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ajourneyroundmyskull: turnofthecentury: HB dear Baudelaire...

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:48:59 -0400

turnofthecentury:

HB dear Baudelaire [April 9, 1821 - 1867]

thanks to i12bent

Title page of Baudelaire’s Fleurs du Mal, 1900 ed.

The Sick Muse

My poor muse, alas!, what’s wrong with you this morning?
Your hollow eyes are peopled with nocturnal visions,
And I see madness and horror, cold and taciturn,
Reflected, one after the other, upon your face.

Did the green succubus and the pink goblin
Pour out for you fear and love from their urns?
Did nightmare, with a despotic and obstinate fist,
Drown you in the depths of a fabulous Minturnes?

I would that your breast, exhaling an odor of health,
Be frequented always by forceful thoughts,
And that your Christian blood flow in rhythmic streams,

Like the numerous sounds of antique syllables,
Ruled over, in turn, by Phoebus, father of songs,
And the great Pan, lord of the harvest.

(Trans. by Cat Nilan)

kneecap: (via monsterman)

Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:05:47 -0400

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freshphotons: This image of a woody stem was taken with the...

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:08:57 -0400

freshphotons:

This image of a woody stem was taken with the PAXcam2+ digital microscope camera and an Olympus BX40 compound microscope and transmitted light brightfield illumination, stained with safranin/fast green. Via.

curate: Collateral Murder

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:04:33 -0400

curate:

Collateral Murder

ajourneyroundmyskull: booklover: (via prettybookcovers) I...

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:20:32 -0400

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I love Gorey’s work for Doubleday Anchor.

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Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:03:02 -0500

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Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:22:42 -0500

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lostandfound: Tumblr on vi.sualize.us

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:19:05 -0500

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gingerbreadkaren: Nuit Noire, Calcutta (1964)

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:13:06 -0500

gingerbreadkaren:

Nuit Noire, Calcutta (1964)

lacontessa: Pavel Tchelitchew, Head, 1950. via

Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:02:40 -0500

lacontessa:

Pavel Tchelitchew, Head, 1950.

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"A3N: Many people call Angola Prison a “modern day slave plantation.” Do you think this is a fair..."

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:15:16 -0500

“A3N: Many people call Angola Prison a “modern day slave plantation.” Do you think this is a fair label?

NAH: Absolutely. Angola was and is still is very much a plantation. At 18,000 acres, it is the largest prison in the US—the only prison with its own zip code. Mostly black men are still maintaining the same agricultural activity—planting, hoeing, picking cotton and other crops by hand—that slaves did originally. And they are doing so as captives who are compensated for their back-breaking labor with mere pennies per hour. While Warden Cain may not be Simon Legree, he is still a plantation master—albeit one who uses Christianity as a means of controlling the neo-slave labor under his watch. The very same practices and social control mechanism that existed under slavery persist—just under a new name.
My interest in Angola is as both a paradigm of the Southern transformation of plantations into prisons and as a prototype for what we now call the prison industrial complex. Many old plantations in the South became prisons after the Civil War. Angela Y. Davis traces the initial rise of the penitentiary system to the abolition of slavery, writing: “in the immediate aftermath of slavery, the southern states hastened to develop a criminal justice system that could legally restrict the possibilities of freedom for the newly released slaves.”
Slave Codes became Black Codes and criminalized a range of activities if the perpetrator was black. The newly acquired 15th Amendment right to vote was curtailed by tailoring of felony disenfranchisement laws to include crimes that were supposedly more frequently committed by blacks. And, the liberatory promise of the 13th Amendment – “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall exist in the United States”- contained a dangerous loophole- “except as a punishment for crime”. This allowed for the conversion of the old plantations to penitentiaries, and this, with the introduction of the convict lease system, permitted the South to continue to economically benefit from the unpaid labor of blacks.
The patterns established in the old south have proliferated and expanded throughout the US, as African Americans are disproportionately policed, prosecuted, convicted, disenfranchised and imprisoned in the prison industrial complex. There has been a corresponding shift from de jure racism codified explicitly into the law and to a de facto racism where people of color, especially African Americans, are subject to unequal protection of the laws, excessive surveillance, extreme segregation and neo-slave labor via incarceration—all in the name of “crime control”. It is the current manifestation of the legal legacy of the racialized transformations of plantations into prisons, of Slave Codes into Black Codes, of lynching into state-sponsored executions. The “imputation of crime to color” that Frederick Douglass warned of 125 years ago continues to the present.”

- Visiting A Modern Day Slave Plantation: an interview with Nancy A. Heitzeg (via anthropophagous) (via bonesarecoralmade) (via curate)

Kollage Kid

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:07:05 -0500

Kollage Kid

"Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production...."

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 01:17:59 -0500

“Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don’t think people didn’t know it. They knew it and they fought against it. There was a lot of resistance to mass education for exactly that reason. It was also understood by the elites. Emerson once said something about how we’re educating them to keep them from our throats. If you don’t educate them, what we call “education,” they’re going to take control — “they” being what Alexander Hamilton called the “great beast,” namely the people. The anti-democratic thrust of opinion in what are called democratic societies is really ferocious. And for good reason. Because the freer the society gets, the more dangerous the great beast becomes and the more you have to be careful to cage it somehow.”

- Noam Chomsky (via Giles Bowkett) (via azspot) (via fuckyeahradicalquotes) (via ontologicalterrorist)

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Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:44:04 -0500

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Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:40:44 -0500

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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:16:33 -0500

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Coley Jones Drunkard’s Special

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:58:42 -0500

Coley Jones

Drunkard’s Special

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Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:47:38 -0500

Erin McCarty

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Hans Ulrich Obrist: I just visited Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, who have written an...

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:24:52 -0500

Hans Ulrich Obrist: I just visited Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, who have written an appeal to Barack Obama. What would your appeal and/or advice be to Obama?

Raoul Vaneigem: I refuse to cultivate any relationship whatsoever with people of power. I agree with the Zapatistas from Chiapas who want nothing to do with either the state or its masters, the multinational mafias. I call for civil disobedience so that local communities can form, coordinate, and begin self-producing natural power, a more natural form of farming, and public services that are finally liberated from the scams of government by the Left or the Right. On the other hand, I welcome the appeal by Chamoiseau, Glissant, and their friends for the creation of an existence in which the poetry of a life rediscovered will put an end to the deadly stranglehold of the commodity.

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