"We need to slow down. Block the machine. Punch holes in the present to throw open up a temporal multiplicity. Go somewhere else/ this can be accomplished by secretly fashioning a soul for ourselves through our encounter with other souls"

“a garden is a message, reflecting human desires and the search for an ideal state”

always.

Nazism “energized a whole series of connections between the individual and the mass, through the intermediaries of the different segments of the social machine (the party, the army, the family). It made connections tranversally, like a rhizome, cutting across existing divisions”

“Murray says this is why Melonking.net looks the way it does: “I wanted to code it badly and I wanted it to be crammed with low quality images. I wanted it to be unexplained and inaccessible because the world desperately wants to explain and define everything, and you must not let it!”

“We are so often presented with a marketable notion of identity—as static, extractable, something that can be bought and sold. How do we refuse this commodification and orient ourselves instead toward well-being in our relationships?”

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

Bluesky is very hostile towards its own user base, highly recommend moving over to @blackskyweb.xyz they have an easy migration tool, @rude1.blacksky.team has graciously allowed open sign ups and make sure you are donating as well, open your purse opencollective.com/blacksky

next up ✍🏽 (always so/too much to say 😔)

new pr 🤪: 180 🏋🏽‍♂️

"liberal states were able to perfect fascist policies & allow them to be deployed even within a democratic framework, been able to build an industry around crime & insecurity as justifications for the establishment of these policies/ latent fascisms rely on preexisting democratic legal frameworks”

living so quietly, letting myself unleash in america

"What would it mean to reject, as an ethical imperative, ontological grounds of legibility/ to reject things given to us as our existence even though theyre violences-racial identities predicated on racial distinction & taxonomies, gender identities predicated on gender distinction & gender binary?"

Fuck it, I love you II

“The economic growth brought about by modernization promised us a richer lifestyle. But the ironic truth revealed by environmental danger posed by the Anthropocene is that economic growth itself is what is destroying the very basis of what humans need to thrive” Kōhei Saitō The degrowth manifesto

Once you really internalize this, all the little ways in which we in go about trying to repair our current society, appear as so many efforts to prolong its genocidal capacities. Every instance of good is colored by the abyss of mass murder which stands beneath it in support.

“social world of porn theaters contrasted with narrowed visions of user categorization, patrons formed idiosyncratic bonds that could only emerge in a complex physical env how might we redesign safe digital public spaces that allow us to experience life with more beauty, vulnerability, & pleasure?”

If you don’t like Bluesky the company’s policies there’s wholly separate projects to support like @transrights.northsky.social or @blackskyweb.xyz with different moderation, clients, servers, and policies. Protocols like ATproto or Activitypub or Nostr etc give you choice.

excellent episode: "desire plays a really important role in reproducing the myths of the bourgeois state. People take comfort in all that the state promises. We take comfort in the fantasy that we can escape the particularities of our private life, of our gender, our race, our sexuality”

“By occupation of the senses, I refer to technologies that manage language, sight, sound, time & space in the colony; the settler colony uses sensory stimuli in a confrontational manner & with the aim of invading the realm of experience of the colonized” https://www.sci-hub.ren/10.1093/bjc/azw066

“Fascism worked well w capitalism until economic imperatives became a prob/ Nazis modeled themselves after capitalism, but they changed/ created a line of production to produce death, not surplus-value or profit/ profit for Nazis, eventually, was death, if they could earn money along the way, great”

“Finding the story of yourself is hard work. You could invest inward, into knowing what your voice is for and how you want to use it, before you allow it to be *contorted* to the language of the universal poetry machine”

i did not know any of this about Bluesky but only people’s opinions. now i know

vitamin 🍋

Covers how our Researching Unmet Needs study helps public media re-solidify/find their place in a changing media landscape “Most striking finding is general population’s low awareness of public radio/ pr hasn’t needed to explain to the broader public who we are & why we’re different” @current.org

“Morena built power being led by the ppl most harmed by previous order US progressives should be studying this rupture. While US left remains trapped within the institutional & ineffectual machinery of Democratic Party, Mexico’s left broke free. It didn’t beg for permission. It built something new”

Two conversational streams are crossing (in my mind) so I'll say: I learned researching community radio stations built in rural places that "red state" stereotypes don't account for actual complexity therein, including people banding together across political lines & "blue" "counterpublics" therein

my first pub to get 100 citations 😈 “Locating explanations in categories allows categories to act as scapegoats for the social practices (such as racism, racialization, or gendering) that are actually producing the consequences and illusory naturalness of categories in the first place”

today: first ring muscle up attempt ever: success 🤩 (total accident) second attempt: twisted my arms & sprained my shoulder 🥹(while class watched) balance.

The longer I've been outside of academia, the clearer I've seen how the discipline does disciplining...

“Although implicit bias theory appears to be drilling down to a deeper conceptual level, it presents a superficial understanding of racism/ misrecognizes the nature of racism & thus underestimates the scale of breach to be crossed through anti-racist agitation/ & inept in dealing w racist violence”

you say you can hear it willing in spirit but flesh and bone is weak

“What does it mean for one’s citizenship to depend on the violence of deportation in order to have meaning? Can we imagine forms of citizenship that do not require violence in order to have meaning? What are ways that citizens can ethically participate in realizing this change?”

Because visibility — “having been counted” — is at the heart of AI and Empire, it’s a contradiction with art. “Having been measured” is what creates and binds the possibilities of AI images, the most interesting bits are when we surface whatever abstractions lay beyond what gets / can be “counted”

“to destitute is not primarily to attack the institution, but to attack the need we have of it/ The first moment in a destituent gesture is a refusal, but it is important to understand that what is being refused is not the substance of a given institution; it is the form of the institution”

taps sign

fave tote

“Western man is the first human being in the history of the world to totally inhabit a commodity-culture. Humanism has ended in its negation. Men have become the objects they have created. Western man creates his Being as a thing" - Sylvia Wynter, Ethnio or Sociopoetics

“identity is not an innocent description; [it] is a normative regime resting on an assumptive coherence, knowability, and nonporousness/ race, gender, sexuality are imposed ontologies, we are not permitted to appear or exist without them/ This disallows so much that we might be or could have been”

“what does it mean to assert an impossible life? When one wishes to live that impossibility & enact radical change, it is difficult to do when the world is unwelcoming & hostile to such change, deeming one unrealistic, wrong, too-fast-too-soon, detached from material realities”

"Theres a void in US revolutionary thought/ What has filled this void is BIPOC radicalism, a set of tendencies, patterns of acting & feeling, & ideologies which falsely claim to represent all non-white and western revolutionary perspectives. This politics serves as a brake on revolutionary activity"

"An absolute must-read for anyone that cares about technology and trans liberation." — @alexhanna.bsky.social "Trans Technologies" by Dr. Oliver Haimson is available now and #openaccess: mitpress.mit.edu/978026255186... @haimson.bsky.social

🇲🇽 esoo

“fascism unfolds in culture as an expanding aestheticization of annihilation, cultivating a society which is ever more captivated by images of its own desolation, inviting everyone to search for new ways of life in spectacles of death.”

Glimmers ✍🏽 projections visual doubles, in and out of view glimmering as distant objects pass anchored to the real but dazzles even more

groove is in the ❤️

cuz listen after the fall, there’ll be no more countries, no currencies at all

Draft finally finished ✨

"unless we are willing to deal with the capitalist mode of production itself, all a nation suffering from backsliding can hope for “is the artificial setting up of a ‘capitalist democracy’ which, if left to itself, will move rapidly back into its former position”