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May 6, 2013
"Hard to develop the silence and humility necessary for creating good art if you are always yelling..."
- Jim Harrison, the Dalva notebooks
May 5, 2013
Today is Karl Marx’s 195th birthday. I remember the awe...
Today is Karl Marx’s 195th birthday. I remember the awe and gratitude I felt when I first read him in the Mitchell Library in Glasgow nearly 30 years ago.
Hello ! I'm actually doing some work on John Cage, Zen, and D.T Suzuki but I can't find what were the teachings of D.T Suzuki actually. If you could help me maybe ? That'd be nice of you ! Thank you.
Suzuki wrote a number of books, which you can find by clicking here.
There’s also Kay Larson’s book about Cage and Suzuki, Where the Heart Beats. It’s a badly flawed book - the author is more concerned with herself than her subjects - but it’s a useful reference, though it has a number of factual inaccuracies.
"I think the problem is that many people in America think that racism is an attitude. And this is..."
I think the problem is that many people in America think that racism is an attitude. And this is encouraged by the capitalist system. So they think that what people think is what makes them a racist. Racism is not an attitude.
If a white man wants to lynch me, that’s his problem. If he’s got the power to lynch me, that’s my problem. Racism is not a question of attitude; it’s a question of power.
Racism gets its power from capitalism. Thus, if you’re anti-racist, whether you know it or not, yo...
May 4, 2013
Why parents should leave their kids alone
What if the best thing we could do for our children is just to leave them alone? Jay Griffiths on why modern parenting is making our children miserable
The reason I write so much about childhood in my novels and stories is that kids are one of the most oppressed groups, people who can openly be treated as objects, as possessions.
This article by Jay Griffiths suggests something that will be considered extreme in the western world: respecting kids as th...
May 3, 2013
criminalwisdom:
Top, photograph by Irving Klaw, 1950. Via....
Top, photograph by Irving Klaw, 1950. Via. Bottom, photograph by Marc Asnin, from the series and book Uncle Charlie, 2012. Via. More.
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Rules are empty in themselves, violent and unfinalized; they are impersonal and can be bent to any purpose. The success of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules, to replace those who have used them, to disguise themselves so as to perfect them, invert their meaning, and redirect them against those who had initially impose...
May 2, 2013
laphamsquarterly:
“Nay, so great was our famine that a savage...
“Nay, so great was our famine that a savage we slew and buried, the poorer sort took him up again and ate him, and so did diverse one another boiled and stewed with roots and herbs. And one amongst the rest did kill his wife, powdered her, and had eaten part of her before it was known, for which he was executed, as he well deserved; now whether she was better roasted, boiled, or carbonadoed, I know not, but of such a dish as powdered wife I never heard.”
May 1, 2013
From the Statement of Responsibility of Andrew "weev" Auernheimer submitted to the United States District Court prior to his sentencing
Editor’s note:Andrew Auernheimer,also known by his pseudonym weev, is an American grey hat hacker and self-described Internet troll.Follow him on Twitter @rabite. In June of 2010 there was an AT&T webserver on the open Internet. There was an API on this server, a URL with a numbe..
“Ivy league educated and wealthy, Aaron [Swartz] dealt with his indictment so...
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