Mat Laporte's Blog, page 32

cassandragillig:bhanu kapil at harvard(after telling a story...

cassandragillig:

bhanu kapil at harvard

(after telling a story about a kid who was a part of a hyper conservative youth league & who wld empty out & piss in the milk bottles of families in the neighborhood)

culturite:Jackie Wang, Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and...

culturite:

Jackie Wang, Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Safety [PDF]

“Innocence…is just code for nonthreatening to white civil society.”

"The first rule of poetry is honesty; the second rule is fuck you."

“The first rule of poetry is honesty; the second rule is fuck you.”

- Alice Notely (via vegan-pearl)

cassandragillig:bernadette “burnitdown” mayer won an award fr sonnets today & her acceptance...

cassandragillig:

bernadette “burnitdown” mayer won an award fr sonnets today & her acceptance speech was “im hungry”

magictransistor:Dado. I Boukoko, Le Boucher of Saint-Nicolas,...

magictransistor:

Dado. I Boukoko, Le Boucher of Saint-Nicolas, Boukoko II, At the City of Saint-Denis. 1974-1976.

from Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive...

from Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body, and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

Despite, Kevin Davies first book, published 1982.

Despite, Kevin Davies first book, published 1982.

lazz:what’s so fucked up is that the world has us thinking we have to prove that we are...

lazz:

what’s so fucked up is that the world has us thinking we have to prove that we are lovable 

i.e. if i show i’m attractive, talented, and self-contained enough i’ll be rewarded with community and adoration

and that is a bottomless pit 

of self-loathing, of striving, of unrequited effort

can you prove you are lovable? 

if not, what makes a person love you and can you encourage it?

do you just wait for it to happen?

we have no other way to conceive of loving each other unless we get return on our investments 

everybody thinks “can i afford this”

cost/benefit analysis

which seems to make sense because people can be so depraved & heartless

part of the problem is that social contact has to be so intentional

maybe if it wasn’t, time would do the work?

maybe the little things revealed in duration wouldn’t be crowded out by bigger personality

i don’t know anything

but i’ve been thinking about “public feelings” of the 2010s and “deficit” and “self-exaggeration in hopes ppl will love you” are some of them 

soliciting additions

Kevin Davies first book/chapbook

Kevin Davies first book/chapbook

“The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way...

“The coalition emerges out of your recognition that it’s fucked up for you, in the same way that we’ve already recognized that it’s fucked up for us. I don’t need your help. I just need you to recognize that this shit is killing you, too, however much more softly, you stupid motherfucker, you know?”  - The Undercommons