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""The appellation of the Forgotten War is not accidental; what is commemorated ... in the US serves to sustain imperialist interests. This pattern is not unique to Korea and manifests in discourses about many ongoing sites of liberation struggle. In Palestine, for example, through this lens of selective forgetting and remembering, occupation is framed as 'conflict' and acts of resistance are framed as terrorism"
BARS" — Mar 24, 2026 09:20AM
""The appellation of the Forgotten War is not accidental; what is commemorated ... in the US serves to sustain imperialist interests. This pattern is not unique to Korea and manifests in discourses about many ongoing sites of liberation struggle. In Palestine, for example, through this lens of selective forgetting and remembering, occupation is framed as 'conflict' and acts of resistance are framed as terrorism"
BARS" — Mar 24, 2026 09:20AM
“Ideas and opinions are not spontaneously "born" in each individual brain: they have had a centre of formation, or irradiation, of dissemination, of persuasion-a group of men, or a single individual even, which has developed them and presented them in the political form of current reality.”
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
― Selections from the Prison Notebooks
“I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun.”
― The Stream of Life
― The Stream of Life
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
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“Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.”
― Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
― Memórias póstumas de Brás Cubas
“There is no antidote, he writes, against the opium of time. The winter sun shows how soon the light fades from the ash, how soon night enfolds us. Hour upon hour is added to the sum. Time itself grows old. Pyramids, arches and obelisks are melting pillars of snow. Not even those who have found a place amidst the heavenly constellations have perpetuated their names: Nimrod is lost in Orion, and Osiris in the Dog Star. Indeed, old families last not three oaks.”
― The Rings of Saturn
― The Rings of Saturn
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