Friday, August 21, 2026


We have to dream. Jonathan Ofir wrote today about time and music, relativity. And James Elkins wrote about literature and precedents. At the graveyard I thought about the relative time sense of birds. In the sense of wonder it seems there is no time. I thought how perhaps that's the time of birds, or other animals who live according to nature. Precedents are like dreams. Some of us recall them and some don't, but the dreams are inevitable and move with us, perhaps like birds in the periphery. I was going to say something, or rather write something. And then, and then... somebody said about my collage that it was like a story, but the story was just, and then... 

Do we dream for others. I think yes. I think that's what music, film, writing, basket-weaving, nests, oh, all art forms, are. Dreaming. We must be dreaming.


 Gaza is the test. We are next. 

         —Francesca Albanese


 






Apartheid is a political cancer that metastasizes when left untreated,  and the current genocidal onslaught in Gaza is the terminal stage of a disease the imperial core has deliberately refused to cure. Like a festering wound, it is spreading its poison into our shared humanity.

The rot of this genocide is under our skin, deeply embedded in the systemic infrastructure of our universities, pension funds, and tech contracts that quietly bankroll the slaughter of innocents. It is a grim truth that our comfortable lives are subsidised by a dodgy financial architecture built on blood.


The global military-industrial complex is using the Palestinian people as non-consensual test subjects, field-testing automated slaughter technologies to eventually fuel lucrative arms deals worldwide. It is a cynical enterprise, treating humans like disposable collateral in a maze of hellfire missiles and algorithmic death.


The Trust Fall


So many bizarre and insane things are happening, I can't even list, let alone fathom. They're tearing apart everything that exists, killing people with utter abandon. Ruled by monsters who gleefully murder the earth. I don't get it. Are humans committed to mass extinction? But why!? 

 


 Song of the Day, Cicadas for Mangione, from the album System Crash Tools, by futura cimice.