stop gaza genocide. |
Friday, April 26, 2024
Princeton hauls off Chris Hedges before he can speak. |
Princeton University, like most universities around the country, is wildly overreacting from its surveillance of student activists to its rush to criminalize the most tepid forms of dissent. This will only fuel the fires of protest. These universities are frightened, not ultimately by the students, but by the clear moral issues these students raise that expose the moral bankruptcy and complicity in mass murder by all of our leading institutions. What these institutions and those who run them have failed to realize is that there is nothing they can do now. They have been exposed for who and what they are.
i read about amina cain in danielle dutton and i remembered i may have met her at home gallery years ago. i think she was a friend of rachel. maybe it was during rachel and my show. i remember asking her about her writing. i remember i was inebriated and embarrassed. seeing how a book directs, can direct, attention to people or other books. i'll read her now. my memory may be an association based on a memory of something i need to revisit.
we recapitulate the crisis, [insofar as crisis is usually associated with and defined in terms of the disruption of the order of things past and the shape of things to come, its usage, application and assumed implications potentially have much to tell us about implicit expectations for the way 'things should be']-sage journal, we cobble together our common uncommon reality.
thought forms can be conscious or unconscious. on the dissimilarity of the similar. i read danielle dutton, prairie, dresses, art, other. she directed me to viktor shklovsky. what is it we want to manifest. i think of the students protesting for peace and justice. in this crisis time, the burning ground, we're all being tested. service is an act of being.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
mostly i smell exhaust, and my eyes get dry and squinty, which causes my brow to furrow, and my frontal lobe to atrophy. i think the air has smelled of exhaust for some time now, and i know i've written about it before, how the smell of exhaust exhausts me. i smell perfume also and tree blossoms and when i put my nose to the dogs they smell like dogs. sometimes i think i might have olfactory hallucinations, but i know they're true.
The roots of Cop City can be traced to the Israeli Urban Warfare Training Center (UWTC), nicknamed “Mini Gaza,” funded with $45 million from the U.S. These training centers are more than mere facilities; they are live testing grounds for strategies deployed against marginalized peoples, whether in occupied Palestine or predominantly Black, working-class, and undocumented communities in Atlanta. The design of these centers reflects a brutal exchange of methodologies that exacerbate violence against oppressed populations to expand and maintain power and domination through any means necessary.
Narek Boyajian and Jadelynn Zhang
how long did the pledge go on? i remember it all through grade school at least. i can still feel my butt on the hard wood seat. being the only one left sitting. it seemed so long that song. i hated the sound. i wanted to crawl out of my skin. i saw the birds through the window on the playground eating snacks. the freight train chugging slowly past. the past stops there in my mind. on recess we wandered onto the tracks and an old coot ran us off saying he'd put his foot up our ass. later i hopped freights from carbondale to chicago, covered in coal dust, and got chased by rail police and locals calling us river rats.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
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