January 2012
2 posts
Judith Butler on Peace
I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. It does not mean that we do not have murderous impulses. This is a mistaken way of...
InTensions 5: (De)Fatalizing the Present and... →
james-bliss:
I almost jumped out my chair just now!
New essays from Frank B. Wilderson, III, Jared Sexton, and Tamara K. Nopper, among others.
December 2011
3 posts
“The specificity of the language is sometimes necessary because quite often the...”
– dorothy allison, notes to a young feminist (via negationparty)
“Try standing at a party of queer friends and charting all the histories, sexual...”
– Michael Warner (1999) The Trouble with Normal (via bodkins)
i don’t actually want to take on the task of teaching people how to define and/or expand their language and experiences concerning relationships, connections, and bonds but i like this quote. it makes me think of how intentional i have...
“When you removed the gag that was keeping these black mouths shut, what were you...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, Black Orpheus (via allxsouledxout)
November 2011
5 posts
From "Feminism, Finance and the Future of #Occupy... →
suzy-x:
MH: Is feminism critical for this movement, and how so?
SF: Feminism is still critical for this movement on several grounds, and I am encouraged by the fact that many young women today identify themselves as feminists, despite a tendency in past years to dismiss feminism as merely “identity politics.”
First, many of the issues that were at the origins of the women’s movement have not...
History Is A Weapon →
adailyriot:
jhameia:
A site with free ebooks (and readable on mobiles too, it seems) on a long history of radical activism within the United States (and also internationally). From their Starter page:
If you aren’t dealing with a particular question, feel free to work your way through all the starter essays and head back to the issues that stirred you the most. Here we go:
What is this...
“But it is also true that ghosts are never innocent: the unhallowed dead of the...”
– Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination (via multitudes)
“…knowledge is not made for understanding; it is made for cutting.”
– foucault
nietzsche, genealogy, history
(via poopsmoothie)
“Deconstruction, if one wants a formula, is among other things, a persistent...”
– gayatri spivak (via noteasybeingred)
June 2011
3 posts
“P.S. I forgot, you are quite right: one of the paradoxes of destination, is that...”
– Jacques Derrida, The Post Card
“The word police normally evokes what is known as the petty police, the truncheon...”
– Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy (via lowendtheory)
May 2011
2 posts
“The main topic I’d like to talk about today, however, is language and violence....”
– Mary Louise Pratt, ‘Violence and Language’ (via subashini)
PROUD FLESH INTER/VIEWS: SYLVIA WYNTER
hystericalblackness:
You see, it’s not just an intellectual struggle. You could call it a psycho-intellectual struggle. Then you could understand why in the ’60s it wasn’t just a call for Black Studies; it was a call for Black Aesthetics, it was a call for Black Art(s), it was a call for Black Power. It was an understanding that, as Lewis Gordon has been the first to keep insisting, we live in...
April 2011
1 post
“…all our present struggles with respect to race, class, gender, sexual...”
– Sylvia Wynter, ‘Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation–An Argument.’ CR: The New Centennial Review, 3:3, (Fall 2003): 260-261
(via demonicground)
March 2011
7 posts
“The struggle of our new millennium will be one between the ongoing imperative of...”
– Sylvia Wynter, On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory, and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness of Being, of Desêtre: Black Studies Toward the Human Project (via beautone)
seedy: Walter Benjamin Essay Collection →
c-d:
Download
1940 Survey of French Literature.pdf Central Park.pdf Critique of Violence.pdf Doctrine of the Similar (1933).pdf Eduard Fuchs - Collector and Historian.pdf Goethe - The Reluctant Bourgeois.pdf Goethe’s Elective Affinities.pdf Lichtenberg - A Cross Section.pdf Moscow Diary.pdf …
“Perhaps…one mourns when one accepts that by the loss one undergoes one will be...”
– Judith Butler
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence
(via lifefromscratch)
The first rule of Tautology Club is the first rule...
raptoravatar:
True statement is true.
“To be recognized as a feminist is to be assigned to a difficult category and a...”
– Sara Ahmed, The Promise of Happiness (via jeevermadness)
“How are new forms of bonded labor engendered by the vocabulary of freedom? Is an...”
– Saidiya Hartman, Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America (via lowendtheory)
“The effect is that many well-meaning people no longer have the capacity to...”
– Lewis Gordon - The Market Colonization of Intellectuals (via beautone)
February 2011
3 posts
“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is...”
– Audre Lorde (via oyegitana)
“I have the people behind me and the people are my strength.”
– Huey P (via awomansplaceisinthestruggle)
“The present itself is but a moment of vision—vision of the freedom not yet come....”
– J.-A. Mbembé (translated by Libby Meintjes), Necropolitics. (via notablynovelty)
January 2011
11 posts
“Sometimes while I ride the subway I try to look at each person and imagine what...”
– Dean Spade. For Lovers and Fighters. http://www.makezine.enoughenough.org/newpoly2.html (via avry)
“Advocating the mere tolerance of difference between women is the grossest...”
– Audre Lorde
To all the multiculturalists (in my life), read up.
(via bollywoodsuperstar)
Theory Reaches Root
“Theory is capable of gripping the masses as soon as it demonstrates ad hominem, and it demonstrates ad hominem as soon as it becomes radical. To be radical is to grasp things by the root. But the root for humans is humanity itself.”- karl marx
“In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and...
“[T]he temporal anomaly within nationalism—veering between nostalgia for the past...”
– Anne McClintock - Imperial Leather, 1995 (via sexartandpolitics)
“What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive,...”
– Excerpt from “Where Do We Go From Here?”, Martin Luther King Jr., 1967 (via bookandbolo)
The Marxist Hypothesis →
mxmlsm:
“If Marx is mistaken for an affirmer and promulgator of “communism” as opposed to what he actually was, its most incisive critic (from within), we risk forgetting the most important if fragile achievement of history: the consciousness of potential in capital. As Marx wrote early on, in an 1843 letter to Arnold Ruge that called for the “ruthless criticism of everything existing,”...
“But a deeper reason for coolness between the countries is this: Haiti is black,...”
– Frederick Douglass, Lecture on Haiti (January 2, 1893)
kiriamaya:
In the early eighties, there was a report, written for the US Government, called Technology on the Social and Ethical Aspects of Transsexual Surgery. This report argued that transition-related treatments were medically unnecessary. As a result, consideration of federal and state aid for trans people was dropped, and private insurance companies quickly followed suit, disingenuously...
“On capacity, I think Ng’ethe Meina of Social Justice Leadership said it best in...”
– Morgan Bassichis (via theredtree)
“The fact that Native societies were egalitarian 500 years ago is not stopping...”
– Andrea Smith, Indigenous feminism without apology (via readnfight)
December 2010
2 posts
“First, we have to ask what Western liberal values we may be unreflectively...”
– Lila Abu-Lughod, (2001). Orientalism and Middle East Feminist Studies, Feminist Studies 27 (1), p. 105. (via umnica)
“To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value...”
– June Jordan (via sistargirl)
November 2010
7 posts
“In African studies, historically and currently, the creation, constitution and...”
– Oyeronke Oyewumi | The White Woman’s Burden: African Women in Western Feminist Discourse” (2004)
This appeared on my dashboard as I sit at my desk with Oyewumi’s ‘The Invention of Women’ beside me. Just cannot escape this paper…
(via first-taste) (via dancingonembers) (via leonineclaire)
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“When I dare to be powerful—to use my strength in the service of my vision, then...”
– Audre Lorde: Black, queer feminist, activist, teacher, poet (via montythebronty, montythebronty)
“We allow justly that the Holocaust has permanently altered the consciousness of...”
– Edward Said, in the Preface to Orientalism (via trastorn)
“Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is strong.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Genealogy of Morals
“”For isn’t it odd that the only language I have in which to speak of this crime...”
– A Small Place, Jamaica Kincaid (via ancestryinprogress)
“O Voltaire! O humanity! O nonsense! There is something to “truth,” to the search...”
– Nietzsche (via syeda)
October 2010
13 posts
“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race, because they...”
– Gloria Steinem
“If you are not coming to put into question everything you do, I don’t see why...”
– Lacan
“Behind every fascism, there is a failed revolution.”
– Walter Benjamin
“Within current debates about race and difference, mass culture is the...”
– bell hooks Black Looks, Race and Representation via knitzilla. (via tobia)