the wanting is less interesting

• 2013-05-21

  

  wind did this

• 2013-05-20

  "So well done Tumblrers, showing us how much you care has made some people very rich."

  lazz:

  Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1 Billion

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  Activists from women’s rights group Femen burn a barbie doll on a cross outside a “Barbie Dreamhouse” of Mattel’s Barbie dolls in Berlin, May 16, 2013. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski

• 2013-05-17

• 2013-05-14

  i hate dialectics / culture industry you win / no i win / no one fucking wins

  i just have two things to say.  because i am so hot and bothered by the media insanity overload today.  regarding a quote from this article, written in defense of angelina jolie, on the double mastectomy thing:

  “What we talk about when we talk about celebrities is, as ever, ourselves.“ 
  

  first - NO.  because a celebrity is a product.  it is an economic relationship between corporate entities that is mistaken for a social relationship between humans.  we think we are relating to celebrities as we would to someone we meet at a party, or someone who lives in our community, or etc.  but celebrities are constructions, mirages, images suspended in clouds of marketing.  thus, the preventive double mastectomy of a person within a community is a scary surgical procedure.  a new york times article about a preventive double mastectomy is a product.

  second - YES.  because i see everything anyone famous ever says as both belonging to them and belonging in the public eye, part construction and part projected self.  this means that i see angelina jolie’s projection of care, suffering, and familial love as a product, carefully tailored to ensure that her image will be read in a specific way. and when i am talking about this i am talking about myself because i am a poet, always navigating the bullshit but totally real line dividing the real self who writes, and the product that is made to be consumed.  i still think that poetry has a chance to be made of real self.  if i didn’t believe that i would not be able to write at all.  but it is a slim one, and always running hard to escape, and bullshit is an ever-present and very real possibility.  dear frank o’hara, how did you always manage to escape.

  but maybe there are so many more things to say.  how i am so stirred by all the women immediately rushing to defend this as a women’s rights issue.  BECAUSE IT IS.  because it provokes people into making extreme statements, either about a woman’s breasts or about her hunger for fame.  but how can it only be that, when it is also about how we swallow certain kinds of products without even knowing that we’re practically choking.

• 2013-05-07

  A Fiery Flying Roule:: Keston Sutherland | THESES ON ANTISUBJECTIVIST DOGMA

  it is a nice rhetorical touch here to bring in ‘the conceptualists’ (a pretty varied bunch) as the other half of this imagined binary, but all that notwithstanding, i don’t know what makes anyone think that anyone needs to hear yet more poetry in which foregrounded is ONE talking about ONESELF from ONE’S OWN PERSPECTIVE.

  in an argument based on binaries, the stronger rhetorician always wins.  that’s it.

  afieryflyingroule:

  1. Arguments against the dominant role of the subject or of “subjectivity” in art have existed for as long as the art they reject. “Anti-subjectivist” accounts of art are “Romantic” in origin and were first asserted contemporaneously with the “subjectivist” accounts of art which they are usually…

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• 2013-05-04

  

  the crimes that fall / the crimes that rise

• 2013-05-03

  

  Source: lunch-poems

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  bummer

• 2013-05-02