February 2012
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* * I N F O R M A T I O N Q U E S T I O N * *
(This kinda follows on from thinking about that Rob Horning quote about privacy and being bourgeois, and whether or not it’s a bad idea to let Google keep all of your electronic communications on its servers.) If a given opinion is the same opinion as the opinion that the Corporation would want you to have, how do you make sure that you want it because it’s in your best interests,...
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“It is your duty, your destiny, to become data; how selfish of you to think...”
– Rob Horning (via rawbbie)
well?! dunno how i feel about this. am i just being a precious narcissist when i decide to stand up for the abstraction of privacy by phasing out my google account and replacing it with a private one, or do i have good reasons for wanting certain informations should be...
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POEM OF THE DAY 100212 →
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POEM OF THE DAY 090212 →
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“Recent research by the sociologists Erica Chenoweth, Maria Stephan, and Sharon...”
– The Moscow Times
poem of the day nearly killed me today, i’m not kidding. it’s like a maze of envelopes made of snakeskin full of red letters written in gold ink that don’t say anything, it’s like punching a mirror til a blade comes out. it’s like doing push-ups in the library to find the book that i must go and read. poem of the day is like a consolidation of muscles, as if...
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Relativity
Syria: ‘Dozens killed’ in renewed Homs shelling > US ‘disgusted’ at Syria UN veto > US Searches for Strategy to Halt Syria Violence > US drone-fired missiles kill 9 people in northwest Pakistan
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“It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something...”
– Nietzsche, from Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
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REVOLUTIONesque →
poems eat them slurp uncouth
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“What’s Rubbish In Time Is New In Yr Foreplay: GWILLY EDMONDEZ”
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0xbq7m_WtI&
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WatchWillow O’Feral’s SNAILS: magic/errant snails/dancing girls/forest percussion/mysteries/dreamscapes
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BLEU BARRY MUFFINS YAH
THESE ARE F*CK*NG S*CK
Egg-free Blueberry Muffins
2 cups all-purpose flour 1 cup sugar 4 tsp baking powder 1 cup milk 3 tbsp melted butter 1 cup fresh blueberries Heat oven to 180C. Rub a 12-muffin tin with coconut oil. Combine flour, sugar and baking powder. Stir in milk and melted butter. Fold in the blueberries so they don’t burst. Fill each cup 2/3 full. Bake for 25 minutes. YOUR...
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WatchPOEM OF THE DAY 040212
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A I M E E H E R M A N →
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poem of the day 030212 →
_killhistory
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POEM OF THE DAY 020212 →
‘A POEM TO SHOUT IN A PLACE’
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it is not that the books have the answers
it is that reading books has answers
which stagger along the fence
continue openly to be dumb
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poem of the day 010212 →
i’ve decided to do poem a day for all of this month. subjectivity liberated from the imperatives of purposive activity. too weary to type exclamation marks.
January 2012
20 posts
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Poem 310112
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA1bNj9J2hQ
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the usefulness of placelessness
I went to hear Iain Sinclair’s talk at University College Falmouth today on the subject of place in literature. He covered a range of authors particularly interested in locality, including Herman Melville, Charles Olson, James Joyce, Ed Dorn, and T.S. Eliot, and anchored his talk around the construction of the new 2012 Olympic site in Greenwich.
The talk had a sort of wandering structure,...
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have you cried recently? is your heart all sticky... →
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don't fetishise the revolutionary other, just give... →
for the next month, all U.S. dollahz proceeds from sales of Amy De’Ath’s poetry pamphlet CARIBOU will go to Occupy Oakland to support them in their new venture. GO HERE to get yourself some poetry with a side order of SMASH THE STATE. or, uh, non-violent protest. or however you wanna call it.
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when sad administer self to softness / debt of thunder / i am sorry
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birdengine asked: why is it that cannot lay an egg?
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Watch
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“Having participated in past protests by the Writers’ Union of Canada on...”
– http://thetyee.ca/Books/2012/01/23/Fred-Wah-Poet-Laureate/
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Damn, it done changed. Back when our program was...
yo imma talk some trash for three minutes now about Keston Sutherland’s Hot White Andy (go give it your precious time here because all critique is an order of fascination, right) because it seems as though being Pissed Off is the primary reason for me blogging anything at the moment and well, i’m temporarily Pissed Off now that it has suddenly occurred to me that the section where KS...
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“ICE-COLD BITCHES MELT DOWN WHEN IN THE CLUTCH”
– method man / raekwon / Ice Cream
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GENIUS DOESN'T STEAL, ASSHOLE STEALS
i’m totally fed up of discovering sneaky theft in literature of other literature, you always hear that refrain about how geniuses steal but if you ask me its tons and tons of bullshit - geniuses don’t steal, ASSHOLES STEAL. jacques rancière, you ASSHOLE, you nonchalantly chiefed a crucial passage in Plato’s Phaedrus for your stupid pointless tree-wasting masterpiece Politics and...
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Socrates Describes Your Ex-Boyfriend
The boy is forced to follow with indignant cries to heaven, still not realising the fundamental truth; he should not in the first place have yielded to a lover, to a man necessarily out of his mind; a non-lover, a man perfectly in his senses, is what it should have been. The wrong choice means surrendering oneself to a man who is disloyal, bad-tempered, jealous, offensive, harmful to one’s...
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there ought to be no limits in language. which means that Ed Dorn may say what he likes about the gutter but it also means that i may say fuck him as freely as i like. but this extends into other things, other social things other than poems
(which are social things).
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who in the hell what in the hell what in the... →
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free poetry
i just found these recordings of readings from the Poetry Project Marathon at St Mark’s Church in New York City on New Year’s Day 2012 which i had the good fortune to attend, i hesitate to say anything about it at all at least partly because i am still shy of the personal a, and b because there are facets of the personal which are really magnificently uninteresting and horrendous i...
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capitalism & suicide again (thanx 2... →
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December 2011
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“To achieve complete freedom from past conditioning is to be in space....”
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“OCCUPY LEGISLATION”