January 2012
17 posts
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don't fetishise the revolutionary other, just give... →
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when sad administer self to softness / debt of thunder / i am sorry
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...
capitalism & suicide again (thanx 2... →
December 2011
8 posts
“To achieve complete freedom from past conditioning is to be in space....”
“OCCUPY LEGISLATION”
The feeling of knowing always comes first through the guts, a cooling and loosening how organs know and how I know and how I am my organs knowing and warming and then cooling, churning and then knowing and then cooling and then churning. The information is feeling, always either more and less or more fully or less fully itself, until I have to go make soup of myself through the pen and I hold...
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SWEEET
John Kinsella follows Alice Oswald’s footsteps in stepping down from the Forward Prize in protest against its being sponsored by an investment management firm.
Oswald, who pulled her collection Memorial from the prize on Tuesday, believes that “poetry should be questioning not endorsing such institutions”.
“Honour the gods and fuck properly”
– Simon Jarvis
November 2011
6 posts
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“Man, I went to this show the other night at Pop’s and the music was so...”
– SHARON MESMER
ALL I HAVE IS THE BODY TO GO ON WHAT is going on in me. There is movement, always more or less sped up or halted, of consciousness, the movement of consciousness is a vibration in constant flux. Separately to this movement, an aspect of poring over the immediate written past and being unable to divine the written future but trying to, as consciousness takes its new dawn, exactly the essence of...
Someone Stabbed America
Hop! Hop! Hope! Hop! Hot off the intractable lithium news source of internet, Sous Les Pavés V & VI is now free to download and hurtfully readable replete with poetry prose and images from the edge of harm, including Linh Dinh’s Collapsing America, which discusses [the US] government[‘]s’ selective use/dismissal of narratives of brutality handily to further whichever of...
choose ur own adventure
a.
This guy was of a certain age and clearly he didn’t react well to being told he was going to have to leave. The security staff are in a right state. It was a gruesome sight.
“TfL employs 25,000 staff and has to cut 20 per cent of them. This is a very stressful time for people.”
b.
The bonus paid to the previous Commissioner, Bob Kiley, was up to a maximum of £285,000...
October 2011
19 posts
“Don’t say: ‘Karma, Karma. My Karma has brought me like this.’ Exert. Exert. ...”
– Sri Swami Sivananda Saraswati, 1937
The Paper Nautilus 2: Frances Kruk, Marianne... →
‘Women are a practical necessity & whoever is not totally practical is here defined as suffering from diminished responsibility’— GRACE LAKE [‘BRAIN SHRINKAGE AND EXPANDED CONSCIOUSNESS’]
Fighting or Camping?
As much as reading the phrase ‘Žižek was right’ makes me hurt, this is interesting (Ben Ehrenreich in the LA Review of Books):
If the cops are being polite and the politicians are eager to make the protesters comfortable, it’s not because they’re nice. It’s because they’re not feeling sufficiently threatened. When several hundred protesters left the City Hall campsite last week,...
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(from CAConrad's 'OIL THIS WAR!')
OIL OIL EVERYWHERE! Write on old shoes, sandwich wrappers, cans, bags, snotty tissues, used condoms, THIS OIL WAR! On an empty bottle of hand lotion OIL THIS WAR! On a cereal box THIS FAGGOT WORLD VICTORIOUS!
Sarkozy bluntly told Cameron: “You have lost a good opportunity to shut up.”
“I ask for so little. Just let me rule you, and you can have everything that you...”
from the joy that is http://tomraworth.com/
you are who you say you are
and you are who you say you are
and you say you are who you are
and you say who you are
the wondership stolen by, ownership
(charles olson, ‘letter 3’)
you can't feed anybody with ideology
Britain is rocking a 17-year high in unemployment this week.
Austerity was a deliberate ideological choice by Prime Minister David Cameron’s ruling coalition of Conservatives and Liberal Democrats, elected 17 months ago. It has failed and can be expected to keep failing. But neither party is yet prepared to acknowledge that reality and change course.
moral bankruptcy →
be humble be humble be humble be humble
be humble be humble be humble be humble be
humble be humblebee humblebee, humble be
humble be humble be humble
Althusser Needs to Eat Some Ice-Cream & Shut...