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December 30, 2014
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December 22, 2014
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December 07, 2014
Sound/Chest, Coven Press, coming in early 2015.
December 04, 2014
'Nathalie' de Steve Savage. Reçu il y a deux jours. Et...
November 27, 2014
Brandon
November 27, 2014
This is not Jesus.
November 27, 2014
Hi, first of all, I love your blog, but I'm having trouble finding some things you wrote about a while ago. I do remember you writing something about people (I think it was the 1800s?) painting over old paintings, making poc in them look white? I'm writing a small paper about being critical to sources, and thought this would be relevant. And there's also that time you posted about images being used in education having cropped away poc in them. I can't seem to find either of them again D: Help?
November 24, 2014
"It is not easy to become a Marxist-Leninist philosopher. Like every ‘intellectual’, a philosophy..."
November 23, 2014
socialismartnature: (Converted into US dollars).
November 22, 2014
Trying out and practicing various pen brushes.
November 22, 2014
guardian: Paul Ryan and the right want to cut welfare programs....
November 16, 2014
nativefemboy: thartist72: “In 2002, having spent more than...
November 15, 2014
we need to get back into the habit of naming everything internet related "cyber". some suggestions to start us off:
November 14, 2014
theparisreview: Drawings from Leo Tolstoy manuscripts. So when...
November 11, 2014
medievalpoc: via Saladin Ahmed Amen
November 10, 2014
SORRY THIS ISN'T MEDIEVAL BUT CAN I JUST TAKE A MOMENT TO SAY HOW AWESOME IT IS THAT ONE OF THE GREATEST LITERARY MINDS (ARGUABLY) OF RUSSIA WAS BLACK BC I JUST DISCOVERED PUSHKIN AND I AM VERY EXCITED
November 09, 2014
medievalpoc: potootagath: wingleader: wakeupslaves: the-godda...
November 08, 2014
"Existing is plagiarism."
November 04, 2014
La voix déterritorialise. Autour du recueil «Qui s’installe?» | Observatoire de l'imaginaire contemporain
November 02, 2014
What the Flag Says
November 02, 2014
mapsontheweb: Revised Food Stamps % By US state, 1989-2012
November 01, 2014
contemporaryartdaily: Dan Graham at Greene Naftali
October 30, 2014
Beckett redux. 10-minute sketch, straight to ink. Messed up the...
October 29, 2014
Marguerite Duras, for @looktouch. The things one can accomplish...
October 27, 2014
"Du sollst zum Aug der Fremden: bei dans Passer" Paul Celan...
October 26, 2014
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October 26, 2014
Because you shouldn’t have #inktober without Samuel...
October 25, 2014
#inktober #kuretakeinktober
October 24, 2014
Ended up w working some more on a failed drawing. Detail....
October 24, 2014
Blargh. Not a fan of this brush anymore. #inktober
October 24, 2014
Failed #inktober drawing
October 23, 2014
“Part of the success of this rhetoric traces to the fact that there is no consensus about the meaning of ‘terrorism.’” But to the extent the term has any common understanding, it includes the deliberate (or wholly reckless) targeting of civilians with violence for political ends. But in this case in Canada, it wasn’t civilians who were targeted. If one believes the government’s accounts of the incident, the driver waited two hours until he saw a soldier in uniform. In other words, he seems to have deliberately avoided attacking civilians, and targeted a soldier instead – a member of a military that is currently fighting a war. Again, the point isn’t justifiability. There is a compelling argument to make that undeployed soldiers engaged in normal civilian activities at home are not valid targets under the laws of war (although the U.S. and its closest allies use extremely broad and permissive standards for what constitutes legitimate military targets when it comes to their own violence). The point is that targeting soldiers who are part of a military fighting an active war is completely inconsistent with the common usage of the word “terrorism,” and yet it is reflexively applied by government officials and media outlets to this incident in Canada (and others like it in the UK and the US). That’s because the most common functional definition of “terrorism” in Western discourse is quite clear. At this point, it means little more than: “violence directed at Westerners by Muslims” (when not used to mean “violence by Muslims,” it usually just means: violence the state dislikes). The term “terrorism” has become nothing more than a rhetorical weapon for legitimizing all violence by Western countries, and delegitimizing all violence against them, even when the violence called “terrorism” is clearly intended as retaliation for Western violence. This is about far more than semantics. It is central to how the west propagandizes its citizenries; the manipulative use of the “terrorism” term lies at heart of that. As Professor Kapitan wrote yesterday in The New York Times: Even when a definition is agreed upon, the rhetoric of “terror” is applied both selectively and inconsistently. In the mainstream American media, the “terrorist” label is usually reserved for those opposed to the policies of the U.S. and its allies. By contrast, some acts of violence that constitute terrorism under most definitions are not identified as such — for instance, the massacre of over 2000 Palestinian civilians in the Beirut refugee camps in 1982 or the killings of more than 3000 civilians in Nicaragua by “contra” rebels during the 1980s, or the genocide that took the lives of at least a half million Rwandans in 1994. At the opposite end of the spectrum, some actions that do not qualify as terrorism are labeled as such — that would include attacks by Hamas, Hezbollah or ISIS, for instance, against uniformed soldiers on duty. Historically, the rhetoric of terror has been used by those in power not only to sway public opinion, but to direct attention away from their own acts of terror. At this point, “terrorism” is the term that means nothing, but justifies everything. It is long past time that media outlets begin skeptically questioning its usage by political officials rather than mindlessly parroting it."
October 23, 2014
sourcedumal: sandandglass: Bryan Stevenson on The Daily...
October 21, 2014
Note for later: Do not cross-hatch the face this much at this...
October 21, 2014
Grant Morrison making a reference to Philip Larkin. Which very...
October 21, 2014
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October 21, 2014
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October 20, 2014
Okay, this is better. #inktober #kuretakeinktober #kuretakebrush
October 20, 2014
Blah. #inktober #kuretakeinktober
October 20, 2014
mapsontheweb: Old World Language Families Map
October 19, 2014
Zinedine Zidane. Went a little heavy handed with the shadows....
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