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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....
October 19, 2014
theparisreview: Stephen Spender self-portrait. “The only...
October 18, 2014
#inktober
October 18, 2014
From Hawkeye, vol. 1, My Life As A Weapon
October 18, 2014
alexdecampi: CBR is running a 6-page preview of Grindhouse 2.1...
October 17, 2014
#inktober
October 17, 2014
#inktober
October 17, 2014
mapsontheweb: Brazilian States by #1 Export, 2014
October 16, 2014
Steph Curry #inktober #tombowbrush #pigmamicron
October 16, 2014
theparisreview: “Drawing is a sensual act, which you cannot say...
October 15, 2014
#inktober
October 14, 2014
#inktober #kuretakeinktober #kuretakebrush
October 13, 2014
In which I discover my #kuretakebrush is not empty. #inktober...
October 13, 2014
actionbookspress: Joe Milazzo responded to Johannes’s previous...
October 12, 2014
Because superheroes look better in skateboards. #inktober...
October 12, 2014
#inktober #kurotakebrush #pentelpocketbrush #hunt103nib
October 11, 2014
#inktober #pentelpocketbrush #huntnibs
October 10, 2014
Rather amazing how you notice all the flaws of your drawing after you photographed it. Does it also...
October 10, 2014
#inktober #pentelpocketbrush #kurotakebrush #bart
October 10, 2014
What Sleeping Dogs Gets So Right About Being An Asian American
October 10, 2014
questionall: Sorry gang, you can’t scream about ebola, but also...
October 09, 2014
If anyone can tell me of a good eraser… #inktober
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