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Beckett redux. 10-minute sketch, straight to ink. Messed up the...

Marguerite Duras, for @looktouch. The things one can accomplish...

"Du sollst zum Aug der Fremden: bei dans Passer" Paul Celan...

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Because you shouldn’t have #inktober without Samuel...

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Ended up w working some more on a failed drawing. Detail....

Blargh. Not a fan of this brush anymore. #inktober

Failed #inktober drawing

“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."

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Note for later: Do not cross-hatch the face this much at this...

Grant Morrison making a reference to Philip Larkin. Which very...

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Okay, this is better. #inktober #kuretakeinktober #kuretakebrush

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mapsontheweb: Old World Language Families Map

Zinedine Zidane. Went a little heavy handed with the shadows....

theparisreview: Stephen Spender self-portrait. “The only...

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From Hawkeye, vol. 1, My Life As A Weapon

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mapsontheweb: Brazilian States by #1 Export, 2014

Steph Curry #inktober #tombowbrush #pigmamicron

theparisreview: “Drawing is a sensual act, which you cannot say...

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In which I discover my #kuretakebrush is not empty. #inktober...

actionbookspress: Joe Milazzo responded to Johannes’s previous...

Because superheroes look better in skateboards. #inktober...

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Rather amazing how you notice all the flaws of your drawing after you photographed it. Does it also...

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What Sleeping Dogs Gets So Right About Being An Asian American

questionall: Sorry gang, you can’t scream about ebola, but also...

If anyone can tell me of a good eraser… #inktober