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"Does it matter if women ‘lean in’, to quote Sheryl Sandberg, and get positions of power? These sorts of ambitions are only open to a small number of women by definition, and increasing the number of women in positions of power doesn’t seem to change much, ultimately. Succeeding here perhaps only reinforces a particular system of domination and exploitation. [...] Far from possessing great power, men are frequently trapped in systems of other men’s making. […] Patriarchy, if we accept that this term refers to something real, absolutely hurts men too."
— Nina Power, What do Men Want? (2022)
"In the eighteenth century the conviction that man is endowed with certain rights was not a repetition of beliefs that were held by the community, nor even a repetition of beliefs handed down by forefathers. It was a reflection of the situation of the men who proclaimed these rights; it expressed a critique of conditions that imperatively called for change, and this demand was understood by and translated into philosophical thought and historical actions. The pathfinders of modern thought did not derive what is good from the law—they even broke the law—but they tried to reconcile the law with the good."
— Max Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason (1947)
"Men who choose the terrain of reason, as opposed to emotion, place themselves in a position of authority. Only someone in a position of dominance can permit himself to be calm and reasonable in any circumstance, because he’s not the one who is suffering. [...] The thing is, no one likes emotions spilling over, even less so when they’re from a woman, and so it took a long time to reclaim this anger. Now it’s begun to find its voice, and the taboos that have stifled it for centuries are being stripped away: people have started to write about it, to reflect on its causes, to compare it to male anger. It exists. We must cherish this voice and feed the flames of our anger deep in our breasts, heed its calls for justice and reparations, its insistence that we not lose heart."
— Pauline Harmange, I Hate Men (2020)
"If we are to change, it won’t be through rational knowledge, but through emotionally charged values."
— Paul Verhaeghe, What about Me? (2012/2014)
"Intentions are how we enact values in specific situations. They’re ways we turn values into action at a specific time and place. […] There is the basic choice in life: doing what matters, doing what you care about, or having your days focused on trying to escape pain.”
— McKay/Greenberg/Fanning, The ACT Workbook for Depression and Shame (2020)
"What matters to us depends on what we care for, and there is no reason that we must all care for the same thing. Morality should be part of the art of living, not a dictatorial authority ruling over us."
— Nietzsche, narwhals and the burden of consciousness (2023)
"When people talk of morality they do not know what it is they are talking about. At the same time they are unshakably certain in what they say. This may seem paradoxical. But it is not, since what they are doing is expressing their emotions. Apart from any facts they may cite in support of them, there is nothing true or false in their judgements of value. That is why there cannot be agreement in morality. If value judgements merely express emotions, there is nothing to agree (or disagree) about."
— Feline Philosophy (2020)
— John N. Gray
"The power of rhetorical discourse is often based upon its ability to harness this motivational power of emotions to encourage new beliefs and actions. A rhetor who wishes an audience to reject something will inspire repelling emotions, while attracting emotions will be attached to the preferred belief or course of action. However, emotions do not guarantee action. The larger challenge is to use emotions productively rather than simply arousing them and then leaving them to fester or dissolve away."
— Nathan Crick, Rhetorical Public Speech: The Art of the Engaged Citizen (2007)
"No one has been as effective at mobilizing popular resentment of the [Professional Managerial Class] as Donald Trump. He merely stepped in to take advantage of decades of successful conservative propaganda positioning PMC liberalism as the enemy of the people and popular interests. Trump never pretended to be virtuous: his id-driven politics and lack of self-control formed the core of his appeal to those who felt scorned by the liberal superego. To defeat reactionary politics masquerading as populism, we need anti-PMC class struggle from the Left, not more identity politics, which has become just another vehicle of PMC virtue signaling. The Democratic Party, however, is not the political organization that will lead us in a struggle against capitalism and its deeply destructive system of exploitation and rent seeking.”
— Catherine Liu, Virtue Hoarders: The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (2021)
"As long as enough people can be convinced to see men as the bourgeosie who have always unjustly benefited from their exploitation of women and women as the proletariat who have always been forced to toil and slave without benefit under the boot-heel of those privileged men, you can justify anything. It becomes acceptable, justifiable, and appropriate for women to expropriate men's undeserved and unearned power, wealth, and privilege by any means necessary—including state coercion."
— Karen Straughan, Feminism: Socialism in Panties
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[fidelity to the event]
JH: When did he first come on this language? Was it in the Seven Sermons or was it earlier?
SS: I take it to be in the summer of 1914. The first layer of the text, running from October of 1913 through to February, where he engages in introspective elaboration of his fantasies, the method that he subsequently calls active imagination, is not an elevated language. It’s a precise depiction of what transpires. He maintains in that what I call a fidelity to the event.
JH: Fidelity to the event.
SS: Accurate notation, dates, precision, indicating that something of significance is taking place. There is no attempt to fictionalize it. It’s quite fantastic but it is real.
JH: And he is recording.
SS: He is recording it.
JH: I wanted to ask you about that. Does he record as it happens? Or does he record after he’s had the dialogues? Because when I did active imagination myself long ago most of it was done as it happened. So it was a writing, in a way. Some of it was not. Some of it was a conversation, interior, and then I would write it recapture it—by writing.
SS: This is one of the imponderable questions of which I’ve hit my head against the wall for many a year now in that it’s hard to make a decision on this. Certain segments of the text give the sense that he sees a dramatic sequence and then notes it down, whereas certain other segments of the text appear to unfold in the writing.
JH: Unfold in the writing as a flowing dialogue.
SS: Yes. Or there are certain statements that I like. There’s one point where he says, “I’ve run out of tobacco so I can’t write anymore.”
JH: That’s good.
SS: My intuition leans to this as a writing experience, but again you can’t be sure about this. Just looking at the materiality of the text suggests to me as a writer that he’s writing this out.
JH: Yes. But he does report dreams.
SS: Well actually very few and that’s one striking element of the text-my reading of this is that the dreams and the fantasies are separate layers. There are very few dreams noted, and there’s also very surprisingly little interplay between his dreams during this period and the fantasies that unfold.
JH: So he doesn’t take a figure from a dream and begin to work with that dream, that figure.
SS: No, if anything sometimes the opposite occurs. Characters from his fantasies then reemerge in the dream.
[Response]
Image work, if it is to be recorded, necessitates that there is fidelity to documenting the event (the image). But the act of documenting itself is a material practice, one that is deeply embedded in power structures and shaped by the cultural and social norms of the time and this has to considered when thinking about what fidelity to the event - means. Also I am an artist, this is a weird complication I am struggling with, documenting the image can be art, but it doesn't have to be and I really don't want it to be. But it is an art, a kind of art that I am struggling to find find the language to talk about.
I am looking at my own desk in my own studio. I have in front of me a computer, as I think of this I now look to the pile of papers and bills on my right-hand side, what pierces immediately is the thought that within this pile is a bill for the debt that enabled me to buy this computer. This pile also has a lot of post-it notes with ideas, fragments written on them, image-words and there is also a postcard from a friend. The bills and the work are all in one pile and now I am beginning to think about this relationship and I can feel the poke of an image, like a tinge of a corner but now I try and stay with what I am physically present with and rather than sink down - or move forward into space with this I am trying to stay present for now and widen the gyre - a horizontal circular boundary around this slice of reality, space and time.
The image is a thing I think I impulsively work with in a certain way - grab it or hold it? To make it real, am I spinning it - or am I spinning with it each time it becomes something else? When words or things come into place is this an equal exchange or have I exerted a power over something, some being trying to speak? Maybe it doesn't want to be words or a thing or an idea. What really is the position of the ego as I do this?
To stay true to the facts, to resist the pull of form or aesthetic is challenging, I am wondering if this requires minimalism or maximalism. It is one of these extremes surely? Do I record everything or nothing?
I am thinking about boring poetry, poetry that is just a list of thing words. Shopping list, packing list, to-do list.
Perceptions of events are shaped by the materials and technologies of the documentation, by the social and cultural contexts in which they were produced. Rather than seeking to transcend these material realities, how do I engage with them and grapple with them? How do I record a movement through digital space - freely - authentically - what are the wordable facts behind a drift, can I word them?
Image work is a practice of listening, this means there are voices heard and voices silenced. As such, the act of documenting an image is a political act, one that has the power to challenge dominant narratives and to bring marginalised voices to the forefront - this includes both the human to non-human. It is a practice that demands a deep engagement with materiality and a willingness to embrace complexity and resist the pull of simplistic or fantastical narratives.
To stay true to the facts, to resist the immediate temptation to ‘give form’ (a drawing, a poem, an object) means rethinking what it means to work with an image, a strange art that can mean - no things. This is a decentering of ego - a willingness to make (with) by making nothing. No physical truthy proofy thing.
[image] [vesseling] [spiralling] [mattering] [amplifying]
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I felt a lot more inspired to do things important to me
The Nerdfighter community has helped me realize that I’m not alone. At school, I was a geek, nerd, freak, etc. Sometimes I felt really self conscious, but I usually ignored it.
Then I read Paper Towns. There were some links in the back of the book, so I started watching the Vlogbrothers. That, in turn, led me to the online community.
I’ve made a lot of friends that are really rad. After a while, I also began watching Crash Course. They’ve helped me study for multiple tests. Also, I felt a lot more inspired to do things important to me. Music is one of the most important things in my life, but I didn’t know what to write about. Some of the artists on DFTBA Records reminded me that you should write for yourself. If Doctor Who is the only thing I can relate to, it’s 100% okay to write a song about it, and maybe someone else will like it too. I just want to thank them both for starting this and becoming so relevant to my life.
Marissa (Thehillsarealivewithfangirls.tumblr)
#nfstories#vlogbrothers#nerdfighteria#nerds#friendship#Paper Towns#music#mattering#gratitude#DFTBA#thank you
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some of my favourite sign fails <3
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#tiktok#blind#visually impaired#braille#mona lisa#inclusion#inclusivity#accessibility#disabled lives matter#disabled life#disabled#louvre#art museum#museum#louvre museum
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I miss the days when, no matter how slow your internet was, if you paused any video and let it buffer long enough, you could watch it uninterrupted
#spending the next week and a half with the shittiest country internet#and i cannot watch shit no matter how long i buffer
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idk what traumatized or mentally ill person needs to hear this but dreams (especially the really disturbing ones you dont want to talk about to anybody) arent some deep peek into your psyche or a sign of your True Desires or whatever theyre quite literally your brain making fruit salad with whatever it can find on the shelf. just putting all that shit in a blender and hitting obliterate. its fine, youre fine, youre not a weirdo for it
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really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.
#who cares if its platonic love who fucking CARES if its because they wanna kiss like the devotion and the tenderness is there no matter what#mainly brought to you by: jack and anne from black sails but also probably sydcarmy and msr#sydcarmy#msr#rackhanne#the bear#black sails#txf#the x files#mulder x scully#sydney x carmy#jack rackham x anne bonny#oh wait perhaps also theonsa if you squint#maybe not
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be free!!
#surkeart#my art#cringe culture is dead#keep doing what makes you happy no matter what others think#youre awesome#sonic#furby#long furby#furry#fursuit#brony#mlp#naruto#cosplay#gengar#people#trans#DO NOT REPOST thanks
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#palestine#free palestine#gaza#free gaza#israel#palestinian lives matter#jerusalem#social justice#genocide in gaza#save palestine#art
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EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt
#talk tag#IT KILLS ME. REIGEN IS NOT MOB'S DAD. HE HAS A DAD. INGO IS NOT AKARI'S DAD. PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CAN ANYONE HEAR ME#(not even necessarily to say that ingo is in his late 20s but still)#(even if he was a 30-40-50 year old no matter how old he is no fucking teenager is gonna call some guy they met as a 15 year old ''dad'')#GAI IS NOT A FATHER FIGURE TO ROCK LEE HE WAS LIKE 13 WHEN HE WAS BORN! PLEASE!!!!!!!!#one time i saw that a person wrote a fic where mario was like a father figure to luigi.#they are TWIN BROTHERS.#not what this about but idk where else i can say anything about this.#just horrible#also sometimes someone is just An Older Friend like no familial relationship just a friend or acquaintance who is a lot older than you
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solved the paradox of the ship of Theseus btw!! turns out the answer was “it depends”. hope that helps, have a good weekend everybody!
#add tags to help people find your post#for the record this is my genuine opinion on the matter#hall of fame#I like this post a lot actually I’m glad it’s getting notes thanks everyone#daphne.txt
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that being said I'm not actually always opposed to conflict free fluff I am just opposed to the characters having their claws filed down for it. you can stick them in a coffee shop au it should just still feel like you sat the two worst most insane people on earth in a starbucks
#which in some cases I suppose if you did not file them down it would cease to be conflict free fluff#no matter WHAT au it was. but nevertheless
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don't give up
#idk if i should tag it as vent art but?? it's a vent...#vent art#self encouragement#art motivation#Edit November 2023: Please do not refer this post as a political matter#it's my personal vent art and I don't want it to become something related to politics
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looking at (vetted) gofundmes for people trying to escape palestine and i don't know how many of you actually click on the gofundme links you reblog but i would like to point out, for what it's worth, just how amazing it is that so many have raised so much money. it may overall feel like a drop in the ocean but the fact that several gofundmes have raised tens of thousands of dollars is amazing. it is so expensive to leave gaza right now, and people still need money after they escape. but regardless of what propaganda the US, UK, canada, and other western nations are trying to pump out, people across the world are doing what they can to help these people survive. many of them are still very far from their goals (like this one and this one and this one) and some of them are very close to high goals (like this one), and some of them have reached almost double their original goal.
and that's not even addressing direct aid or organizations that take continuous donations for distribution of food, menstrual products, etc. the PCRF has raised $16,000,000 of their target goal of $20,000,000 to fund current aid and long-term relief efforts in gaza. ANERA's febuary 13th update discusses the material ways they helped palestinians today:
(ANERA donate link)
my point is, it often feels like the world is turning a blind eye to palestine. but i would like to point out that there is an important difference between "the world" and "western political leaders and media narratives". a breathtaking amount of real people, the people who make up the world, are trying to help. in the face of israel attempting to commit genocide, the world is saying No. These people deserve to live. and literally sending millions of dollars internationally, through the internet connection that israel has desperately been trying to destroy.
it may not feel like it matters in the grand scheme of things. but to the people who get fresh clothes, or a hot meal, or blankets, or the kids who get new toys, or to the people who are able to bring their families to safety, it matters to them. go make someone's day better. i've linked so many options with ways to do that.
#free palestine#cricket chirps#palestine#gaza#if you feel overwhelmed and don't know where to begin#i recommend deciding on a total amount of money to donate (e.g. $20 $100 etc)#and deciding you will either donate it all in one place or split it between a few places#do what you can!!! it will always be helpful no matter how little#1k#5k#10k#20k
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