Today marks the 28th Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It also marks 28 years of reducing the legacy of radical social justice and antiwar activist into that of loving quotes on racial reconciliation. Ultimately, think back to what you were taught about Dr. King and you’ll most likely remember…
CELLINI, Benvenuto
Perseus
1545-54
Bronze, height 320 cm
Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence
—Jessica Greenbaum, Poetry, July/August 2012 At the Los Angeles Review of Books, Lisa Russ Spaar reviews Greenbaum’s The Two Yvonnes, mentioning “the abecedarian ‘A Poem for S.,’” above.
Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach
There is still much to learn from the radical legacy of critical theory.
Source: Below the Asphalt Lies the Beach
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Skysoaked: Jibanananda Das
Reblogged from translations:
Suranjana, you better not go there You better not talk to that young man Come back, Suranjana When silver starfire fills the night
Come back to this meadow, this wave Come back here to my heart Don’t go away with him anymore Fa…
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The pandemic is not a war. The pandemic is a consequence of war. A war against life.
Untitled by Ivana Stojakovic
अनन्त का छंद – 7 प्रसन्न कुमार चौधरी घ. चेतन अस्तित्व सामान्य 96. अपने जीवनयापन के क्रम में मनुष्य निरन्तर अपनी समृति में डूबता-उतराता रहता है, अपने होने के अनेको अर्थ उलीचता जाता है, अपने को परिभाषित और पुनर्परिभाषित करने की ज़द्दोज़हद में उलझा पाता है । मैं नहीं जानता मैं क्या हूँ, मेरा मन भटकता फिरता है । ऋग्वेद के एक श्लोक का कुछ ऐसा ही भावार्थ है । स्मृति ही भौतिक जीवन के परस्पर विरोधी…
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Fall colors blaze out in concentric rings from a lake in eastern Pomerania, Poland. The region on the south shore of the Baltic Sea is largely covered with farmland and vast swaths of forest.
Source ((Travel 365, National Geographic)
With capitalism, the excess ..becomes the rule, that is, the elementary form of buying is the act of buying things we ‘don’t really need’.
Slavoj Zizek (via alterities)
'Naitaavad enaa, paro anyad asti' (There is not merely this, but a transcendent other). Rgveda. X, 31.8.
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