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camden
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· Feb 15
Ali Smith, GLIFF (2024):
What do we need passports for? she said.
Yeah but a passport doesn’t prove we’re us, she said. We prove a passport’s it. We just are us. We’re us right now and we don’t have any passports to prove we’re us. Not having a passport doesn’t mean we, what, disappear.
What do we need passports for? she said.
Yeah but a passport doesn’t prove we’re us, she said. We prove a passport’s it. We just are us. We’re us right now and we don’t have any passports to prove we’re us. Not having a passport doesn’t mean we, what, disappear.
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‘Scribbled, scrawled, gauche, idle, unlovely – the hand is no one’s, or everyone’s, or mythic, or just a stain left behind by something written there before. You cannot get away from yourself in your own hand.’
Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson · Beware the man whose handwriting sways like a reed in the wind
This is an essay about hands and handwriting. I think of handwriting as a way to organise thought into shapes. I like...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
‘Scribbled, scrawled, gauche, idle, unlovely – the hand is no one’s, or everyone’s, or mythic, or just a stain left behind by something written there before. You cannot get away from yourself in your own hand.’
Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson in the next issue, online early: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.” Judith Butler on why democracy needs the humanities.
Judith Butler: To Imagine a World After This, Democracy Needs the Humanities
Many young people tell me that they fear there is no future. When they ask about the future, they are also asking: what is still imaginable or for what may we still hope? To say there is no future,…
lithub.com
February 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
“The beginning of democracy requires a transport into a necessary fiction.” Judith Butler on why democracy needs the humanities.
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I keep saying this but... if you live in a big city and want to fight fascism, questioning what your mayor and cops are doing to unhoused people is an *excellent* start.
Criminalizing people who have nothing is how nice urban liberals do fascism.
Criminalizing people who have nothing is how nice urban liberals do fascism.
"There's just nothing normal about shelter. It's an institutional setting that's highly restrictive."
San Francisco is investing in shelter beds as a way to justify criminalizing unhoused people, but shelters alone won't solve homelessness. My latest newsletter!
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
San Francisco is investing in shelter beds as a way to justify criminalizing unhoused people, but shelters alone won't solve homelessness. My latest newsletter!
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
"They Just Want Them Out of Sight": A Short-Term Fix for Homelessness
Thanks for reading my newsletter! I have a book coming out in August called Lessons in Magic and Disaster. Jamie’s mother Serena has been hiding away in an...
buttondown.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I keep saying this but... if you live in a big city and want to fight fascism, questioning what your mayor and cops are doing to unhoused people is an *excellent* start.
Criminalizing people who have nothing is how nice urban liberals do fascism.
Criminalizing people who have nothing is how nice urban liberals do fascism.
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they come for the artists first and don’t you forget it xx
February 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
they come for the artists first and don’t you forget it xx
Ali Smith, GLIFF (2024):
What do we need passports for? she said.
Yeah but a passport doesn’t prove we’re us, she said. We prove a passport’s it. We just are us. We’re us right now and we don’t have any passports to prove we’re us. Not having a passport doesn’t mean we, what, disappear.
What do we need passports for? she said.
Yeah but a passport doesn’t prove we’re us, she said. We prove a passport’s it. We just are us. We’re us right now and we don’t have any passports to prove we’re us. Not having a passport doesn’t mean we, what, disappear.
February 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Ali Smith, GLIFF (2024):
What do we need passports for? she said.
Yeah but a passport doesn’t prove we’re us, she said. We prove a passport’s it. We just are us. We’re us right now and we don’t have any passports to prove we’re us. Not having a passport doesn’t mean we, what, disappear.
What do we need passports for? she said.
Yeah but a passport doesn’t prove we’re us, she said. We prove a passport’s it. We just are us. We’re us right now and we don’t have any passports to prove we’re us. Not having a passport doesn’t mean we, what, disappear.
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The Trump Administration is launching nothing less than a giant affirmative action program for straight white men, a great many of whom, including Trump and Vance, are utterly unqualified for their positions and would be mocked for their hubris if they were women or Black or gay or.....
January 25, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The Trump Administration is launching nothing less than a giant affirmative action program for straight white men, a great many of whom, including Trump and Vance, are utterly unqualified for their positions and would be mocked for their hubris if they were women or Black or gay or.....
sometimes at the bookstore there is a teeny
tiny
ghost
tiny
ghost
January 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
sometimes at the bookstore there is a teeny
tiny
ghost
tiny
ghost
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Vaclav Havel: The kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison) I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world.
January 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Vaclav Havel: The kind of hope I often think about (especially in situations that are particularly hopeless, such as prison) I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the world.
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i think it is hard to feel like an alien in this world. when i discovered lynch when i was fifteen, i found myself faced at last with a translation system: what if you could make work that looked like the mystery you face every day. the marvel and the horror. what if you could tell the truth?
January 16, 2025 at 8:52 PM
i think it is hard to feel like an alien in this world. when i discovered lynch when i was fifteen, i found myself faced at last with a translation system: what if you could make work that looked like the mystery you face every day. the marvel and the horror. what if you could tell the truth?