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philip regenherz
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»I'm fine« I lied. he/him. cis. white. '91; in the Metropole, treason is always in season.
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cover for the penguin classics edition of twilight of the idols and the anti-christ by friedrich nietzsche, background is an arnold boecklin painting, isle of the dead, no idea which version, white figure in a boat, being rowed by another small figure, about to enter through a water gate in white, background filled with large tall thin trees, some structure on the right, no sand or shore, just large rocks book cover for genocide bad by sim kern, orange background, large typeface, subtitle notes on palestine, jewish history and collective liberation, bestselling author of The free people's village. on the orange background seems to be a blueprint of a bomb or a weapon of some kind
November 25, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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sover for progressive dystopia abolition antiblackness, plus schooling in san franscisco by Savannah Shange, very abstract painting on the bottom half, lots of blacks and greys bleeding into each other, with some more clearer and less abstract photographs of black people worked in between smudges of paint and lines book cover for as serious as your life black music and the free jazz revolution 1957 to 1977, huge picture in frame of a upper case Black man playing drums, face partially obscured in thick lower case black shadow, naked upper body, light coming from behind to the right, leaving much of his left side and front completely deeply black. deep emotion on face, eyes closed
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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German cover for the Taschenbibliothek edition of Morbus Kitahara bz Christoph Ransmayer, a novel. light green, taken up almost entirelz by a strange little figurine, like a stylized humanoid lifting their arms, but the space of both hands as well as head is taken up instead by either leaves or feathers. almost not recognizable as a person, but somehow still person-like. cut off from the waist down, where some black scratchmarks are visible. Might be a photograph of a small real sculpture cover for the fischer taschenbibliothek version of adas raum by sharon dodua otoo , a novel. beautiful bauhaus colors on the tall typeface, every letter a series of parallel lines cleverly overlapping at the rounded corners or the top of the A
November 8, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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cover for The Dehumanization of Art and other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature by José Ortega Y Gasset, just the text and three blocks of color, author on a thin strip of white, big emptz green at the bottom and title on bright blue in the top part of the background cover for the penguin classics edition of twilight of the idols and the anti-christ by nietzsche, background is an arnold boecklin painting, isle of the dead, no idea which version, white figure in a boat, being rowed by another small figure, about to enter through a water gate in white, large tall thin treets, some structure on the right, no sand or shore, just large rocks
November 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Cover for an older Penguin edition of Virtual Light by William Gibson depicting a golden round space station looking object above a dark background that is either a cityscape on a planet or maybe just a city, no idea older penguin edition in the same style, cover for idoru by william gibson. person with very long hair on the right, face in darkness.
November 7, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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cover for Human Acts by Han Kang, picture or photo of a sculpture slash installation of two feet, apart from each other on a black grey floor, colored ivory, it's feet and shins and then ends, they appear to be hollow with a big hole at the top, where they are cut off, no insides visible. the one in the back only connects to the floor by the toes, suggesting movement forward towards the camera cover for Beowulf A New Translation by Maria Dahvana Headley, stylized red lower case b with a crown icon right above and a large winged snake in ink winding through the gaps in the latter. bright blue background.
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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For no reason whatsoever, certainly not one pertinent to this particular point in time, would recommend more people study "The Limits of Critique" (2015) by Rita Felski.
the cover for the limits of critique by rita felski, red lettering on solid white background, the word critique has two white lines running through it, same white as the background
October 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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Wondering whether it's just the photography that makes the black surface look like someone's first attempt at 3d printing, because if you add a bit of a color scheme, which you can do, but not really preview, as this photograph of the hinge add-on seems to suggest, it look so much better!
mock up or photo of the keebwarrior add-on called EX2 formerly a hinge 2 , showing the hinge, which you can place the controller on so you can lay it on your lap, and it actually includes 3 hinges. now the controller is shown in blue, with yelllow highlights on the outside edge, and red cables. the hinge is also blue. Much better look!
October 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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That's a direction I, my wrists, hands, arms, shoulders and neck can appreciate! Though, I've got to say, if you go split, I want more sauce on the design! This Keebwarrior-S04 is so much more expensive than its basic looks would suggest. That doesn't go together for me, unfortunately.
picture of the mavercade keebwarrior-s4, a split fighting game controller, like a split keyboard connected with cables. use wristrests with your keebwarrior is written at the top of the picture. tiny wristrests for each one below each module
October 24, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Tayama Midori's Girl Crush ('20-) captures the allure of Korean idol music so much better in Shoujo manga form than a recent popular film did: similar romanticization of the field at play, but much more substance, focusing on the interpersonal dynamics between trainees as well as their inner lives.
screenshot of a big panel from girl crush the manga, two young girls, one tall blonde carrying a rolling suit case and one short pointing to the left. the blonde one seems to look around more while the shorter one with black hair is leading her. there are six irregular panels in the background showing new sights in korea to these two girls from japan, advertisements, shops, clothing, and a city street. very styilized, pop art dots in the background. both dressed in summer clothes
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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cover for The Spivak Reader Edited by Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean, background under light green tint is a portrait of Spivak, looking to the right sover for progressive dystopia abolition antiblackness, plus schooling in san franscisco by Savannah Shange, very abstract painting on the bottom half, lots of blacks and greys bleeding into each other, with some more clearer and less abstract photographs of black people worked in between smudges of paint and lines
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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cover for The Hills of Hebron by Sylvia Wynter, title and author in respective ribbon of single color yellow background at top and bottom of the page, half of the cover in the middle taken up by a painting depicting a large crowd of all Black people standing together at a rocky shoreline in one or two lines, those closer to the water wearing white clothes while those further back wearing shades of beige faded yellow, red and even some blue. They seem to look at the water slash ocean to the left of the frame. Some are sitting on a rock on shore. The far back is taken up by some vegetation and behind a tree on the top left, there seems to be another line of people, suggesting an even larger crowd than is shown cover for Human Acts by Han Kang, picture or photo of a sculpture slash installation of two primarily feet, apart from each other on a black grey floor, colored ivory, it's feet and shins and then ends, they appear to be hollow with a big hole at the top, where they are cut off, no insides visible. the one in the back only connects to the floor by the toes, suggesting they may be walking
October 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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cover for Sister Outsider, essays and speeches by Audre Lorde, mostly light blue background, gilded typeface, next to big author name, black and white portrait of Lorde looking directly at the camera, touching her glasses frame cover for The Dehumanization of Art and other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature by José Ortega Y Gasset, just the text and three blocks of color, author on a thin strip of white, big emptz green at the bottom and title on bright blue in the top part of the background
October 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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cover for Corpses Fools and Monsters, the history and future of transness in cinema by Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay published by repeater. a minimal pop art rendition of a person's face takes up the background, eyes, nose, eyebrows and contours of the face in blue, with red lips in the center below the title. molly haskell quote in small "a superb work of film history" cover for the Spivak Reader Edited by Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean, background under light green tint is a portrait of Spivak, looking to the right
October 17, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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cover for full surrogacy now feminism against family by sophie lewis, dark background, title in the middle is warped in a circular shape. blurry, slightly distorted letters. cover for Sister Outsider, essays and speeches by Audre Lorde, mostly light blue background, gilded typeface, next to big author name, black and white portrait of Lorde looking directly at the camera, touching her glasses frame
September 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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The cover for Halldor Laxness Independent People, in between author name and title at the bottom two thirds of the cover, winner of the novel prize in literature, and below, in the bottom fourth, a quote by Jane Smiley that says I love this book. It is an unfolding wonder of artistic vision and skill-one of the best books of the twentieth century. I can't imagine any greater delight than coming to Independent People for the first time. The top third of the cover depicts an idyllic landscape in an abstract flat shapes painted style, with mountains, a lake and a farmstead in the back, a hill in the front where two white sheep left and right graze and look up, and a black sheep in the middle just looking up Cover for an older Penguin edition of Virtual Light by William Gibson depicting a golden round space station looking object above a dark background that is either a cityscape on the planet or maybe just a city, no idea.
September 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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when I want to learn about the ad-free alternative to watch the popular video service, but I am still on the popular video service
picture of a guy with a fedora and a new pipe in his hands
September 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Or the one from the French language edition. There's only this low-res image I could find? It's great, though. The novel really knows how to avoid some of the trappings of fiction that wants to portray revolutionary events and ends up mired either in saccharine triumphs or outright nihilism?
french language edition cover for Sembene Ousmane's God's Bits of Wood, titled in red les bouts de bois de dieu. painting that shows black sketchy railroad tracks in the foreground leading into the background, a small locomotive in the distance, all inky black. Also form the foreground, accompanying the tracks only on the left side are at least eight or nine figures, maybe more, all Black, in various colorful dresses, the third seemingly naked. Very dark sin. No detail in the faces, all looking towards the right, slightly up.
September 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Reluctantly finished God's Bits of Wood (1960) by Ousmane Sembène today, a fictional account of an actual historical event, a railway strike in the 1940s, in Senegal under colonial occupation. Genuinely moving and inspiring without reducing the complexities of the situation? I much prefer this cover
cover for god's bits of wood by sembene ousmane, african writers series in a yellow ribbon at the very top, title and author in white boxes at top and bottom of the page respectively, deep blue, slightly textured background, big painting takes up the center of the page, very warm colors, abstract but easily recognizable figure of a person, perhaps a Black woman holding a baby, minimal facial features, white clothing with larger areas of strong primary colors, particularly where shadow falls, and on her skirt, bare arms, cradling. eyes closed head slightly angled downward towards shoulder and baby, buildings in the background as abstracted shapes.
September 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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cover for God's Bits of Wood by Sembène Ousmane, nearly all brown-red background with some text. warm texture, three squiggly lines in orange at the top right shaped like threes, and four squiggly liens at the bottom in the same of conjoined triangles, resembling mountains cover for The Hills of Hebron by Sylvia Wynter, title and author in respective ribbon of single color yellow background at top and bottom of the page, half of the cover in the middle taken up by a painting depicting a large crowd of all Black people standing together at a rocky shoreline in one or two lines, those closer to the water wearing white clothes while those further back wearing shades of beige faded yellow, red and even some blue. They seem to look at the water slash ocean to the left of the frame. Some are sitting on a rock on shore. The far back is taken up by some vegetation and behind a tree on the top left, there seems to be another line of people, suggesting an even larger crowd than is shown
September 18, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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cover for sylvia wynter on being human as praxis, with editor Katherine McKittrick, picture of Sylvia Wynter looking back at the camera, holding a long piece of paper letter manuscript etc. with a pen in hand, up in front of her cover for Corpses Fools and Monsters, the history and future of transness in cinema by Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay published by repeater. a minimal pop art rendition of a person's face takes up the background, eyes, nose, eyebrows and contours of the face in blue, with red lips in the center below the title. molly haskell quote in small "a superb work of film history"
September 16, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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screenshot from anime mawaru penguindrum showing two blue cartoon penguins each holding up a flip-book on a no entry traffic sign
September 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Continuing the Alan Moore journey, to accompany @rangedtouch.bsky.social 's Shelved by Genre, and having a good time with these first few issues of Saga of the Swamp thing, particularly the page layouts and colors? Not into the characterization on this and some other pages? I'll see where it goes.
page 70 from the saga of the swamp thing box set, first volume. several overlapping panels, with the space between panels being used in the middle. Top vertical panel is of a landscape shot of a house in black silhouette with yellow lights on, at sunset, very orange background, light pink clouds. tree in forefront. then a larger vertical panel on top on the left side, extending almost past the middle vertical, of a woman's face with blue eyes and long white hair, then the same woman from a distance, in the space between that panel and the next, in the white border, walking towards the camera in a yellow outfit with clouds in the form of a man behind her, then two more vertical panels, entering a motor inn that has a vacancy sign up, and then from the inside of the door, she in silhouette, all in black, with her shadow extending to the forefront, with an orange background filling the door. panel below horizontal, irregular trapezoid shape, same woman back turned to the camera, in a corridor with two doors, very dark, blue cross hatching. she is still illuminated. next horizontal panel slightly overlapping, close up of both of her eyes with a shadow on the right side of her face. Narration all over: "sunset over houma. the rains have stopped. clouds like plugs of bloodied cotton wool dab ineffectually at the slashed wrists of the sky. she's been out walking by herself again. she's been thinking about matt, she's been thinking about woodrue. shes been thinking about alec and edible tubers and whether she's losing her mind or not just walking, thinking, stff like that. swamped. she's going home how. going home to sleep. Mat will probably sit up alone again eating pink burritos in the cellophane blue light of the tv. how is it possible to live with someone and yet feel so utterly ... alone. like trapped flies the low buzz of whispered laughter. voices. matt's. a woman's.
September 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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What happened? It took me two months to get through the first half, which I enjoyed a lot. I guess the weather has been bad, so I have not been able to read outside.
two entries on anilist showing i logged watching episode 27 to 36 of eureka seven yesterday, and then logged watching episode 37 to 45 seven minutes ago
September 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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Motosuwa on the cusp of unlocking literary criticism
last page of the 31st chapter of the manga chobits, two panels. first smaller panel at the top, boy reading a picture book called a city with no people, looking shocked. second panel, from his perspective, the picture book shows a doll like figure on the roof of a building at night. boy says "it's almost like... theyr'e talking about persocoms"
September 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM