February 2012
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“This is covert white supremacy in the guise of educational...”
– —Junot Diaz[, whose] book “Drown” was part of the banned curriculum of Mexican American Studies. Diaz won the Pulitzer prize for “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.”
Quote and caption from The Progressive Magazine
January 2012
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“It is crucial for the fate of individuals as well as peoples that culture begin...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man,” Aphorism 48.
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“…everyone has heard of the book in which the famous Cornaro recommends his...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, ”The Four Great Errors,” Aphorism 1, in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
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Christie Front Drive, “Fin”, Stereo,...
December 2011
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“Certainly, the sense of originality exists at its highest in an infant, and...”
– Herman Melville, The Confidence Man, Chapter 44.
“In nearly all the original characters, loosely accounted such in works of...”
– Herman Melville, The Confidence Man, Chapter 44
November 2011
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Manu Chao, “Denia”, Proxima Estación:...
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WatchSchool of Seven Bells, “My Cabal”, Alpinisms, [Ghostly International, 2008]
There was a point in which this post was going to have some commentary on how SVIIB’s music is often under-represented in the indie music press as merely influenced by shoegaze and dreampop. They’re obvious references, really; but the band’s sound suggests influences that are definitely more...
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“Memories of a Haecceity. A body is not defined by the form that determines it...”
– Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guatarri, Mille Plateaux, P. 260.
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“Und hätte er übrigens diesem Falle so ganz unrecht? Gregor fülte sich...”
– Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung, S. 4
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“Far from reducing the multiplicities’ number of dimensions to two, the...”
– Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Mille Plateaux, pp. 251-2.
October 2011
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September 2011
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“The distinction between saying and showing, though, is not simply the...”
– Veena Das, Life and Words: Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010) p. 94
May 2011
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WatchChicano Batman, “Itotiani”, live at the Hobby Shop
There’s a line that Los Lobos sing, which seems to resonate while writing from Berlin. ”No matter where you are, your’re never really far…Good Morning, Aztlan.” Thanks to the Intertubz, the sentiment can be indulged in for a bit, half a world away.
Though we here at tirado/thrown sprechen ein bisschen...
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An Accompaniment to Today's Image of the Day
Well worth noting, Catherine Ramirez writes in her book “Woman of the Zoot Suit” about the privileged status that the male Pachuco has assumed in the Chicano imaginary, at the cost of excluding the Pachuca’s role in WWII-era Mexican-American life. It was something of a harbinger for what followed in making the Chicana silent and invisible during the era of Chicano Cultural...
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“It must not be forgotten, too, though for us the word ‘tragic’ has...”
– Francis Macdonald Cornford, The Origin of Attic Comedy, 1934, 185-86.
April 2011
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“What is most barbaric about the figure of Socrates is that this unartistic human...”
– Walter Benjamin, from “Socrates”, written in 1916.
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“It is now impossible to get lost - a disturbingly boring thought, not to mention...”
– Bill Viola, “The Sound of One Line Scanning”
March 2011
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Broken Social Scene, “World Sick”,...
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“…let us not be alarmed by any argument that tries to frighten us into...”
– Socrates in Plato, Phaedrus, 245b-c
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“Writing is precisely this compromise between freedom and remembrance, it is...”
– Roland Barthes, “What is Writing?”
January 2011
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December 2010
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“The ironic twist today is that le spectacle is spectacle no more. It is a...”
– Anne F. Garréta, “Autonomy and its Discontent,” South Atlantic Quarterly 104:4, Fall 2005. P. 731.
November 2010
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Stereolab: “Come Play in the Milky...
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“In the situation of radical world-alienation, neither history nor nature is at...”
– Hannah Arendt, The Concept of History, Ancient and Modern
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“All forms of exploitation are alike. They all seek to justify their existence...”
– Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
October 2010
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“The history-writing subject is, properly, that part of humanity whose solidarity...”
– Walter Benjamin, “New Theses H”, On the Concept of History
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“…for the vast majority of students, academic study is nothing more than...”
– Walter Benjamin, The Life of Students
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“For the function of violence in lawmaking is twofold, in the sense that...”
– Walter Benjamin, Critique of Violence
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“What, then, is the aura? A strange tissue of space and time; the unique...”
– Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, Thesis IV
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“The increasing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of...”
– Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, Thesis XIX
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“Capitalism is entirely without precedent, in that it is a religion which offers...”
– Walter Benjamin, “Capitalism as Religion”, Unpublished Fragment, 1921
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