Birthmarks on newborn babies used to be called "longing-marks" and were believed to take on the shape of something desired by the mother. Pouring a drink and wishing I'd asked the mom who marked me with desire what on earth she'd been desiring.

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We are all Field Negroes now

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We are all Field Negroes now @TheBlackCyde

8 Nov 2024

Paulo Freire was preaching when he said teaching cannot be neutral it either dismantles systemic inequities or perpetuates them

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Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social)

Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social)@selfcoding

10 Nov 2024

RT @nicoscosc: “We cannot get around silence. We can only go through it. The mind is unable to think the mind.” — Edmond Jabès (A Foreign…

Impressions

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Impressions

@impression_ists

9 Nov 2024

First Impressionist? Monet's Sunrise (1872) Turner's Sunset (1840)

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Cameron🔆- Foucauldian arc

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Cameron🔆- Foucauldian arc @camtology

8 Nov 2024

everyone is participating in the "what to do about young men" debate without actually discussing the book that figured out what needs to happen 52 years ago, we need to stop them from continuing to get oedipized over and over again by patriarchal systems

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𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊

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𝕴𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖉𝖊 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕮𝖆𝖘𝖙𝖑𝖊 @incastellated

29 Oct 2024

My greatest joy is not knowing what people are talking about.

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Synekura Audio

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Synekura Audio

@synekura_audio

5 Nov 2024

I recommend Ernst Bloch's essay 'Marxism and Poetry' to everyone, not just poets. But to poets I recommend drinking 3 beers before reading this essay

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Paul Anleitner

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Paul Anleitner

@PaulAnleitner

6 Nov 2024

I don't study politics, but I do study culture, and here are some of the signs that a cultural shift has been brewing for years in America that most of the professional political analysts just completely missed. Some of these may seem absurd, but hear me out. 🧵 We'll start with this one:

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Yoon

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Yoon @nicoscosc

4 Nov 2024

Deleuze: For Proust, to write is to “read the inner book of these unknown signs… There is no logos, there are only hieroglyphs. To think is therefore to interpret, is therefore to translate.” — Ricardo Piglia, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi (tr. Robert Croll)

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Wu Tang is for the Children

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Wu Tang is for the Children

@WUTangKids

21 Oct 2024

I have a new Queen….her name is Patti LuPone

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Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social)

Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social)@selfcoding

20 Oct 2024

RT @nicoscosc: “I would like—with Rimbaud—to eat stones.” Alejandra Pizarnik (Diaries, 1959)

Science girl

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Science girl

@sciencegirl

5 Oct 2024

The cloud formation, the Atacama desert in Chile

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Yoon

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Yoon @nicoscosc

3 Oct 2024

“…in the end, a poet was someone for whom the world didn’t even exist, because, for him, there was only the radiance of the eternal outside.” — Enrique Vila-Matas, The Illogic of Kassel (tr. McLean and Milsom)

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Impressions

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Impressions

@impression_ists

3 Oct 2024

Monet, Sunset on the Seine

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Yoon

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Yoon @nicoscosc

3 Oct 2024

“The work [of literature] always means: not knowing that art exists already, not knowing that there is already a world.” — Blanchot, The Space of Literature (tr. Ann Smock)

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