dig

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among and in between

canopies, a murmur,

purple and black intoned

in chant,

seemingly leading elsewhere,

slight, in its sursurrated syntax,

emanant and reaching

longed-for gardens

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Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics by Claire Bishop. OCTOBER 110, Fall 2004.

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Mossy and thumping, bare of logic, red (Natalie Shapero)

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he used one hand to hold it by its gills and the other to drive a small metal stake between its eyes and directly into its brain—a technique known in Japan as ike jime. The bonito’s body twitched until Yamasaki slid a thin metal wire down the column of its spinal cord, a second step called shinkei jime, which arrests its nervous system.

The method is considered significantly more humane than the standard alternatives for killing a fish (thwacking it on the head, letting it suffocate), and is analogous to halal and kosher butchery, which both require that animals be slaughtered with a swift, decisive cut to the throat. It also results in fish that tastes better and stays fresh significantly longer.

How to Kill a Fish (The New Yorker)

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https://www.tumblr.com/mentaltimetraveller/798261014934306816/ad-reinhardt-untitled-1940

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When the Social-Democratic worker found himself in the economic crisis which degraded him to a coolie, the development of his revolutionary feelings was inhibited by the conservative structure which had been cultivated in him for decades. Either he remained in the Social-Democratic party, in spite of all his criticism and rebellion. Or, oscillating between his revolutionary and his conservative feelings, and disillusioned by Social- Democratic leadership, he followed the path of least resistance and switched to the NSDAP, hoping to find better leadership there. In this situation, it depended on the correct or incorrect mass leadership of the revolutionary party whether or not the worker would give up his conservative tendency and would develop the full consciousness of his responsibility in the production process, that is, his revolutionary consciousness. The Communist contention that it was Social-Democratic politics which had helped fascism come to power was—mass-psychologically— correct. Disillusionment in Social Democracy must, in the presence of a conflict between pauperization and conservative thinking, lead into the fascist camp if there are no effective revolutionary organizations. Thus there was, for example, a fascization of the workers in England after the fiasco of the Labor party in 1930–31; in the elections of 1931, the workers, instead of swinging to Communism, shifted to the right. Democratic Scandinavia, also, was threatened by such a development.

The Mass Psychology of Fascism, Wilhelm Reich

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the need to leave, to rebel, to escape is so great it fills him to his very outer edge

Let him think kindly of her, always.

Hamnet, Maggie O’Farrell

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“Whatever names the doctors attached to our kids didn’t matter—they were all just hurt children, suffering from developmental delays, who needed our help.”

The Four Spent the Day Together, Chris Kraus

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Intervals — Marielle Plaisir, The Duck; Pepe Mar, Silver Dust; Ricardo Alcaide, Liminal; Emil Lukas, #2023 Radiant; Troy Simmons, SPORE (Durchbruch Hybrid Series).

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Pessimism of the intellect; Optimism of the will! Antonio Gramsci via “Il faut avoir le pessimisme de l’intelligence et l’optimisme de la volonté” Romain Rolland.

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Radio AlHara TAKEOVER FOR IRAN

City of Miami, Art in Public Places, originally launched in 1967, relaunched in 2017.

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Forever is composed of Nows —

’Tis not a different time,

Except for infiniteness

And latitude of home.

From this, experienced here,

Remove the dates to these,

Let months dissolve in further months,

And years exhale in years.

Without certificate or pause

Or celebrated days,

As infinite our years would be

As Anno Domini’s.

Emily Dickinson