“Closet” by Woshibai
Thanks to @paradisesystems for help with translation.
Lion Monument (or Lion of Lucerne) - Bertel Thorvaldsen’s design and hewn by Lukas Ahorn in 1820-21, Lucerne, Switzerland
"Contactos" ("Personals") strip by Mariel Soria and Andreu Martín, 1980, as reprinted in a Suplemento mensual El Jueves volume, and translated by me.
Lake View Cemetery: The Haserot Angel
It’s called the Angel of Death Victorious. Due to an effect of weathering and erosion on the bronze, the statue appears to be weeping black tears at all times.
Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer spanish edition in Ediciones Vertice (1969-1974). Covers by Enrich and Rafael López-Espí. Before Alex Ross!
If the end-game of Gramscian struggle is the isolation and emasculation of the ruling classes’ ensemble of questions, as a way to alter the structure of feeling of the dispossessed so that the next step, the violent overthrow of the state, doesn’t feel like such a monumental undertaking, then I would argue the pedagogic value of retaliating against police by killing one of them each time they kill a Black person, the expropriating of bank funds from armored cars in order to further finance armed struggle as well as community projects such as acupuncture clinics in the Bronx where drug addicts could get clean, and the bombing of major centers of U.S. commerce and governance, followed by trials in which the defendants used the majority of the trial to critique the government rather than plead their case, have as much if not more pedagogic value than peaceful protest. In other words, if not for the “pathological pacifism” (Churchill) which clouds political debate and scholarly analysis there would be no question that the BLA, having not even read Gramsci, were among the best Gramscian theorists the U.S. has ever known.
Frank Wilderson III The Vengeance of Vertigo: Aphasia and Abjection in the Political Trials of Black Insurgents (via animeterrorist)
1. Work without wealth
2. Conscience without pleasure
3. Character without knowledge
4. Ethics without business
5. Humanity without science
6. Sacrifice without religion
7. Principle without politics
*I wonder if those seven are any less dangerous
Batman’s insistence that he can, must, will get into the Strong Male Character box comes close to hysteria, but there’s no room in there for his bat ears and cape and he won’t take them off.
I hate Strong Female Characters by Sophia McDougall
the more interesting thing, tho, will be how this power interacts with the gleeful nihilistic takedowns /exposures already pounced out by ‘the private sector’. soon as snowden’s outed he’s tarnished as a bum otaku sexfiend; meanwhile dzhokhar gets a fandom. how do you blackmail a generation that’s already 95% disclosed before a public that’s basically schizophrenic?
My genes done gone and tricked my brain
By making fucking feel so great
That’s how the little creeps attain
Their plan to fuckin’ replicate
But brain’s got tricks itself, you see
To get the bang but not the bite
I got this here vasectomy
My genes can fuck themselves tonight.
The R-Selectors, Trunclade (from Blindsight by Peter Watts)