revolution

  • Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments

    Nice addition to the list of fifteen books I posted yesterday. In Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. Free… Continue reading

    Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments
  • Picasso and the Spanish Civil War

    The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University acquired some sketches by Picasso that concern the Spanish Civil War: “The Dream and Lie of Franco.” All above works captured here by my photography may be under copyright and are being posted for… Continue reading

  • Down with Activism; Up with Revolution

    …we imagine that we are revolutionaries when we are nothing more than temporary rebels.  Activism is far from revolution, and the left at the centres of capitalism is dominated by activists and activist groups––NOT revolutionaries and revolutionary movements.  The most popular and predictable… Continue reading

  • revolutionaries and reformers

    A sensitive and honest-minded man, if he’s concerned about evil and injustice in the world, will naturally begin his campaign against them by eliminating them at their nearest source: his own person. This task will take his entire life. Continue reading

    revolutionaries and reformers
  • Castle Perilous

    “Revelation can be more perilous than revolution.” Nabokov Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.   Continue reading

    Castle Perilous