June 2012
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toujoursgai replied to your post: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am…
I’m really feeling these book posts even though I’m guilty of 1. reblogging a lot of book spams on this site and 2. buying a lot of books (but like you, i buy new releases because I have fines in all my libraries). I think the whole ebooks aren’t tangible things you can touch!!1one! debate is partly to do with a...
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strontiumcapybaracommando:
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…I can’t articulate it exactly, but there’s something about this being a randian hero living in a mound of books like Scrooge McDuck in his piles of pennies that gels very well with the idea of literature where it has to have “proper plot and characters dammit! or it’s just some faggy bullshit to screw snobs out of their...
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zuky:
Revered art spirit Beyond counting syllables Most folks don’t get it
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concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am actually mostly in favour of large personal book collections. I have several hundred books on my shelves and another 200-odd at my parents’ house that I could reclaim if I wanted to. the house I grew up in has a couple thousand books, probably, and that was great.
why? I like having a lot of unread books around that I don’t have to...
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NT intervention extended for a decade, Aboriginal... →
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more needs to be said on yarn-bombing, apparently
winged:
just because people don’t like a form of art you perceive as worthy doesn’t mean that you should degrade another form of art. That doesn’t make other people see the value in traditional tagging/graffiti, it doesn’t draw attention to art as a creative force, all it does is handwave people’s efforts.
Graffiti is art. Mural painting is art. So is yarnbombing, seedbombing, etc. It’s...
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here is a thing that happened the other day
I will let you draw your own conclusions from it.
my friend has a friend who has been in immigration detention for over two years now. he is, obviously, miserable and vulnerable. she worries about him a lot.
last year he was transferred interstate with no notice because that’s how the Department of Immigration and Citizenship rolls. then he got really sick because he was sleeping in...
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i don't give a fuck about how you fuck: or, your...
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your poly is only politicaly relevant to me if…
you center respect and love for women and femmes in how you do relationships.
you understand and care about how your actions in relationships are directly connected to the well being of your communities. (y’all know that this shit breaks up friendships and communities all the time.)
you are aware of and work to resist heterosexist...
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pomegranates are the most OCCULT fruit by the way
but I’m p. sure turnips are the most OCCULT vegetable so maybe it’s not a good food guide
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The "i have no time" privilege post (attn: white...
machamechamama:
I have many many problems with centralizing privilege as an organizing strategy. One of the biggest is that individual USians love individualism and being individual and doing individual work with individuals cuz we’re individuals. Everybody likes to say structure and more than two things at once and it’s complicated, but everything—EVERYTHING—in US politics shows otherwise.
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yeyejoijoi-deactivated20121231 asked: "I thought Canada was kind of similar?" -- Yes the maj. of CA pop. is in cities. However suburbs have never been poor (some exceptions apply, eg halifax/africville?). So we do not see the phenomenon of 'gentrification' of the suburbs. How interesting! Most of our gentrifiers come from the suburbs and move into the city (older and poorer neighbourhoods), not necessarily CBD, but...
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yeyejoijoi-deactivated20121231 asked: "especially in gentrifying suburbs;" Sorry, so in NZ/AU are suburbs a bastion of affordable housing where rents are becoming unaffordable due to an influx of higher purchasing power? Or are you using some other definition of gentrification? In some Canadian cities, the reverse is happening (ie suburbs were upper-middle class, but they are moving into the 'walkable'...
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The NT Government is being urged to address a law... →
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spenceroar replied to your post: do you think it’s impossible to express dissent towards a capitalist system, through street art, if you’re middleclass? the idea that cute paste-ups are erasing, in their acceptability, is so valid. thanks
You should be studying sociology. Legit.
hahahaha
thanks for the encouragement but I am studying sociology
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Anonymous asked: do you think it's impossible to express dissent towards a capitalist system, through street art, if you're middleclass? the idea that cute paste-ups are erasing, in their acceptability, is so valid. thanks
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terrorbull asked: I'm interested in your ideas about "personality" as a concept. I am not as big a theory person as you (obvs), but do you talk about personality not being a "real" thing because people use their "personality" as a cop-out and a way to not hold themselves accountable or challenge themselves? Sorry if this is a totally simplistic question.
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tanacetum-vulgare asked: Yeah man. Extreme Couponing is an American reality TV show where they have someone who's really into coupons in the most intense way go on a big shopping trip and see how much they can get for how little money. Every single one has a binder of coupons, a garage stockpile of products, and from what I've seen, they all walk out with between $300-1000 worth of stuff and I think the most I...
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there's our catastrophe: ryrysparkleby: apparently... →
strontiumcapybaracommando:
ryrysparkleby:
apparently sheila jeffreys’ new thing is she thinks that sex workers spend all day getting their head bashed against the bedhead in time with the thusting motion…and when she is giving talks she acts it out with her head banging rythmically against her hand. my friend wanted to tell her, ‘just move down the bed, Sheila.’ ourcatastrophe
kind of lol
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becoming-wave replied to “Empty nesters shouldn’t be forced to move” : um… well they could try incentives rather than force. “move into a 1bdrm and it’ll be cheaper anyways and we’ll even give you half priced rent for a year, pay moving expenses, etc.” something like that. a lot of ppl would go for it.
They’re not going to be able to do it truly voluntarily, I...
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ryrysparkleby:
apparently sheila jeffreys’ new thing is she thinks that sex workers spend all day getting their head bashed against the bedhead in time with the thusting motion…and when she is giving talks she acts it out with her head banging rythmically against her hand. my friend wanted to tell her, ‘just move down the bed, Sheila.’
kind of lol
but also, seriously, this is an example of...
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Empty nesters in public housing shouldn't be... →
According to a report in The Australian last week, the Queensland Housing Minister, Dr Bruce Flegg, is proposing to forcibly move public housing tenants with empty bedrooms into smaller dwellings.
…There’s a good case for a more efficient matching of dwellings with household size, given there are as many as 10,000 technically homeless households on the waiting list. However forcing...
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I will forever side eye white academics who study...
transartorialism:
glitterlion:
pistols-and-koolaid:
glitterlion:
But why? As it pertains to Black studies courses: many Black students do not go on to obtain Master’s degrees in such courses. And the number of Black students obtaining PhDs is on a steady decline in this area. It’s really sickening. We can’t side eye white academics when Blacks aren’t doing the research.
And why can’t...
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"Classism" is an anti-working class concept
class-struggle-anarchism:
Just reading this bollocks about something called “classism” from this links and resources post that was going around … ooft it’s a pile of shite.
The group that make it are called ‘class action’ and their logo has the subheading:
“building bridges across the class divide”
Which pretty much sums it up. They want to smooth out relations between the classes by...
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ends and means/beginning as you mean to go on...
my philosophical problem with utilitarianism is in the artificial separation it draws between ends and means (and realising that as a teenage animal liberationist is what got me into anarchist thought, if you were burning to know).
I am all about holding ourselves responsible for our inactions as well as our actions, and judging things by their effects rather than by your intentions if you could...
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guys bragging about how much they love to eat pussy is the new guys bragging about how hard they can fuck you god’s gift to women, aren’t you all
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Our condolences for those families who have lost...
riserefugee:
RISE is highly critical of AMSA’s rescue centre not taking immediate response despite receiving calls from the vessel indicating it was experiencing difficulties on Tuesday 19th of June 2012. It took over 40 hours, since receiving the call, until the Customs and Border Protection flight departed from Christmas Island to search for the boat. Deaths are sure to be expected. This is...
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laceninja asked me why I hate yarn-bombing
and a couple of other people asked me to make my answer rebloggable, so:
In brief: Public art is essentially a reclamation of public space. That means you need to think carefully about who you’re reclaiming it for and from, and why.
Interventions into public space that have a cute, indie aesthetic (like yarn-bombing, seed-bombing, paste-ups, and to a lesser extent stencil graffiti) are...
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januarydaze asked: new coburg installations as of last week - seriously large yarn bombed main square near the library. it's an art piece the council has paid for, it's all over the shop and must have taken a whole bunch of people a seriously long time.
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laceninja asked: Why do you want to burn yarn?
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I also want it to be more widely appreciated that squaresome’s response to questions like “can you take this woman I just met to the hospital? But not the local hospital, she hates the doctors there, the hospital across town” is reliably “I’ll be there in ten minutes”. like it is not everyone who would immediately ditch their plans for a total stranger.
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