We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

Buckminster Fuller 

Bucky Fuller, #fullcommunist.

(via towerofsleep)

(Source: ansil, via towerofsleep)

there is nothing more alienating than having one’s pleasures disrupted by someone with a theory.

Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love (via Gukira)

(Source: fableandfolly, via peatea)

http://oogaboogastore.tumblr.com/post/49782779068

(Source: humancats)

We are trained to hang in, hang on, hang together. This, after all, is the lesson of graduate training. “It will get better,” we assure students who struggle to learn. We are so definite. Were we more honest, we would say, “it might get better,” “perhaps,” “maybe,” or, simply, “we don’t know.” Instead, we say, “there are no guarantees, but.” And that “but,” that barely uttered, barely hearable “but” carries so much weight. Everyone wants to hear the “but.” Everyone invested in the academy is always hearing the “but.” We are a community organized around “but.” Lauren Berlant calls this “cruel optimism.

On Quitting - Keguro Macharia

…intellectuality of the masses does not at all mean the diffusion of humanist-bourgeois general knowledge into the whole of society, but rather a tendency for the cognitive to become common…

Gerald Raunig, Factories of Knowledge, Industries of Creativity P64-65

halfletterpress: A digital print of a statement from Jean Toche of Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG) that he mailed to us in February 2013. Jean is over 80 years old now and has been on a rampage, mailing us declarations and endorsements like this multiple times a week!

halfletterpress:

A digital print of a statement from Jean Toche of Guerrilla Art Action Group (GAAG) that he mailed to us in February 2013. Jean is over 80 years old now and has been on a rampage, mailing us declarations and endorsements like this multiple times a week!

Work, Walls, Wealth: Artistic Labour and the Commons

Lecture: Alberto López Cuenca (Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico)

Since the Industrial Revolution, artistic labour has held an ambiguous position within the logic of the capitalist market. While it has been materially inscribed in the general working conditions set forth by capitalism, it has not always conformed to those conditions. While it has been part of the logic of the market of symbolic goods, it has not been totally regulated by that logic.

In this ambiguity lies the capacity of artistic labour to activate social processes that foster precisely that which is threatened by the logic of the market: social wealth. In opposition to the privatisation of labour and material resources that capitalism demands, social wealth—from ideas to land and software—is shared and held in common. In the conditions set by the financial global economy, it is relevant to ponder whether artistic labour can still work for the enrichment of this collective wealth.

13th Istanbul Biennial Public Programme continues with Public Capital (11th May 2013)