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"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:27:33 +0200

““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)

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

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:57:39 +0200

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

- Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love (via Gukira)

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Sun, 05 May 2013 01:08:50 +0200

"We are trained to hang in, hang on, hang together. This, after all, is the lesson of graduate..."

Fri, 03 May 2013 16:05:25 +0200

“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..."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:11:34 +0200

“…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...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 23:09:37 +0200

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

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:39:10 +0200

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)

orgy cake

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:27:10 +0200

orgy cake

I have been thinking about writing, and I’m not sure if I should do it here. Should we...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:26:50 +0200

I have been thinking about writing, and I’m not sure if I should do it here. Should we seperate our own words from the pictures and text we forward from others?

The main thing that has been stopping me is a name. Do pseudonyms and usernames make any sense on the internet any more?

Anyway, I feel like we are not all that well acquainted with one another. Part of me thinks we should keep it that way. The other part of me knows there is no separation and it is only wishful thinking to expect otherwise.

You can reply to this post if you feel one way or the other about this sort of thing…

21.12lbs Pink Aragonite specimen. Origin: Xichan, Sichuan, China

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:45:54 +0200

21.12lbs Pink Aragonite specimen. Origin: Xichan, Sichuan, China

"Comparing salaries among colleagues has long been a taboo of workplace chatter, but that is changing..."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:44:58 +0200

“Comparing salaries among colleagues has long been a taboo of workplace chatter, but that is changing as Millennials—individuals born in the 1980s and 1990s—join the labor force. Accustomed to documenting their lives in real time on social-media forums like Facebook and Twitter, they are bringing their embrace of self-disclosure into the office with them. And they’re using this information to negotiate raises at their current employer or higher salaries when moving to a new job.”

- SO INTO the idea of a massive salary #realtalk sea change ushered in by 20somethings. Jen Doll partly attributes this to Millennials’ penchant for crowdsourcing. (I think she was smirking, but it’s kinda true.)

Also—you knew this was coming—salary realtalk is a tangible way to lessen the blows of the recent decline of real wages. Young workers are always paid less, but transparency can prevent us from being straight-up exploited.

(via minimumragers)

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softstage: The Siamang Gibbon (1883), The Bestiarium of Aloys...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:11:28 +0200

softstage:

The Siamang Gibbon (1883), The Bestiarium of Aloys Zötl (1831-1887)

hippykitchen: RIP so happy i finally had a chance to visit

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:08:40 +0200

hippykitchen:

RIP

so happy i finally had a chance to visit

"[O]ur human experience might be just a small little crumb of what’s possible. If you think of..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:41:28 +0200

“[O]ur human experience might be just a small little crumb of what’s possible. If you think of all the different modes of being, different kinds of feeling and experiencing, different ways of thinking and relating, it might be that human nature constrains us to a very narrow little corner of the space of possible modes of being. If we think of the space of possible modes of being as a large cathedral, then humanity in its current stage might be like a little cowering infant sitting in the corner of that cathedral having only the most limited sense of what is possible.”

- Nick Bostrom

~Massimo De Angelis

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:04:46 +0200

~Massimo De Angelis

~J.K. Gibson-Graham

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:04:32 +0200

~J.K. Gibson-Graham