tabula|rasa

"A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:07:46 -0400

“A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.”

- Albert Camus (via writersbloqinc)

"...the value placed on the color of skin is always and everywhere and forever a delusion." ~ James A. Baldwin

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:35:58 -0400

#JamesCone || The Cross and the Lynching Tree :: #nextup...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:19:52 -0400

#JamesCone || The Cross and the Lynching Tree :: #nextup #summerreads

just finished today. really insightful, critical and compelling...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:17:54 -0400

just finished today. really insightful, critical and compelling read. highly recommended! #MarkAnthonyNeal || Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities

ereyes312: I See Better by ~deathfish

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:16:08 -0400

ereyes312:

I See Better by ~deathfish

"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always..."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 09:12:43 -0400

“In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create. What spark of humanity, of a possible creativity, can remain alive in a being dragged out of sleep at six every morning, jolted about in suburban trains, deafened by the racket of machinery, bleached and steamed by meaningless sounds and gestures, spun dry by statistical controls, and tossed out at the end of the day into the entrance halls of railway stations, those cathedrals of departure for the hell of weekdays and the nugatory paradise of weekends, where the crowd communes in weariness and boredom? From adolescence to retirement each 24-hour cycle repeats the same shattering bombardment, like bullets hitting a window: mechanical repetition, time-which-is-money, submission to bosses, boredom, exhaustion. From the butchering of youth’s energy to the gaping wound of old age, life cracks in every direction under the blows of forced labour. Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.”

- Raoul Vaneigem (via marlkarx)

iwannatalktou

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:56:39 -0400

iwannatalktou

“I collect these essays in the name of a future pragmatism no longer parochially bound to its...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 11:51:00 -0400

“I collect these essays in the name of a future pragmatism no longer parochially bound to its American provenance but unwilling to deny its genealogical engine, committed to the naturalism of the motto (and manifesto) just mentioned and, if I may now add, committed to the radical thesis that the self is a hybrid artifact of biological and cultural evolution that makes possible the entire run of the uniquely enlanguaged forms of human intelligence, thought, understanding, reason, feeling, experience, activity, conduct, creation, and knowledge that marks our race for what it is.” ~ Joseph Margolis, Pragmatism Ascendent: A Yard of Narrative, A Touch of Prophecy

For African and African-descended peoples were of little or no philosophical or anthropological significance to those who have been the designators, historians, practitioners, and mediators of the discipline's institutionalized canons of issues, figures, agendas, conceptual and methodological traditions, problem-sets, texts or text-analogs, organizations, and institutions. The pre-Modern histories of African and African-descended peoples; the centuries-long colonized, enslaved, and otherwise utterly dehumanizing unfreedom of Black peoples throughout the continents of Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Caribbean; the rapacious unjust exploitation of their bodies, lands, resources, and life-opportunities—all of these went mostly without explicit comment in the discipline of Philosophy, not even as a focus of protest, notwithstanding all of the vaunted concern within the discipline for conceptions of freedom, justice, equality, human nature, and human well-being generally. Even as European and European-descended philosophes of the eighteen, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries fashion decidedly new philosophical anthropologies, socio-political philosophies, and philosophies of histories into complex Enlightenments to ground and guide quests to realize the global instantiation of Modernities in which reason-guided freedom and justice would be foundational to the spread of the racialized, capitalist civilizational projects of Eurocentrism (Amin 1989), there was almost total silence about the intended and unintended consequences for peoples African and of African descent—except for claims that colonization and enslavement would bring them much needed “civilizing.”

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:08:20 -0400

- Lucius T. Outlaw, Africana Philosophy (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

I just called her your name…

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:56:43 -0400

I just called her your name…

Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities by Mark Anthony...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:43:00 -0400

Looking for Leroy: Illegible Black Masculinities by Mark Anthony Neal x currently reading, highly recommend (cultural theory)

A Weltanschauung: “Nihilism is the breakdown of the order of meaning, where all that we...

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:14:24 -0400

A Weltanschauung: “Nihilism is the breakdown of the order of meaning, where all that we...:

a-weltanschauung:

“Nihilism is the breakdown of the order of meaning, where all that we previously imagined as a divine, transcendent basis for moral valuation has become meaningless . Nihilism is this declaration of meaninglessness, a sense of indifference , directionlessness or, at its worst, despair that can…

palinode

Fri, 07 Jun 2013 06:35:58 -0400

so there’s this one girl…

she is something special, no—someone special

to me

we’ve got a past—some history, you could say

i do say

i really dropped the ball—back in our history that you could say and i do say

i think i’ve regained my dribble, my rhythm—it’s been more than a year almost

but she’s not here—around, to see it, per se

but i still miss this special girl—no, woman

beautifully bold, ravishingly calm—placid—frighteningly assured

i’m—absurdly—holding on to this hope, this chance, this maybe we’ll resume another history, a new one

as i sit at this airport, i’m thinking about her

i wonder

Beauty Resides Inside—and i want to meet her

wunnadem rainy days

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:09:04 -0400

wunnadem rainy days

The Next Move: A Conversation with J. Cole | The Hiphop Archive

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 23:06:44 -0400

The Next Move: A Conversation with J. Cole | The Hiphop Archive

daniellemertina: it’s a special denial of humanity to suggest that if a black woman does something...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 16:16:22 -0400

daniellemertina:

it’s a special denial of humanity to suggest that if a black woman does something you dislike that she is aggressive and angry and irrational and “lost her shit.”

nothing but patriarchal white entitlement. that me asserting my humanity (my boundaries and ensuring that i’m respected) is me being angry and threatening

y’all do way too much. black women are human too.

White Student Union (Documentary) Reflection It really is...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 15:58:00 -0400

White Student Union (Documentary)

Reflection

It really is uncanny just how much religion and politics/power are bedfellows. The Constantinian Christianity that so characterizes our country—as Dr. West lays out in his 2004 Democracy Matters—is definitely on full display here in the short documentary.

PLEASE WATCH!

There is no way I could endorse any expression or conception of Christianity that is so blatantly tied to this kind of separatist, racist, schismatic thinking and rhetoric. It’s amazing how God is, somehow, always on those same separatist/racist’s side too, isn’t it?

Susan B. Anthony had it right when she said:

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.”

wordscanbesexy: heatherbat: callmebliss: hellotailor: rubdown...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:55:31 -0400

wordscanbesexy:

heatherbat:

callmebliss:

hellotailor:

rubdown:

lovelymoonbeams:

stunningpicture:

‘Cause people seem to only post the 20-something Audrey Hepburn

this is genuinely the first photo i’ve seen of her looking older

I didn’t know Audrey Hepburn grew old into a bomb-ass old lady until like, last year. I thought she died young cuz that’s the only pictures I’ve ever seen.

omg

<3

she was also the granddaughter of a baron, the daughter of a nazi sympathizer, spent her teens doing ballet to secretly raise money for the dutch resistance against the nazis, and spent her post-film career as a goodwill ambassador of UNICEF, winning the presidential medal of freedom for her efforts.

and history remembers her as pretty.

\o/

and history remembers her as pretty.

and history remembers her as pretty.

and history remembers her as pretty.

Crunch Time x Cole

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 01:53:59 -0400

“Inside of me, lord I know, it’s a lie that we gon be fine, but momma I’m tired of cryin, just lie to me one more time.”

mentalalchemy: littleteashi: You should have heard by now from...

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:01:20 -0400

mentalalchemy:

littleteashi:

You should have heard by now from the news and at twitter about what happened in my country…

.. I’m fucking crying.