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ebompraquemgosta: Clayton Cubitt

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:54:59 -0500

ebompraquemgosta:

Clayton Cubitt

nevver: Try harder.

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 16:08:24 -0500

nevver:

Try harder.

thisrecording: Little as Catherine was in the habit of judging...

Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:41:26 -0500

thisrecording:

Little as Catherine was in the habit of judging for herself, and unfixed as were her general notions of what men ought to be, she could not entirely repress a doubt, while she bore with the effusions of his endless conceit, of his being altogether completely agreeable. It was a bold surmise, for he was Isabella’s brother; and she had been assured by James that his manners would recommend him to all her sex; but in spite of this, the extreme weariness of his company, which crept over her before they had been out an hour, and which continued unceasingly to increase till they stopped in Pulteney Street again, induced her, in some small degree, to resist such high authority, and to distrust his powers of giving universal pleasure.

- Northanger Abbey

lilichka: CMI Brasil - [forarruda] fotos de hj 10/12 parte 2

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:17:34 -0500

lilichka:

CMI Brasil - [forarruda] fotos de hj 10/12 parte 2

newleft: pieto: Situationist Theses on Traffic by Guy...

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 13:00:02 -0500

newleft:

pieto:

Situationist Theses on Traffic

by Guy Debord

1

A mistake made by all the city planners is to consider the private automobile (and its by-products, such as the motorcycle) as essentially a means of transportation. In reality, it is the most notable material symbol of the notion of happiness that developed capitalism tends to spread throughout the society. The automobile is at the center of this general propaganda, both as supreme good of an alienated life and as essential product of the capitalist market: It is generally being said this year that American economic prosperity is soon going to depend on the success of the slogan “Two cars per family.”

2

Commuting time, as Le Corbusier rightly noted, is a surplus labor which correspondingly reduces the amount of “free” time.

3

We must replace travel as an adjunct to work with travel as a pleasure.

4

To want to redesign architecture to accord with the needs of the present massive and parasitical existence of private automobiles reflects the most unrealistic misapprehension of where the real problems lie. Instead, architecture must be transformed to accord with the whole development of the society, criticizing all the transitory values linked to obsolete forms of social relationships (in the first rank of which is the family).

5

Even if, during a transitional period, we temporarily accept a rigid division between work zones and residence zones, we must at least envisage a third sphere: that of life itself (the sphere of freedom and leisure — the essence of life). Unitary urbanism acknowledges no boundaries; it aims to form an integrated human milieu in which separations such as work/leisure or public/private will finally be dissolved. But before this is possible, the minimum action of unitary urbanism is to extend the terrain of play to all desirable constructions. This terrain will be at the level of complexity of an old city.

6

It is not a matter of opposing the automobile as an evil in itself. It is its extreme concentration in the cities that has led to the negation of its function. Urbanism should certainly not ignore the automobile, but even less should it accept it as its central theme. It should reckon on gradually phasing it out. In any case, we can envision the banning of auto traffic from the central areas of certain new complexes, as well as from a few old cities.

7

Those who believe that the automobile is eternal are not thinking, even from a strictly technological standpoint, of other future forms of transportation. For example, certain models of one-man helicopters currently being tested by the US Army will probably have spread to the general public within twenty years.

8

The breaking up of the dialectic of the human milieu in favor of automobiles (the projected freeways in Paris will entail the demolition of thousands of houses and apartments although the housing crisis is continually worsening) masks its irrationality under pseudopractical justifications. But it is practically necessary only in the context of a specific social set-up. Those who believe that the particulars of the problem are permanent want in fact to believe in the permanence of the present society.

9

Revolutionary urbanists will not limit their concern to the circulation of things, or to the circulation of human beings trapped in a world of things. They will try to break these topological chains, paving the way with their experiments for a human journey through authentic life.

nevver: All Things Awesome

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:59:47 -0500

nevver:

All Things Awesome

"Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating..."

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:50:24 -0500

“Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it’s much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.”

- Slavoj Žižek (via newleft) (via unburyingthelead) (via fuckyeahtheorists) (via seaponies) (via guerrillamamamedicine) (via thecurvature)

lagartazul: nevver: Japan

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:48:31 -0500

lagartazul:

nevver:

Japan

ateaquitudobem: (via sundays and tea)

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 12:48:26 -0500

ateaquitudobem:

(via sundays and tea)

laerte mente 06 - Manual do Minotauro

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:38:24 -0500

laerte

mente 06 - Manual do Minotauro

"What it is really a shame is that John didn’t influence Yoko as much as Yoko influenced him. This is..."

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 19:30:46 -0500

“What it is really a shame is that John didn’t influence Yoko as much as Yoko influenced him. This is why we, Lennon’s fans, could not forgive Yoko: We don’t get to see a lot of him in her, because what John left her, she has had keep very deep deep inside her.

Now crossing our hearts I ask you: Is there anybody who sincerely feels they have the right to blame her because of that?”

- Juan Forn in Pagina 12, translated from Spanish by Jorge Artajo

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neverneverland: if you want to see the girl next door, go next door. — joan crawford (l)

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:34:28 -0500

neverneverland:

if you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

— joan crawford (l)

elvira: viceroy: nevver: 12:08 East of Bucharest

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:20:21 -0500

elvira:

viceroy:

nevver:

12:08 East of Bucharest

danielferraz: FreakAngels » Episode 0079

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:19:32 -0500

danielferraz:

FreakAngels » Episode 0079

nightmarebrunette: worldonfire: seaofsin: bigfun: nevver: Yasmin...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:55:25 -0500

nightmarebrunette:

worldonfire: seaofsin: bigfun: nevver: Yasmine Chatila

sexismandthecity: The Manifesto of the 343 Sluts (le manifeste...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:54:41 -0500

sexismandthecity:

The Manifesto of the 343 Sluts (le manifeste des 343 salopes), is a declaration signed by 343 women admitting to having had an abortion, thereby exposing themselves to criminal prosecution. The manifesto appeared in the French magazine Le Nouvel Observateur on April 5, 1971.

The text of the manifesto was written by Simone de Beauvoir. Here’s the beginning:

“One million women in France have an abortion every year.
Condemned to secrecy, they have them in dangerous conditions when this procedure, performed under medical supervision, is one of the simplest.
These women are veiled in silence.
I declare that I am one of them. I have had an abortion.
Just as we demand free access to birth control, we demand the freedom to have an abortion.”

The women above are Françoise Sagan, Simone de Beauvoir, Gisèle Halimi & Catherine Deneuve.

lilichka: anthropophagous: Bingen 04-12-2009

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:54:11 -0500

lilichka:

anthropophagous:

Bingen 04-12-2009

McDonald's tells 17 yr old trans job seeker Zikerria: "We do not hire faggots."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:44:25 -0500

McDonald's tells 17 yr old trans job seeker Zikerria: "We do not hire faggots.":

ebompraquemgosta:

transpride: ihatethismess: (via thegang)

resaltador: aleprieto: Si agregara esos ítems a un...

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:06:19 -0500

resaltador:

aleprieto:

Si agregara esos ítems a un presupuesto, no habría nadie dispuesto a pagar el monto final. La solución es otra. (vía sisifo).

lilichka: loveandzombies: thethickness: killingbambi: via...

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 08:58:17 -0500

lilichka:

loveandzombies:

thethickness: killingbambi:

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