(three links and a request)

- kufigirl on veiling. very worth a read.
- laura’s last post is beautiful. she was at the coast a few days after myself – “with so many bodies drifting, shoving past, it is not difficult to understand atrocities, how people can cease to be people, how violence can be done in the absence of definition. [...]

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in-stallment

half of my blood is cain’s blood
half of my blood is abel’s
- stephen fearing.
the ongoing conversation this week/these months is the latest permutation of the concern for lost years. their past remembrances. it is partially a belated engagement with readings from phil368, “compassion/ obligation/ global justice”, but is something more – between compounded survivor guilt [...]

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memorium

farooq: men are from mars & women are from venus? we should write an islamic version: men are from clay and women are from ribs
b: right, i forgot you were In Love.
b: go write your paper.
…this was some months ago. now all of farooq’s papers are done (“we had a good run, son”) and he [...]

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across. the. lines.

time to check in, i guess. today is tuesday, and this morning there was frost on the ground. got back yesterday from a roadtrip to the mountains and the coast. tonight noor returns from a week riding horses in saskatchewan ; tomorrow babaji returns from turkey/iran ; saturday we butcher chickens ; sunday is penny&elliot’s [...]

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for leaving

fast car – tracy chapman
water in the fuel – fred eaglesmith
one more cup of coffee – bob dylan
hello birmingham – ani difranco
shadow of the whip – harry manx
mighty trucks of midnight – bruce cockburn
urge for going – joni mitchell
guiltiness – bob marley
woodsmoke and oranges – james keelaghan
the bells of morning – stephen fearing
coat of mail [...]

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last paper of the summer

extra points to the first person to call me normatively confused.
That collective resistance is based on communication is a truism. Western activist circles are still rife (albeit with a certain nostalgia) with the vocabulary of “collectivizing” and “solidarity”; these coalitions often establish their commonalities and mutual aims on the basis of confessional communication. The notion [...]

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untitled-2

cohen:
and now the wheels of heaven stop
you feel the devil’s riding crop
get ready for the future: it is murder
or, a new politics of embodiment: “fire at will”.

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when the angels fall

there’s the shame of there being men who became nazis; the shame of being unable, not seeing how, to stop it; the shame of having compromised with it; there’s the whole of what primo levi calls this “grey area”. and we can feel shame at being human in utterly trivial situations too: in the face [...]

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piecing-together

so i’ve mostly stopped writing here, it seems. it was not calculated – i tried starting posts, a few times, but have had to stop because of the space between words. between letters, even. deadening, emptying space: interminable reaches, the border marches.
so i have not written for some time. i may be more regular once [...]

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