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  • Lines, Contours, Frames

    Definition is what comes after the act: to define. To define is to presume meaning. The definition then is what draws out the lines, contours, and boundaries; it is what offers the meaning. So is the good/evil in the act, to define, or in the definition? Equivalently, is it in creation or in the creature?  Read more

  • The lunatic, and their discourse

    Art is a social activity one can say. For even a canvas in isolation is an intermediary between at least two identities trapped within the singularity of the body behind it: alternating between artist and spectator, synchronously, every time the brush is pushed against the canvas or pulled away; I paint then I am a Read more

  • No prisons without anarchists

    “Only the ‘good-hearted’ falls for Hamas’s [Palestinian] narrative” what a western media official had to say on current events. Deceit does not involve a lie necessarily. Rather a deformation of the truth, for the real devil in this case was in the tonality: one of sarcasm and pity. But who else but the good-hearted would Read more

  • How to kill a communist

    Maybe after all the difference between a kid who dropped out of school to sell weed versus that who did to become an entrepreneur is simply the ease/accessibility of the “path taken.” While both will learn the “principles of life” commenced at supply, demand, and greed, the first path is more egalitarian: anyone can sell Read more

  • Everyday is Ash Wednesday

    If state is the exercise of power in the form of regulation of social antagonism, the church in 18th century Europe was a state that chose church imperialism as means for such regulation. Assuming “politics” then is simply a pointer at the “act of politiking,” redistribution of the perceptible, then what is the redistribution of Read more

  • Rap about democracy

    Rap music was revolutionary not because it brought the animals of the underworld to the art scene. Other mediums did it prior, although to a lesser extent. Rap music was revolutionary because through atomizing the Song, it democratized it: it liberated the art of music and symphony, on one hand, and the literary art of Read more