Each Crumbling House, Melody S. Gee
LAURYN HILL, rolling stone #806 (february ‘99) photographs by mark seliger
Structural violence creates lopsided structures of the imagination. Those on the bottom of the heap have to spend a great deal of imaginative energy trying to understand the social dynamics that surround them—including having to imagine perspectives of those on the top—while the latter wander about largely oblivious to much of what is going on around them. That is, the powerless not only end up doing most of the actual, physical labor that is required to keep society running, they also do most the interpretive labor as well.
— David Graeber, Dead Zones of the Imagination
You can read the rest of the article here in the Journal of Ethnographic Theory— it’s worth the time
Florence Welch for the Observer Magazine photographed by Lillie Eiger
hanif abdurraqib, “on marathons and tunnels,” in a little devil in america
Ma Ei, Centres of Cataclysm: Celebrating Fifty Years of Modern Poetry in Translation; from ‘Out of Sight’, tr. Pandora & Stephanie Norgate
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings
“I’m making myself. I’ll make myself until I reach the core.”
— Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life
Kapurush (The Coward) (1965) dir. by Satyajit Ray
“I wish that I could leave myself alone. I wish that I could finally feel that I punished myself enough.”
— Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist (via m-haitch)
“My mind is bisexual. It’s easy for me to love a woman. It’s also easy for me to love a man too” and “I believe that a good actor would be androgynous, and ever changing,” referencing his performance of intersexuality, androgynous dressing, and gay femininity in his music videos and films" - Leslie Cheung
Adonis, Selected Poems; “Beginnings of the Body, Ends of the Sea” (tr. Khaled Mattawa)
The Sacrifice. Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky. 1986.