Sunday, July 30, 2017
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
Mailer on Black Power
“[T]hose well-ordered epochs of capitalism which flushed the white wastes down into the black heart are gone — the pipes of civilization are backing up. The irony is that we may even yet need a black vision of existence if civilization is to survive the death chamber it has built for itself. So let us at least recognize the real ground of Black Power — it is ambitious, beautiful, awesome, terrifying, and has to do with nothing so much as the most important questions of us all — What is man? Why are we here? Will we survive?” – Norman Mailer, 'Black Power' (1968)
Solanas on the couple
Valerie
Solanas heeds the atomizing function of the
couple: “Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of
isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will
leave him if she is exposed to other men or to anything remotely
resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and
from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the
suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids.”
Valerie Solanas, SCUM
Manifesto (New York:
Verso Books, 2004), p. 48.
Sunday, July 23, 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
Haiku (after Brecht)
after Brecht
Sitting by the roadside.
The driver changes the wheel.
I am impatient.
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Monday, July 10, 2017
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Monday, July 3, 2017
Sunday, July 2, 2017
Saturday, July 1, 2017
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