Did you say “l’amour”? I thought you said “la mort”!

'In my opinion, the family is probably the first criminal cell, and the most criminal of all.'

- Jean Genet, BBC2 interview, 1985.

A stable headspace for unstable times...

Bad Brains - Stay Close to Me
Death in June - The Rule of Thirds
Floor - Tales of Lolita
Ghostface Killah - Save Me Dear
Grace Jones - This Is
Harbour - Trepanation
Anne-Marie Nzie - Beza Ba Dzo
JFA - Standing on the Verge
Joseph Beuys - Sonne Stat Reagan
Tackhead - The Game (You'll Never Walk Alone)
Tricky - Murder Weapon
Muslimgauze - Qom
Brassica - New Jame City
Mobb Deep - Right Back at You
Poison Idea - Taken By Surprise
Nathalie Natiembe - Epitaf
Oppenheimer Analysis - New Mexico
Unbroken - In the Name of Progression

Education: an open letter reading list

Jacques Derrida - Right to Philosophy 1: Who's afraid of philosophy
Jacques Derrida - 'The University Without Condition' in Without Alibi
Peggy Kamuf - The Division of Literature: Or, the University in Deconstruction
Mary Emma Harris - The Arts at Black Mountain College
Gary Peters - Irony and Singularity: Aesthetic Education from Kant to Levinas
Bernard Stiegler - Taking Care of Youth and the Generations
Catherine Malabou - What should we do with our brain?
Jacques Ranciere - The Ignorant Schoolmaster
Jan Amos Comenius - The Great Didactic
John Locke - Some Thoughts Concerning Education
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Emile (and The Social Contract)
Johann Pestalozzi - How Gertrude Teaches Her Children
Friedrich Froebel - The Education of Man
John Dewey - Democracy and Education (and Art as Experience)

In The Name Of Progression

rain of death falls down.
potuted by this so called technology.
murdering to succeed. not seeing the price that has been paid.
in the name, in the name of progression
industrial insanity forces us to follow
we die they prosper only in death can we stop supporting them
only in death can they not have their way with using the name of progression
if it was real progression greed would not dictate our souls
if it was real progression we'd give back what we stole
if it was real progression we'd burn these lies all down
in the name of progression.

Transgression

Capitalist Aesthetics?

Just narcisscism?

I think that a guy...

'I think that a guy who is always interested in the condition of the world and changing it, either has no problems of his own or refuses to face them.' - Henry Miller, interviewed in Reds, 1980.

Against communism

'Kandinsky also harboured a profound mistrust of every form of Communism...'
- Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus, 1919-1933, 2002.

Wassilly Kandinsky, Composizione Paesaggio, 1915.

'The question of property is the question about the proper property, which belongs to the proper "person" : that is, of the proper "wealth" (or "glory" - or, this is the same in a way, the proper "sense"). Such a proper property may only be common. As private, it makes no sense (sense for a single one is no sense at all) ; as collective it makes the same effect for the collective is a single - mechanical - unity, not the plurality of the common.

Common is the adequate word for the properness of being, if being means ontologically being “in common”.'

Jean-Luc Nancy, text sent by the author to the 'Idea of Communism' conference at Birkbeck University, 2009.

A poetic introduction...