up to

been busy
this month
so far
with

secret plans

fig27a the way we get by

trust me
there are more
plans to come

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grammar nazis fuck off

random people ive

misfortunatley run cross

seem take up the mantle

grammar nazi

like its cute

like its ok

beating folks over the figurative

head

smudging them into language ghettos

lettin em fend for theyselves

in cut throat intern camps

its called grammar shaming

exhibit 29,666-y to the 3rd i have a bad feeling about this

just because you spout back

whatever rules were shoved

downthroat at whatever

grade or secondary echelon

doesnt make you cool

doesnt make you hip

a language dudnt have rulllles

it has conventions

but people cant let

there be fun

in language

cant just let 

anyone

run amok with

commune

ication

that would be

chaos

nevermind that

ye olde english

ran hundreds of years

before samuel beckett

& noah webster

just fine

or that lexiconigrapherists

just make shit up

according to how they see language used

no we need to have like they got

one of them central committees of language

like in france

right

wait

shit

with no apologies to the dead kennedies

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why you cannot dislike facebook

once again
tni hits the proverbial
nail in the balls

Negative sentiment – disliking – is asymmetrical in its power to shape consumer’s opinions of a brand: for every 10 likes, 1 dislike could tear a brand apart.

go ooooon

But we are not allowed to dislike. And herein lies a way out of the Like Economy. Dissent, dissensus, refusal are not easily afforded in Facebook. Dissenters have to work for it: they have to write out comments, start up a blog, seek out other dislikers. They are not lulled into slackivism or “clickivism,” replacing the work of activism with clicking “like” on a cause as if the sheer aggregate of sentiment will make someone somewhere change something

i am a selfstyled
disliker
of all the hundreds of folks
ive known
i am one of three
to ever opt out
of the facebooks

ive long hated it
first the bougie elitism
with which it left
alumni of my school
out of its loop

later its sicklysweet
commercialization
anything commerce
picks up with such a frenzy
is to be

deeply

distrusted

but what a great picture
amirite

fig23a death to myspace

bloody brilliant phrase
sovereign consumer too
because it can never be you
personally
it is an abstraction
you personally
are a servant
just like all the rest of us
from the c suite to the pee moppers

we serve
the idea
that nothing is free

not even freedom

i gave my facebook profile to a homeless man

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enough is enough you don't have to suffer any more

the following document
is the sixth declaration of the selva lacandona
from the zapatistas
published in 2005

yknow in some ways
we owe to them the existence
of any resistance

fig22a the inclusion of womens rights
a particularly good inclusion
for a machismo society

to neoliberal hegemony

this piece of correspondence
is unique in its humble language
thorough analysis
empathy

accessibly
you see
you feel
tangible connection
to the plight
of the people
our economy
crushes

che
said merikans
are lucky
living in the belly
of the beast
we are uniquely situated
to relieve the anguish
of millions
billions

but i see it as a responsibility
a challenge

yeah
just as soon as we figure
out

what we can do
that would make a difference
at all

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news from across the pond

theres a great occupation
going on in sussex

you wont hear about it yet
in mainstream merika news
if ever
because occupations
are like
so 2011

& foreign news is meaningless
unless someone is blowing
up merikans

but once again id like
to point out
the loverly bbcs take
or well
supt grenville wilson
of what i can only assume
is the sussex pd

when officers arrived at Sussex House there was some resistance to their pressure and some coins were thrown.... At this point force could have been used, such as batons, by the officers but a decision was made for officers to step back from the situation for the safety of the protesters....

hot damn if that aint
the language of the patriarchy
i dunno what is

you know i oughtta beat your ass

i just picture
officer walker from the wire
sorry thats as good a quality
as i could get for a link

we should all be so grateful
when we are not abused
by police

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call for cartographers & treasure-hunters

but books
my friend said to me
after reading
my last post
youre encouraging
dangerous behavior

people get hurt
lost
worse

you have to understand
risks

& fact is
can't control them all
have to inoculate
in a sense
cuz eventually

you encounter your ocp
outside context problem

then its tits up anyway
you slice it

you want it sooner
or later
you wanna stay home
watch tv die of sloth

fig19a THOSE WOLF MECHANICS BANGING THOSE WOLF MECHANICS CRASHING

or like our common ancestors
get lost
make maps
pioneer
encounter
grow

& yeah yeah
whole world is mapped
they say
spinny satellites
& robot cars

but those arent your maps
arent our maps

when was the last time
you drew a map
elementary school
middle school
highschool
college

ever

you have a mental one
in your head for
crying out loud
its never come out

has the world
ever
had the pleasure
of seeing its topography
in your eyes
like the portrait
of a lover
or a poem

or do you fear
the laws & guardians
sheepdogs

fig19b dont disregard the discarded

do you miss
the secret scavenged treasures
hiding in the pavement cracks
& alleyways

accepting only what is safe
sanitized
lifeless

you cannot have an identity
when you are taking
dictation
in the form of goods
services
lifestyles

it is dangerous
to be
human

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in defense of adventure

"Adventure is just bad planning." - Roald Amundsen

"Adventurism: the heretical notion that you should actually have fun when doing something." - Rolling Thunder, vol 10

it is said

there should be no

adventure

no surprises

push for

consistency

no unknowns

value stability

see it

hear it

from mouths

i like having a routine

of course it looks

common

it looks

normal

to want

a nice & settled life

pasturized

occupied

as both in busy & oppressed

because

anyone who wants adventure

has been killed

jailed

outlawed

exiled

fig18a the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls/ and tenement halls

our society

wants to sell

sensation of adventure

to stimulate

the innate human need

without letting it

get out of hand

catharsis

enabling you to stir

orgasm relax &

work again

art

which may have once served

a purpose altogether different

is now media

& masturbation

of the adventure instinct

we did not get here

by staying

at home

explore.

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must we be mediated throughout

do good
for the sake of it
& others will join you

if they can still recognize good
at all

funda
mentally we need
a change of
social
     structure

turning reputation
into credit
& hedging our friendships
our current course
wrong as usual

fig17a many players would kill for a chance to monetize your social capital

Why waste your time on outcasts or low-status losers who can’t improve your reputation?
shit
im in trouble now

then theres those organizers
who say we are not activists
we are friends
act like friends

share
things & intimacy
it means vulnerability
to people
surprisingly
like you

it means no
management
trust
mutuality
reciprocity
not for profit
out of respect
love

so god at the risk
of sounding like a hallmark
card

lets get our heads
out of our asses
& into our hearts

hey
you think hallmark would buy that one
kidding
only kidding

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meditation on mortgages

we have an obligation

not to hand our agency over

not to rob another
of their agency

& to instigate
a little joy

while alive

mort dead
gage pledge

in
deed

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link minded folks

organizing as if social relations matter

its always vindicative
when i find someone thinking
along lines
i also walk

Organizing, good organizing, is to my mind the slow, steady, one-on-one building of relations and interconnections that are at odds with how people are treated under capitalism.
go on
im listening

Instead of instrumentalizing people for what they can give us or do for us, we look to each other as having worth unto ourselves, and for how we can cement relations of sociability, collaboration, and solidarity

Expedient activism falls apart under its own flimsy weight; there’s little there to sustain it, especially when the going inevitably gets rough or disappointing. Here, patient and what appears to be joyful organizing might just have a fighting chance of leaving something in its wake
that speaks to my experiences
socialist sectarianism

beliefs in changing
behavior & culture
creative relationships
transcend isolation

it takes work
says cindy milstein
something i am learning also
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at home

reaching out
finding people
putting effort
not into sign
waving ranting
spectaclework

socalled actions
recognizing instead
building the world we want
begins with living the life
we believe in

As now-deferred prospective student after student got up to read their varied, often-eloquent remarks, or have them read by a current Cooper Union student or an alumni, for upward of an hour, it became clearer and clearer how much work went into finding, educating, involving, and gaining the support and participation of these frequently far-afieldpotential students.
not
mind you
a population
who would seem
accessible useful
in an
expedient way

beautiful
also

That no tuition, even within a hierarchical and select structure, still manages to engender a tangible freedom to imagine social goodness, and the freedom (of thought and financial constraints) to organize in more imaginative as well as qualitative ways
in the face
of the anarchists
& far leftists
not though the sectarian socialists
in this case

but in the face
of those who want to bring it
all down now now now
with a brick

yes yes yes
sympathies
we want it to be so easy
revolution happens suddenlike
but there must be
work lessons compromise
failures effort love
changing culture
changing material
changing structure

i look forward to reading more
from this beautiful blog

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dont call it chaos

"Their error arises from their failure to allow there are different kinds of order. If researchers seek only the kinds of order with which Westerners are today familiar, they will miss, or reject as disorder, all other orders."

makes me think
of every time ive heard
dismissals about chaos

in whose eyes
you have to wonder

are we missing
opportunities
for other orders
other stories

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all these rappers sound the same

b in the d
there was a soviet union
some of you remember it

we
extraordinarily blessed people
of united states of america
we were free

as demonstrated
by the vast diversity
of our prodcuts

communism
we were told
are still told

fig11a in soviet russia fashion shows you

leads to generic
brown label
monotony
rationing shortages conformity
&c &c &c

desire for blue jeans
& david hasselhoff dressed in christmas lights
brought down
the whole idea of

collectivism

but it isnt collectivism
that stifles
it is bureaucracy

ask anyone in line
at the dmv

i have proof

right here

i love the twin cities
hasselhoff can eat it

doomtree is the freshest
most alive hiphop
i have heard in my life
no single rapper sounds alike
they stand out from the mass
produced by record labels
out from the assembly line
that pumps rap into the ghetto
like a drug like crack like propaganda

this is i think the perfect dynamic
of individualism collectivism

coming together to showcase talent
to build something evolutionary
to have one anothers backs & beats
could it be
doomtree shows us another way

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(mostly) survivors all

fig3a naturally we will equip ourselves with smartphone apps....

daps to my friend eclectricbreakfast
for this choice article
analyzing the zombie apocalypse
(yet again)

importantly this piece of text

which i think illustrates well
the position
we unconsciously take
from inside the consumerist recession

Neoliberalism and bourgeois culture places the individual (the self) at the centre of the universe. From this perspective the bulk of society appear as an immense collection of herd-like Others engaged in an array of apparently meaningless and mundane activities. You and your immediate circle are the individuals. The rest are a homogenous mass.
each little subculture
a bastion of us versus them
we have it right
and the rest consume media
mindlessly

fig3b its obvious

its more interclass competition
who is more adapted
to survive the neoliberal apocalypse
well of course those who are ready
to sacrifice their friends and family
on the alter of getting by

we long for work that is fulfilling
nothing is more that than survival

when face with a lack of real change
& that eternally recurring drudgery
of walking death

you could outfit every zombie with a bluetooth
only to give the narrative
a garishly particular spin

what do you want
a solution
a way forward?

well you cant spell collaboration
without labor

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you cant compete with the state they have guns

one of my goals for this year is to finish at least volume two of capital by karl marx.

the introduction by ernest mandel has so far been one of the most revealing & compelling parts of this book
it presents the weapon manufacturing industry as the tireless backbone of capitalism

meaning when all other industries fail there will always be a market for weapons

meaning capitalism will never fail entirely with this basis in existence

there will "always" be state & private markets for weapons

the state has a monopoly on violence -
this is part of the marxist definition of the state
even violence against wild animals has to be state sanctioned in industrialized nations

marxism broadly reflects that in the absence of a final
crisis
meaning no natural death for capitalism or the state
armed insurrection illegal violence
is the only method for packing it away once & for all

kind of goofy to try to beat it at its own game

the state will always resort to violence when it has to in order to get people to behave the right way

& snever the white collars who wear the nooses in mass

even with dedicated leadership the strongest armed insurrections can only wreak so much change for so long

because violence has to do with coercion & power paradigms & competition

so those are the paradigms that need to be challenged usurped & changed

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inspiration for the modern hobo

i watched the first disney movie in a long time tonight that i actually liked

the journey of natty gann

it's about a little lady during the depression hopping trains and eating out of garbage cans and generally escaping THE MAN's clutches on the way to reunite with her dad in washington after he had to leave her behind looking for work

so it's obviously like a disney movie family values kid with animal feel-good times etc and so on
but one thing i liked about it besides the occasional swear and a little bit of smoking and violence and general riffraffery is a young strong female protagonist

kind of reminds me of katniss of the hunger games fame
so i guess i would be wrong to say they wouldn't make a movie like the journey of natty gann today because they sort of have even though the hunger games is a dystopia and natty gann takes place in the real world arguably also dysoptian but i digress

this scene towards the beginning of the buxom middle-aged hotel owner powdering her face and bullying scrappy natty around in her fathers absence reminds me of the makeup debates going on in the feminist blogging circles

im inclined to be like yeah
sgood to feel empowered when everything tries to take your agency away
just as important to realize that what you do with your agency is important too - you know jumping trains organizing shit workplaces and fighting oppression blah blah blah

disney movie for cryin out loud! i haven't seen this much capital-r RRResistance in a disney movie in anything before or after 1985

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