Rene Magritte

Fixed Idea (1927)Empty Mask (1928)Palace Curtains (1929)Violations (Attendat)(1937)

Workin' Poor

The only people I ever heard talk about my Lady Poverty
Were rich people, or people who imagined themselves rich.
Saint Francis himself was a rich and spoiled young man.

Being born among the working people
I know poverty is a hard old hag,
and a monster, when you’re pinched for actual necessities.
And whoever says she isn’t is a liar.

I don’t want to be poor, it means I’m pinched.
But neither do I want to be rich.
When I look at this pine-tree near the sea,
That grows out of rock, and it plumes forth, plumes forth,
I see it has a natural abundance.

With its roots it has a natural grip on its daily bread,
And its plumes look like a green cup held up to the sun and air
And full of wine.

I want to be like that, to have a natural abundance
And plume forth, and be splendid.

- DH Lawrence, "Poverty"

Through the Looking Glass

I am Kino Eye

Broken Clock

Aratan N Tinariwen

Zizek on the Communist Failure

...and the "jouissance" inherent in nationalism/fundamentalism

Fetishizing Authority

Loneliness