-SP 67, La strada della Tramontana Scura, Roberto Schena.
City architecture affects the way the mind works. North American roadways and urban scapes span on such massive scale that the long night driving from the terminal limits of the city on the shoreline to home puts me in a lucid revery where every sight of the port cranes towing yards water line lights shipping barges spaces under slender arcs of bridge or soothing berm curves of concrete off ramps is significant in its brutalist insignificance. No matter how many times I drive this city at night I am enthralled by something formless out there. For I still don’t know what all this points to, signifies.
Bloody interesting. What I wonder about though are the (apparently legitimate) statistics behind this, which you can examine here. There are half numbers. Fractions. On average 15.5 people out a million die of lightning strike in Swaziland per year, and 10.1 in a million from snake bite in India. What constitutes a half or 0.1 death? If these numbers aren’t just hard numerical averages rounded up, I really want to know.
(digital-remixes)
download ruin remixes made by some of our internet friends and family
… and also get amped for R U I N 4.
‘Jasmine (Demo)’, the new single from Jai Paul. Infinitely danceable for all those seszual slow shufflers out there.
No matter how primitive a community is, it is against any type of oppression.
-Suwardi Surjaningrat
Petrit Halilaj
Bourgeois Hen, 2009
Drawing on paper.
The Paris Commune 1871
To the National Guardsmen of Paris
March 19, 1871
You charged us with organizing the defense of Paris and of your rights.
We are conscious of having fulfilled this mission: aided by your generous courage and your admirable calm, we have chased out the government that betrayed us.
At this time our mandate has expired, and we yield it, for we don’t claim to be taking the place of those who a revolutionary wind has just overthrown.
So prepare and carry out your communal elections, and as a reward give us the only one we ever wished for: seeing you establish the true republic.
In the meanwhile, in the name of the people we will remain at the Hôtel-de-Ville.
Hôtel-de-Ville, Paris, March 19, 1871
The Central Committee of the National Guard
Assi, Billioray, Ferrat, Babick, Edouard Moreau, C. Dupont, Varlin, Boursier, Mortier, Gouhier, Lavalette, Fr. Jourde, Rousseau, Ch. Lullier, Blanchet, J. Grolard, Barroud, H. Geresme, Fabre, Pougeret
(Translated: from the original for marxists.org by Mitch Abidor)
This is me tomorrow night. Who wants to come bliss out?
