objetpetita:

I lead a life much below my level. Beyond the books, which trickle in slowly (I have to read what I can get, not what I have a mind to read), I have nothing to sustain my inner life; and everything around me exudes an indescribable prosiness, which presses down on me too with its brutal weight. Nothing on the order of a stroll with a dear person, not one hour of quiet and serene contemplation–all is tainted by mundane worry and staleness. I take it that productive creators fence themselves off from their environment by a certain regimen of living, a certain organization of their daily routine that does not allow the workaday banality, humdrum job, and the rest of it to get to them. I badly feel the lack of such a regimen, my incapacity to subject myself to such a discipline. One must, for instance, fence off one’s inner life, not permit the vermin of ordinary cares to infest it. Some blindness used to protect me from this truth; I wore blinkers like a horse in harness. Now reality has won and penetrated my interior.

― Bruno Schulz in a letter to Roma Halpern, October 29, 1938

‘A kind of dark realism’: Why the climate change problem is starting to look too big to solve

swimthroughthedirt:

In the daunting math of climate action, individual choices and government policies aren’t adding up.

Solar
panels are being nailed to rooftops, colossal wind turbines bestride
the plains and oceans, and a million electric vehicles are on U.S. roads
— and it isn’t enough. Even if the world did an unlikely series of
about-faces — halting deforestation, going vegetarian, paying $50 a ton
carbon taxes, boosting energy efficiency, doubling car mileage, and more
— it would not be enough.

“There’s no silver
bullet,” said Andrew Jones, co-founder of the modeling firm Climate
Interactive. “There’s silver buckshot: many actions in many domains.”

As
the 24th U.N. conference on climate change kicks off this week, a
steady drumbeat of scientific reports have sounded warnings about
current climate trajectories. One warned of
the need to curb global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — 2.7 degrees
Fahrenheit — over preindustrial levels instead of the widely accepted
target of 2 degrees Celsius. Another warned
of the growing gap between the commitments made at earlier U.N.
conferences and what is needed to steer the planet off its current path
to calamitous global warming.

If it sounds downbeat, that’s because it is.

‘A kind of dark realism’: Why the climate change problem is starting to look too big to solve

Peculiar Diary Entries Of Franz Kafka.

violentwavesofemotion:

  1. “The sight of stairs moves me so today.”
  2. “So much light and so empty.”
  3. “It is no ordinary bird that flies out of a chimney.”
  4. “The village square abandoned to the night.”
  5. “The silhouette of a man, his arms half-raised at different levels, confronts the thick mist in order to enter it.”
  6. “The remarkable light of the summer evening together with the nocturnal emptiness of the bridge.”
  7. “Between throat and chin would seem to be the most rewarding place to stab.”
  8. “I believe them both and I love them both, or try to.”
  9. “The evil spirits gain entry into a person who drinks out of an imperfect glass.”
  10. “…and in the meantime it is all over with me.”

Some Favorite Essays, Short Stories, Novels

smakkabagms:

Essays:
1. Helene Cixous – Laugh of Medusa 
2. Anne Carson – Evil and Suffering in Modern Poetry 
3. Kathy Acker – Myth of Romantic Suffering
4. Virginia Woolf – On Not Knowing Greek 
5. Adrienne Rich – Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying
       – Adrienne Rich – Three Other Essays 
6. Alice Walker – Looking for Zora 
7. Anna Klobucka – Helene Cixous & Clarice Lispector
8. Joan Didion – On Self-Respect
9. Margaret Atwood – Am I a Bad Feminist? 
10. Jeffrey Meyers – The Savage Experiment: Arthur Rimbaud
11. Jennifer Nash – Practicing Love 
12. Paul J. M. van Tongeren – “A Splendid Failure” Nietzche Suffering
13. Albert Henrichs – 

Loss of Self, Suffering, Violence: Dionysus 

Short Stories: 
1. Clarice Lispector – Love 
2. Anne Carson – 1 = 1
3. Margaret Atwood – Stone Mattress
4. Amy Bloom – Silver Water
5. Gunnhild Øyehaug – Same Time, Another Planet 
6. Anne Carson – Back the Way you Went 
7. Tatyana Tolstaya – Unnecessary Things
8. 

Kirstin Valdez Quade –

Christina the Astonishing (1150-1224)
9.  Clarice Lispector – One Day Less

Novels:
1. Helene Cixous – Stigmata 
2. Helene Cixous – Ex-Cities 
3. Helene Cixous – Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing (my favorite)
4. Jean Genet – A Thief’s Journal (another link)
5. Judith Butler – Bodies that Matter
6. Clarice Lispector – 

AGUA VIVA  (my favorite)

Happy Holidays, friends. I hope you enjoy. – Love, E 

liluchihahurt:

lovewitch2016:

just want to say that countries like sweden and austria deporting brown and black gay men and forcing them go back to uganda or afghanistan or other nations that kill and jail people for being gay because those men don’t “look or act feminine/gay” is a blatant example of racialized homophobia. and this is why i keep reiterating that orientalism is dangerous for lgbt people of color, why i keep saying that homonationalism plays such a huge role in the oppression of lgbt people of color – and i say this bc it’s not just cishet whites who spread these homophobic and racist stereotypes about what “looking gay” entails, but it’s also white gays who back them up by talking about how “inherently homophobic” nonwhite / nonwestern people are, and how nonwhite / nonwestern people are “failing” to live up to some gay Gold Standard of appearance / gender non conformity and gender expression / gayness itself. fuck all white people, gay or straight, for putting the lives of nonwestern lgbt poc and nonwhite lgbt refugees at risk. 

I cosign this with the passion of 1000 suns