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The Darkness from the Darkness | William Giraldi The world prefers us in pain.

With “This is the Door,” Darcey Steinke looks for words to communicate the infinite depths of pain, whether mental breakdown or physical torment. William Giraldi also wonders what lies beneath the suffering, beyond more suffering.

أَصْمَتَ الشُّهُورَ فَهَلَّا صَمَتَّ * وَلَا صَوْمَ حَتَّى تُطِيلَ الصُّمُوتَا يُلَاقَى الْفَتَى عِيشُهُ بِالضَّلَالِ * وَيَبْقَى عَلَيْهِ إِلَى أَنْ يَمُوتَا

—On fasting—
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You fast the sacred months —
so fast from talking: a true fast.

We draw our first breaths in error
and continue misguided to our last.

— al-Maʿarrī (Syria, d. 1057)

Ojalá: Toward an Illiteracy of Liberation In the wake of Gaza genocide, a Palestinian American loses her words — until she finds her way back to language in another tongue.

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sorry to miss takaat in my hometown

Gayatri Spivak on Hegel and Marx with Bernard E. Harcourt @columbia YouTube video by Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought

must-listen lecture on Hegel and Marx

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NEXT WEDNESDAY: Join the CCCCT for our third Hegel 13/13 seminar with philosopher Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. In-person at Columbia Law School or remotely from Zoom. February 25 at 6:15 PM. For more information and to register, please visit hegel1313.law.columbia.edu/3-13/

includes this wonderful piece by Haider Shahbaz:

Collage of mass protests highways crowds cityscapes and drones layered over a globe suggesting global unrest and movement

"Bandung's Cultural Afterlives," a special issue of boundary 2, edited by Hala Halim and Ziad Dallal, is now available. View the TOC and read the editor's introduction, freely available: buff.ly/H8s9S30

En Pointe  | Marina Harss, Lauren Kane “I’m struck by ballet’s ability to create something extraordinarily beautiful out of something so difficult and so taxing on the brain and body.”

“I take the job of transmitting dance’s inner story very seriously.” —an interview with @marinaharss.bsky.social

Günther Anders 'The Obsolescence of the Human' with Christopher John Müller by Hermitix Dr. Chris Muller is Senior Lecturer, Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University.Book link: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912659/the-obsolescence-of-the-human/Other book link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prometheanism-Technology-Critical-Perspectives-Politics/dp/1783482389“Apocalypse Blindness”, Climate Trauma and the Politics of Future oriented Affect (Anders and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road): https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SXZQBDNCNMRRZFXYZT6P/full?target=10.1080/0969725X.2023.2233808 (50 free downloads)“Utopia Inverted" Intro to Special Journal Issue, Anders Technology and the Social: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0725513619865638Prometheanism: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781783482382/Prometheanism-Technology-Digital-Culture-and-Human-Obsolescence (PDF easily downloadable online)Anders & Nuclear Criticism: https://aeon.co/essays/gunther-anders-a-forgotten-prophet-for-the-21st-centuryAnders Podcast Real is not Real Enough: https://www.goethe.de/ins/au/en/kul/lok/gap.html---  Become part of the Hermitix community:  Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix:  Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK  Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74

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These Are the True Things | Naghmeh Sohrabi | Substack I'm an historian who writes about politics, history, and culture of Iran and the Middle East. Also about television, books, and whatever catches my fancy. Click to read These Are the True Things, by N...

For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog:

truethings.naghmehs.com

thank you for sharing. i didn't know about this book. the long quotation you've shared inspires me to read it.

this is infuriating ... there is an insightful sentence in MINIMA MORALIA that criticizes this type of political analysis, the mixing of philosophical idealism and statist tactics

Absolutely blown away by this

Gaza: Trapped by the International Order The war in Gaza has given rise to unprecedented protests in the West and divided the international community between nations supporting and condemning Israel. It has also led to countries like South A...

humanityjournal.org/blog/gaza-tr... as always, faisal devji observes something incontrovertible and then reads it in the most infuriating way (always yearning for a proper politics). have some humility, my god

"The lyrics of 'Viva Palestina' bathe me as the screen shows defiant images of Palestinian life. My tears began fresh again. Alone, I sing along, my grief mingling with anger and finding its first expression in another tongue."

and then to end with both ojalá and inshallah

beautiful, beautiful essay! thank you for sharing

Ojalá: Toward an Illiteracy of Liberation In the wake of Gaza genocide, a Palestinian American loses her words — until she finds her way back to language in another tongue.

Sarah Aziza - Ojalá: Toward an Illiteracy of Liberation share.google/vcVKrEXMxYEZ... stunning piece

"Our government is treating the suffering of the Iranian people as a backdrop for our own entertainment, as if it’s just another piece of content to be swiped through while we’re waiting in line at the grocery store"

Cardinal Blase J. Cupich, archbishop of Chicago

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this is nazi shit

For Mahmoud Khalll, this past year has been marked by profound hardship-and by profound courage. A year ago, Mahmoud was walking home through our city after sharing an iftar with his wife Noor when he was detained by federal agents, flown to Louisiana, and then held in an ICE facility for months. In that time, he was forced to miss the birth of his first child. All of this for exercising his First Amendment rights in protesting the ongoing genocide in Palestine. And yet, even in the face of that cruelty, there has also been beauty. New Yorkers raising their voices in solidarity. A city refusing to look away. Mahmoud won his freedom, and a father was finally reunited with his child. Last night, as we marked the one year anniversary of his detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmoud, Noor, and their son Deen to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. Mahmoud is a New Yorker, and he belongs in New York City.

In a dining room, five people eat, chat and smile around a table of food.

Iftar, Day 19

Ramadan Revolved Around My Grandma. Bombs Took Her House. Famine Took Her Life. Israel’s genocide in Gaza cut off my grandmother’s access to the nutrients and medications she needed to survive.

This is the first Ramadan when my grandmother's chair is empty because she was martyred during the famine, when medicine became a wish and bread became almost impossible to find.

“She refused to take a single bite until everyone had gathered, filling the silence with old Ramadan songs and verses she had memorized in my grandfather’s time…”

cf. chapter 3 of this book

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the god-damned democratic party leadership

tragic times

“Courage is precisely what emerges at the site of failures of disavowal, courage sticks in a way that enjoyment envies.”

nadia bou ali

“a homelessness of despair that can live with the ruination of form in a way that rattles our petit bourgeois comforts…”

nadia bou ali

Dispatches from Beirut Courage sticks in a way that enjoyment envies.

'Why do people resist?...staying with where pain refuses to soften. Keeping vigil with the unbearable, enduring the night where all the cows are black'

Always read Nadia Bou Ali communispress.com/dispatches-f...