Mateo Giraldo B.

Who, in the ascent toward the ether, can trust that they know how to steer the chariot of the five: Daimon, Tyche, Eros, Ananke, Elpis?

Aby Warburg

"If we wanted not to take someone seriously, or to limit their rights or status, we would act as if their speech were just noise, an incoherent moan, or a cry, as if that person lacked reason and were therefore exempt from being a subject."

Hito Steyerl, Art Duty Free

richards graft apples, painted by william henry prestele, 1893

richards graft apples, painted by william henry prestele, 1893

"We contemplate the same stars.
The sky is common to us.
The same firmament surrounds us.

What does it matter by what mental process each one investigates the truth?

Such a great secret cannot be reached through a single path."

—Prudentius, Libri contra Symmachum, pp. 97, 98.

Then, last September, came the opportunity to talk with leaders of Birmingham's economic community. In the course of the negotiations, certain promises were made by the merchants--for example, to remove the stores' humiliating racial signs. On the basis of these promises, the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth and the leaders of the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights agreed to a moratorium on all demonstrations. As the weeks and months went by, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise. A few signs, briefly removed, returned; the others remained. As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us. We had no alternative except to prepare for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and the national community. Mindful of the difficulties involved, we decided to undertake a process of self purification. We began a series of worksho

Martin Luther King Jr. beschreibt in seinem "Letter from Birmingham City Jail", wie die Bewegung taktisch den Ausgang der Bürgermeisterwahl abwartete, um diese nicht negativ zu beeinflussen und nicht einem rassistischen Hardliner ins Amt zu verhelfen.
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For something brutal to happen there must be micro-pressures that sting and explode into great physical-nervous damage, torture and, in the end, death.
Regrettably, that's how it works, and we quickly forget the anguish and the cause of dread.

The small (micro) violence engenders the big catastrophic violence.
The worst war we have is when there is no equality of "weapons" or tools (knowledge or material forces) to defend ourselves; when one participates in the daily and great injustice.
But how do you balance loads in a moving world?

If there are people in the world who still call for war, it is because they do not know or do not want to know about the war that is being activated in the present moment and that has been prolonged for years in spots of apparent comfort, security, unlimited consumption and "free expression".

Palestinian citizens, including children, are searching through the rubble of a collapsed building, inspecting their property after a tower was bombed by Israeli warplanes in Gaza City. Photo by Samar Abu Elouf for The New York Times.

Israel and Gaza were at war after Palestinian militants launched one of the biggest attacks in years from the Gaza Strip. Within hours, Israeli fighter jets began airstrikes on targets inside Gaza. Here are images from the assault and its aftermath. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/07/w...

Nearly 1,000 Birds Die After Striking Chicago Building At least 961 birds died in one night in Chicago after crashing into the windows of the McCormick Place Lakeside Center during the height of the fall migration.

At least 961 birds died in one night after crashing into the windows of a building in Chicago. “I’ve been in Chicago for 40 years and bird-watch all the time and I’ve never, ever seen anything like that,” a local conservation ecologist said.

This photo in todays New York Times got to me. War and terror try to end hope of humanity. #war #terror

‘Chance of a century’ – could department store become Berlin’s first central library? City’s culture minister hopes to turn Galeries Lafayette store into German capital’s ‘new living room,’ but critics question likely cost

Department stores to libraries
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Data from Nielsen shows the second #GOPDebate aired by Fox Business and simulcast on Fox News and Univision was the top-rated program on all of television Wednesday evening, pulling in 9.5 million overall viewers.

Humanity at Large | The Point Magazine Growing up as I did in a decidedly nonartistic family, there were only two artists for my Colombian mother and grandmother—Gabriel García Márquez in literature […]

“The picture’s peculiar combination of elegance, bawdiness, sensuality and erudition isn’t just a perfect example of Botero’s style—for me, it was a model of the sensibility with which I’ve strived to live my life.” New on Forms of Life, John Michael Colón pays tribute to Fernando Botero:

Fenando Botero's painting Still-life with Watermelon

Fernando Botero (Colombian, 1932-2023) - Still-life with Watermelon, oil on canvas, 1973. Source: www.tumblr.com/psikonauti.

Fernando Botero, Archangel, 1986. Oil on canvas

Monsters of Ireland.

The arts (material-symbolic expressions in space and time) are the history of peoples-beings that does not yet exist.

Talking about inequality and indifference towards poverty and the intervals of marginalized beings:

"There is a crime that goes beyond all denunciation or claim. There is a pain that tears cannot silence. There is a failure that drowns all our triumphs."

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck