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AMARU’S TONGUE: DAUGHTER a film by JOSHUA CHUQUIMIA CRAMPTON & CHUQUIMAMANI-CONDORI. A trance-like vision from the beyond filmed between two cutting-edge contemporary artists.

A very beautiful film

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Tämä ruumis on auki, kesken, liukuva, liukas, muljahteleva, äkkisyvä, häivähtävä

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Reading Kathy Acker Approaching one of the most provocative authors of our time.

"Surprise, as Truman Capote had argued decades earlier in relation to Jane Bowles, is at the heart of aesthetic pleasure, along with that other element not normally associated with Acker, namely, beauty."
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FLUID DYNAMICS: THE ART OF ADRIANA VAREJÃO Adriana Varejão, Azulejaria “De tapete” em carne viva (“Carpet-Style” Tilework in Live Flesh), 1999, oil on canvas and polyurethane on aluminum and wooden support, 59 x 74 3/4 x 9…

"Here the baroque is the madness of structure itself, structure that morphs into its other, rather than simply standing as its opposite." www.artforum.com/features/flu...

Don Cherry Appreciation Post: Watch a Documentary and a Bunch of Astounding Live Sets | In Sheeps Clothing The Oklahoma City-born, Los Angeles-raised horn player Don Cherry has been consuming a lot of research and turntable time over the past few months, at least in this particular satellite ISC listening room. An artist who worked with genius instrumentalists including Ornette Coleman, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler, Charlie Haden, Nana Vasconcelos, Ed Blackwell, the Watts Prophets, James Blood Ulmer and dozens more, Cherry came up in the thriving LA jazz scene, and was educated at a young age through formative interactions with trumpeter Clifford Brown, saxoph...

"The thing about Cherry is that the more you dig, the more you realize the profound breadth and depth of his work … "

Don Cherry Appreciation Post — Watch a Documentary and a Bunch of Astounding Live Sets:

Los Thuthanaka, by Chuquimamani-Condori & Joshua Chuquimia Crampton 8 track album

great new music losthuthanaka.bandcamp.com/album/los-th...

Sylvia Wynter: Beyond man Radical philosopher, Sylvia Wynter calls on us to rethink the very notion of what it is to be human.

Sylvia Wynter: Beyond man | A film by Marcela Pizarro, Stefania Sottile and Pomona Pictures.

Feminist Fascisms | Grace Byron Sophie Lewis’s new book opens up possibilities for excitement about what feminism could be—if only we could sit with its past.

"More specifically, it’s an antipathy to “femme”-ness that unites them, by which I mean the self-consciously artificial labor of pleasure-oriented—and therefore queer, excessive—femininity."
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Pierre Joris (1946-2025): Seven Minutes on Translation The prolific poet, essayist, translator, and anthologist Pierre Joris died today after a long battle with cancer. Back in 2011, he wrote us these “Seven Minutes on Translation.”

"Because translation & its social counterpart, miscegenation, are the only things that can possibly make this world a safer & more viable place." (RIP Pierre Joris)

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this is a lovely book!

a lovely new record by Ale Hop & Titi Bakorta, on the great Nyege Nyege Tapes
nyegenyegetapes.bandcamp.com/album/mapamb...

listening to Blue Notes

reading Cristina Peri Rossi

"Smith moves from form-as-content to form as a decadent luxurious fullness, overriding content with an optic hedonism. Reclaiming the Baroque, the screen seems to burst forth with layered images, characters, colors, sets." www.arielzaccheo.com/blog/the-eve...