December 2010
4 posts
Things that hurt...
strawberrytelle:
Being unsure of how someone feels about you.
Feeling like they are mad at you.
Being misunderstood by people you care about.
Being judged by people you care about.
Feeling like you lost something that was never yours.
Feeling like you’re doing too much.
Thinking you aren’t doing enough.
Not knowing if you should say something.
Worried about what they’ll think if you do...
“We all only live once. So we are obligated to make good use of the time that we...”
– Julian Assange
Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This person is using celestial colors to paint your image. Someone is making you into a vision so beautiful that it can only live in the mind. Someone is thinking of the way your breath escapes your lips when you are touched.
How your eyes close and your jaw tightens with concentration as you give pleasure a home. These...
Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The poetics and... →
academicreading:
By Michel-Rolph Trouillot, in Recapturing Anthropology.
For Rousseau, as for More and Defoe, the savage is an argument for a particular kind of utopia. For Iselin and Meiners, as for Swift and Hobbes in other times and contexts, it is an argument against it… The nineteenth century blurred the most visible signs of this thematic correspondence by artificially separating utopia...