Dirty Librarian Thoughts

Queer Embraces: guide to getting lost

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:59:02 -0700

The seam meets him at a party one night, at a mutual friend’s house & the attraction is, for a change, equal. It’s something beyond the way he speaks: the tone of his voice, gentle and sweet, the way he challenges what I utter, something purer, something just beyond language, pre-cartographic.

"Young people are stringing together multiple unpaid internships, and it’s not always helping them..."

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:19:51 -0700

“Young people are stringing together multiple unpaid internships, and it’s not always helping them find a job — breaking an implicit promise that has drawn a generation of workers into offering their work for free.”

- Unpaid internships: the most precarious work of all | Toronto Star

Is anybody really goddamn surprised? A generation nobody seems to want to employ is instead offering their skills—by the way, they’re one of the most educated generations to date!—for free, because that’s what people told us we’d have to do to get good jobs (though they told us that about the expensive education, too, and we know where that went). And the same people who told us our educations weren’t good enough to get us in are now exploiting our free, trained labor and we’re still not good enough to hire? I’M SHOCKED.

(via theshadowofwyveraryborealis)

Daniel Spaulding on Communization, Occupy and the Spectre of Aesthetics

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:18:08 -0700

Daniel Spaulding on Communization, Occupy and the Spectre of Aesthetics

likeafieldmouse: Bas Jan Ader - Primary Time (1974) “Depicting...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:17:20 -0700

likeafieldmouse:

Bas Jan Ader - Primary Time (1974)

“Depicting the constant reorganization of a flower arrangement, yellow, red and blue flowers in a mixed assortment are constantly swapped and reconfingured until suddenly they are composed entirely of flowers of one color.

The strangest thing about the progression is that its consequence is not obvious: in the lead up to the red arrangement, for example, red flowers are added and removed apparently as often as the other colors.

Like a conjuring trick, you are only aware of what is going on at the moment it happens and it is too late to try and track down the process that brought you there.”

"Tumblelogs, by construction, breaks this experience up: Unless you visit individual blogs one after..."

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:49:00 -0800

“Tumblelogs, by construction, breaks this experience up: Unless you visit individual blogs one after the other, you see them intermingled in your Tumblr Dashboard; As a consequence, photographs are reduced to snippets of information — one photo by some artist followed by another photo by another artist, etc.”

- Jörg Colberg, The Problem with Tumblr and Photography (via hyperallergic)

This is precisely why I’m often left feeling overwhelmed by tumblr. I prefer going through folk’s tumblr’s individually; this is why you’ll see my like 5-10 of your posts all at once; it also makes for a more coherent reception of information. Being inundated with images and information, when all I care to do is “catch up” with the latest thoughts and happenings of those I like, makes using tumblr a trying process.

Pelosi Backs Bill That Would Raise Minimum Wage To $10 An Hour

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:43:57 -0800

Pelosi Backs Bill That Would Raise Minimum Wage To $10 An Hour:

stfuconservatives:

Yes! I was really concerned that after the SOTU excitement died down, lawmakers would forget about the minimum wage thing. Pelosi and two other Dems are backing a bill that would make the minimum wage $10.10 an hour and index it to inflation in the future. HUGE deal.

Photo

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:03:29 -0800

Topless Tuesday with Artforum (March 2013 Vol. 51, No. 7)

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:50:47 -0800

Topless Tuesday with Artforum (March 2013 Vol. 51, No. 7)

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether: Nelly van Doesburg, Piet...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:31:47 -0800

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Nelly van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, and Hannah Höch, 1924

June Leaf, Man as a Gutter Spout, 2007

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:28:00 -0800

June Leaf, Man as a Gutter Spout, 2007

June Leaf, Woman with Mirror, 2010

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:27:11 -0800

June Leaf, Woman with Mirror, 2010

June Leaf, Figure Covering Woman, 2010-2011

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:24:39 -0800

June Leaf, Figure Covering Woman, 2010-2011

Photo

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:18:10 -0800

"If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest."

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:01:12 -0800

“If your ancestors cut down all the trees, it’s not your fault, but you still don’t live in a forest.”

- Pam Oliver, a professor in the UW-Madison sociology department, explaining the historical roots of racism in the United States to her undergraduate students (mostly middle-class and White). I try to use this when I teach race now, too, to get past the defensive “but why are you BLAMING ME” reaction. (via cabell)

wnycradiolab: explore-blog: Kurt Vonnegut’s classic lecture on...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:01:00 -0800

wnycradiolab:

explore-blog:

Kurt Vonnegut’s classic lecture on the shapes of stories, now in an infographic.

wholegrainlofat: badveganwolf: turntides: A...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:59:56 -0800

wholegrainlofat:

badveganwolf:

turntides:

A fantastic guerrilla stunt in downtown Vancouver. A giant plastic six-pack ring is tangled on a dolphin sculpture.

Plastics are a serious problem in our oceans - with terrible consequences for marine species, that get entangled often die as a result.

Learn more about the campaign by Plastic Pollution Coalition at http://www.plasticpollutioncoalition.org/

israelfacts: Hundreds of anti-AIPAC billboards have been posted...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:32:08 -0800

israelfacts:

Hundreds of anti-AIPAC billboards have been posted across central subway stations in downtown Washington D.C. proclaiming that “AIPAC does not speak for me”.

Sponsored by the left-wing Jewish Voice for Peace and the Avaaz global advocacy group, the posters were highly visible to many of the 13,000 delegates attending the pro-Israel lobby’s annual conference.

“AIPAC does not speak for me. Most Jewish Americans are propeace. AIPAC is not,” the billboards say.

Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, said: “AIPAC is the NRA of foreign policy lobbies, pushing a rightwing agenda that does not represent the majority of Jewish Americans: Its support for military buildup and endless settlement expansion makes peace impossible. It cannot claim to speak for all American Jews.”

The posters are part of a concerted effort by left-wing groups outside the Jewish establishment to get their voices heard during the three-day AIPAC conference. Protesters from various radical Jewish and Palestinian groups have held vigils outside the entrances to the Washington Convention Center, where the conference is being held, leading to some scuffles with police and AIPAC delegates.

Haaretz

thejogging: Penis Envy (Measuring Michelangelo’s David From...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:21:45 -0800

thejogging:

Penis Envy (Measuring Michelangelo’s David From Afar Shortly Before Being Kicked Out Of Museum), 2013

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inevitablefragments: Egon Schiele - Preacher (1913)

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 10:21:03 -0800

inevitablefragments:

Egon Schiele - Preacher (1913)

nevver: Red State Photographs from the Civil Rights Movement...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 00:23:00 -0800

nevver:

Red State

Photographs from the Civil Rights Movement and era.

From top to bottom:

Bob Adelman, Selma, Alabama, 1965

Bob Adelman, Birmingham, Alabama, 1963

Bob Adelman, Selma, Alabama, 1965