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Meeloox - TRP2

Steaua de Mare - După ce au plecat pescărușii

This is the audio recording of Professor Judith Butler's public lecture at trinity College on Thursday February 5th, 2015: Vulnerability and Resistance Revisisted. 

Judith Butler - 'Vulnerability And Resistance Revisited'

Prof. Dr. Bojana Kunst - The project horizon: On the temporality of making

Annotations and transcribed highlights: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/16/neil-gaiman-how-stories-last

Recorded at the Long Now Foundation (http://longnow.org/) on June 9, 2015. 

Follow @https://soundcloud.com/longnow and subscribe to the podcast of their excellent seminars on long-term thinking on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/seminars-about-long-term-thinking/id186908455?mt=2

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Neil Gaiman on how stories last

Recorded for Brain Pickings. Background and poem text: http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/07/02/amanda-palmer-reads-wislawa-szymborska

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Amanda Palmer reads "Life While-You-Wait" by Wislawa Szymborska

I thought I wasn't writing, but I wrote these.

Bleeding (out)

There isn’t a way to dissect you from my body, or I would have done it already. You know how hard it is for evergreen vines to recover from devastating pruning and yet you wield hatchets and jigsaws as if in the circus. I bought two rainbarrels because I figured at some point one would get tainted with my heartbreak and no amount of iodine can make that water safe to drink. My socks leave a reversed welt at the double knit cuff—I keep moving it up and down periodically so that you will have an obvious red-ringed ladder to climb, you will know where to go. Lovers shouldn’t need marked paths, it should be about sonar range. I could close my eyes and click my way across the trainyard, across the mall, up every waterfall and not get plowed, mugged, or drowned. My hungry click finds your breast, falls madly asleep, and wakes unsown.


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Amie Zimmerman called us from Portland, OR. 

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"Echolocation" by Amie Zimmerman

I am often caught hollering at homeboys
and homothugs in the stairwells of labored
White parties. Kissing spliffs before
familiar tongues. These are our bodies.

My eyes were caught looking at homeboys
and older boys with better bodies and
better masks. Momma said there would be
days like this, boys like you–pretty.

Take the tensions, tender and tragic.
Disrobe to see our reflections in still
waters.

My hands were caught feeling myself.
Alone and with you for the first time,
before we knew the danger in our bodies. I
prefer you holding me-tight, squeezing
infantile strokes, pressing innocence into
careful quiets.

I am often caught in the dark, with
familiar failures, hollering at homeboys
and whispering profanities.


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jayy dodd called us from Jamaica Plain, MA. 

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"Homeboy" by jayy dodd

steam press, poem by marchi wierson at @madeofsaltwater

Background, discussion, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/11/david-whyte-vulnerability/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality

Photograph by Nicol Ragland

David Whyte reads "Sweet Darkness"

Background, context, and full text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/11/david-whyte-vulnerability/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/david-whyte-the-conversational-nature-of-reality

Photograph by Nicol Ragland

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David Whyte reads "Vulnerability"

Background, context, and transcribed text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/13/james-baldwin-the-artists-struggle-for-integrity/

Recording by Pacifica Radio Archives.

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James Baldwin: The Artist's Struggle for Integrity (full lecture)

Sand

An extended re-edit of Boards of Canada's 'Reach For The Dead' - because it's so incredible and way too short. Hope you like, might only be up for a short time.

Please go and pre-order the album 'Tomorrow's Harvest' if you enjoy this http://www.boardsofcanada.com/

David Whyte reads "Vulnerability"

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