Archive for February, 2020
Lee Miller | Women Firewatchers, London (1940)
“I will get a map of London to see where Hackney is” – Ed Dorn “. . . left the ruins, climbed out from under the white stones” – Amiri Baraka (((1))) …
Source: Sean Bonney | Notes on Baudelaire – BLACKOUT ((poetry & politics))
Techno-punk legend Andrew Weatherall plays his favourites past and present; ranging from contemporary indie bands to the pounding 909s of early acid house.
Source: Andrew Weatherall Presents: Music’s Not For Everyone | NTS
I’ve been listening to old sets by Andrew Weatherall all day, mostly from his long-running show on NTS, Music’s Not For Everyone. Like a million other people, I’m still shocked by news of his death…
. . . as Jackie Wang put it after discovering that there was a pdf of her Carceral Capitalism floating around on the web and being shown a photo of a student at some uni reading it, “This is truly the highest honor a writer can receive! Who needs the validation of literary awards when the kids are out there pirating your work instead of paying attention in class :)?”
Source: Zeitgeist Spam
Passengers in Milan wear face masks after a coronavirus outbreak in Italy. Experts do not recommend healthy people wear masks.Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images
5 things you can do now to get ready for an outbreak.
Source: How to prepare for coronavirus: 5 steps you can take – Vox
Information about handwashing and hand hygiene
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United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres argued passionately for women’s equal rights across the globe in a speech to The New School in New York this week, calling for the end of “default male thinking.”
Source: UN chief says ‘women’s inequality should shame us all’ | TheHill
A reformist, overshadowed by a revolutionary.Win McNamee/Getty Images
Rebuilding social and political trust requires procedural reforms that don’t excite voters.
Source: Elizabeth Warren: the one candidate who gets America’s crisis of trust – Vox
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