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Giveaw@y: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 30 July 2023. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaw@ys. For full rules to all of our giveaw@ys, click here.

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Alison Bechdel in her Minnesota apartment 3/16/1990 (photo by Tom Sweeney)

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Un destino construye la vida de un hombre, la historia está formada por la vida de todos nosotros. Yo no quiero contar la historia de manera que no se pierdan los destinos de los hombres... Ni de un solo hombre.

En Chernóbil se recuerda ante todo la vida "después de todo": los objetos sin el hombre, los paisajes sin el hombre. Un camino hacia la nada, unos cables hacia ninguna parte. Hasta te asalta la duda de si se trata del pasado o del futuro.

En más de una ocasión me ha parecido estar anotando el futuro.

Svetlana Alexievich, "Entrevista de la autora consigo misma" en Voces de Chernóbil. Crónica del futuro p. 56

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Todo lo que conocemos de los horrores y temores tiene que ver con la guerra. El gulag estalinista y Auschwitchz son recientes adquisiciones del mal. La historia siempre ha sido un relato de guerras y de caudillos, y la guerra constituía, digamos, la medida del horror. Por eso, la gente confundía los conceptos de guerra y catástrofe. En Chernobyl se diría que están presentes todos los rasgos de la guerra: muchos soldados, evacuación, hogares abandonados... Se ha destruido el curso de la vida. Las informaciones sobre Chernobyl están plagadas de términos bélicos: átomo, explosion, heroes,... Y esta circunstancia dificulta la comprensión de que nos hallamos ante una nueva historia. Ha empzad la historia de las catástrofes.... Pero el hombre no quiere pensar en esto, porque nunca se ha parado a pensar en esto; se esconde tras aquello que le resulta conocido. Trasel pasado. Hasta los monumentos a los héroes de Chernóbil parecen militares.

Svetlana Alexievich, "Entrevista se la autora consigo misma" en Voces de Chernóbil. Crónica del futuro. PP. 47 - 48.

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from Letters of Note

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“Jungle was best enjoyed as an anonymous electro-libidinal current that seemed to pass through producers, as a series of affects and FX that were de-linked from authors. It sounded like some audio unlife form, a ferocious, feral artificial intelligence that had unwittingly called up in the studio, the breakbeats like genetically-augmented hounds straining to be free of a leash.”

— Mark Fisher. Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology, and Lost Futures. Zer0 2014. (via criminal-delirium)

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Giveaway: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) I know… there are only 11 pictured here. You’ll get to choose the 12th from hundreds in my giveaway stack.  Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 26 June. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

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Giveaway: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) I know… there are only 11 pictured here. You’ll get to choose the 12th from hundreds in my giveaway stack.  Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 26 June. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

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There must be a hundred records with voice-overs asking, "What is house?" The answer is always some greeting card bullshit about "life, love, happiness...." … House is not universal. House is hyper-specific … The contexts from which the deep house sound emerged are forgotten: sexual and gender crises, transgendered sex work, black market hormones, drug and alcohol addiction, loneliness, racism, HIV, ACT-UP, Tompkins Square Park, police brutality, queer-bashing, underpayment, unemployment and censorship—all at 120 beats per minute.

“Midtown 120 intro” Terre Thaemlitz

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Berserk. Chapter 153.

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Berserk. Chapter 153.

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Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl. Extras 1.

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Berserk. Chapter 146.

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Berserk. Chapter 146.

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Berserk. Chapter 146.

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Berserk. Chapter 146.

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Not to sound Romantic or anything, but I too have a striking fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque.