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collective insight, 2024 by Rahm Bowen

24”x36”, acrylic on canvas

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Nikki Giovanni (7 June 1943 - 9 December 2024)

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please help me on children 😭😢

Hello, my name is Mahmoud from Gaza. I have four children... Since October 7th, everything has been destroyed. Our house was bombed and my children, Rital and Lian, were injured. She is sick with nerves and needs treatment. Also, my wife was injured in the spine and needs treatment abroad...

I want you to donate and help my children or share this post with others.. Thank you very much for your support and generosity towards us....

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Nikki Giovanni, June 7, 1943 / 2022

(image: Nikki Giovanni, February 1970. Photo: © Jack Robinson)

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“As we implement our new strategy of replacing tents based on areas and encampments most in need, we want to share with you this story of a family in dire conditions - this is the brother of the honorable martyr Refaat Alareer.

We have known about this extended family and the area they live in since mid July. However, it was not until this week that we could come in and serve this encampment of destroyed and makeshift tents.

Just to show you that no one in Gaza is immune to the suffering and pain, Refaat Alareer’s family, despite his magnitude as a Palestinian scholar and activist, is living in some of the worst tents we have seen.

It was our honor to assist them and respect the legacy of the man who we are so fortunate to have been given permission to name our camp after. Check back later in the week to see how we provided tents for Refaat’s brother’s family and supported the encampment that needed so much help.”

Please continue to give so we can serve these communities with shelter this winter. The Tents, Cash Aid, and Medical campaign:

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In the past fifty years, fantasy’s greatest sin might be its creation of a bland, invariant, faux-Medieval European backdrop. The problem isn’t that every fantasy novel is set in the same place: pick a given book, and it probably deviates somehow. The problem is that the texture of this place gets everywhere.

What’s texture, specifically? Exactly what Elliot says: material culture. Social space. The textiles people use, the jobs they perform, the crops they harvest, the seasons they expect, even the way they construct their names. Fantasy writing doesn’t usually care much about these details, because it doesn’t usually care much about the little people – laborers, full-time mothers, sharecroppers, so on. (The last two books of Earthsea represent LeGuin’s remarkable attack on this tendency in her own writing.) So the fantasy writer defaults – fills in the tough details with the easiest available solution, and moves back to the world-saving, vengeance-seeking, intrigue-knotting narrative. Availability heuristics kick in, and we get another world of feudal serfs hunting deer and eating grains, of Western name constructions and Western social assumptions. (Husband and wife is not the universal historical norm for family structure, for instance.)

Defaulting is the root of a great many evils. Defaulting happens when we don’t think too much about something we write – a character description, a gender dynamic, a textile on display, the weave of the rug. Absent much thought, automaticity, the brain’s subsconscious autopilot, invokes the easiest available prototype – in the case of a gender dynamic, dad will read the paper, and mom will cut the protagonist’s hair. Or, in the case of worldbuilding, we default to the bland fantasy backdrop we know, and thereby reinforce it. It’s not done out of malice, but it’s still done.

The only way to fight this is by thinking about the little stuff. So: I was quite wrong. You do need to worldbuild pretty hard. Worldbuild against the grain, and worldbuild to challenge. Think about the little stuff. You don’t need to position every rain shadow and align every tectonic plate before you start your short story. But you do need to build a base of historical information that disrupts and overturns your implicit assumptions about how societies ‘ordinarily’ work, what they ‘ordinarily’ eat, who they ‘ordinarily’ sleep with. Remember that your slice of life experience is deeply atypical and selective, filtered through a particular culture with particular norms. If you stick to your easy automatic tendencies, you’ll produce sexist, racist writing – because our culture still has sexist, racist tendencies, tendencies we internalize, tendencies we can now even measure and quantify in a laboratory. And you’ll produce narrow writing, writing that generalizes a particular historical moment, its flavors and tongues, to a fantasy world that should be much broader and more varied. Don’t assume that the world you see around you, its structures and systems, is inevitable.

We... need worldbuilding by Seth Dickinson

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RICO NASTY METAL MAGAZINE phot. Brian Ziff

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eyad has reached out to me to help share his campaign. he and his family were displaced to southern gaza which is now subject to flooding and cold weather conditions. they live in a small tent and struggle to get food, water, and basic necessities. eyad is also suffering from respiratory issues due to exposure to smoke and phosphorous from the israeli airstrike that destroyed his family's home.

eyad has kindly shared with me pictures of his siblings dina and jihad's children, and asked me to share them with you all:

pictured are little mohammed, hind, and nasser. they're all doing their best to survive in the worst conditions, with no access to medical care.

please share and donate to eyad's campaign:

€8,519 / €40,000 raised (only 1 donation in the past day)

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I have been sick for the past three days and I have been unable to get out of bed because of the lack of medicine but please if you see this post donate and don't be stingy with me Consider me your little brother That's just what I want to say.

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Degrowth and family abolition are interersting concepts with things to say but god are they poorly named. Like the fact that even with leftists you have to have "no, degrowth doesn't mean not having more doctors or more development in the global south, it means moving away from having an economy oriented around annualised growth in GDP" and "no, family abolition does not mean no more relationship between parents and kids, it means that people shouldn't be completely dependent on these family relationships for education, food, clothing, guidance, etc" [at least that's how I've been understanding it - this one I've not looked into as much as I ought to have]. And the worst part is is that underneath all this, when you look at the policy implications behind these concepts, it's still the same "there should be decent public services and high taxes on rich people" leftism underneath. So what was the point of all that confusion? Fundamentally I do think it is a problem with getting most our theoretical innovations over the last few years via Verso pulp stocking fillers designed to sound as radical as possible to excite the astute left wing consumer of books activist/academic.

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Hello, I am making a post on behalf of Ghada and his family, who are Palestinians trying to survive genocide in Gaza.

Vetted by Gazavetters, number 6 on the list

In his words: "As the bombing intensified and the violence escalated, we were forced to flee our beautiful home, which was completely destroyed, to the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. We lived in a small tent barely a few meters wide, but even that was not enough. We were forced to flee again to central Gaza, where we now live in a school for displaced people, moving from one place to another without knowing when this tragic journey will end... All we hope for now is to find safety, to not die before we can escape or move to a safer place. But even that simple right seems impossible. We need your help to raise the money needed to cross the Rafah border between Gaza and Egypt, where the coordination cost for one person ranges between $5,000 and $7,000."

Please help Ghada and his family survive!

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Where can I read more on what defines fascism and makes it different from liberalism? What I've read before didn't describe fascism super well, so I've been making mistakes when trying to analyze current politics.

There’s an essay I like focusing on it from a legal perspective called The Change in the Function of Law in Modern Society by Franz Neumann, which focuses on how rule of law is defining for liberalism and how fascism wants to strip the state down to bare life, bare power, and bare sovereignty. Neumann also wrote a great book called Behemoth about Nazi Germany showing how the rule of law and order broke down under the Nazis in favor of a naked alliance between monopoly capital and the party-state. Through this alliance he also demonstrated their continuity with both the Weimar Republic and Imperial Germany because they inherited the same basic capitalist imperatives for society, and just arranged them differently.

For a broader and more recent perspective I like Nicos Poulantzas’s analyses. He wrote a great book called Fascism and Dictatorship critiquing the older Marxist theories of fascism, bringing back the issue of law and representation, which are extremely important for understanding both the differences and continuities between fascism and liberalism in the state, and he makes a useful distinction between fascism as a movement and fascism as an institutionalized arrangement of the state.

Alberto Toscano also recently published a book called Late Fascism giving a broad overview of theories of fascism from the contemporary analyses to the New Left and Black Power concepts of fascism, and he tries to synthesize him. He did a few different interviews about this as well, usually emphasizing the element from Black radical analyses of fascism which emphasize its continuity with white liberalism. By the conclusion I don’t find his synthesis entirely satisfactory, but it’s one of the best points to leave off for thinking through fascism on your own

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eleanor vance was thirty two years old when she came to hill house. your life is not over in your twenties!

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Hmm. There are many. These are some which I’ve read kinda recently which I enjoyed.

See below for short descriptions of each book.

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Not you defending North Korea 🤡

almost every single shocking story about North Korea you have ever read (if not all of them) was either made up wholesale or sourced from North Korean defectors. these defectors are paid ludicrous sums of money by the South Korean government for their testimony, but that cash flow gets cut off if the defector comes across as even slightly sympathetic to their home country, which obviously leads to stories that make NK look good getting buried and stories that make them look bad getting spread to American media, regardless of how obviously fake they are, since anyone who questions them is obviously a fascist apologist who wants the world to get nuked.

i’m sure you already know this since you know so much about North Korea, but the US bombed almost the entire fucking country off the map and still holds annual military drills with South Korea in preparation to do it again right on the border as an intimidation attempt. if you can be cognizant of both of these facts and still take stories about officials being fed to 120 starving dogs at face value, you might be a fucking idiot

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“Ultimately, preservation of the non-human is a very personal crusade, a rejection of the homogenization of the world that threatens to diminish all, including the self. There is no such thing as an individual, only an individual-in-context, individual as a component of place, defined by place.”

— (my hero) Neil Evernden, “Beyond Ecology”