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Pietro Donzelli. Untitled from the series ''Delta del Po'', n.d.

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“First, multiculturalism, despite all the wonderful feelings about cultural otherness it represents, has always been a colonial ideology, that is, not an ideology to colonise, but an ideology which has its roots in colonial culture: The way it is nice to otherness is colonial. Colonialism, as the wonderful Israeli sociologist by the name of Baruch Kimmerling, who in analysing the Israeli Palestinian question, called “Colonial Cultural Politicide”. Politicide… and politicide means that the Colonialist always aims to kill the political will of the colonised. That is, the beginning of any colonialism, the other as far as they have a political will cannot exist in the eye of the Colonialist. You have to eradicate their political will. After you eradicate their political will, their capacity to rule themselves then, if you still don’t like them you might move into genocide, as many cases in history, sort of like, it has happened. But, it is not the only alternative. After politicide, you can also use the colonised of course, there’s a whole history of exploitation, not only a history of extermination, but it is important to remember that you can only exploit the colonised after you have politicided them. You can, and here we come closer to multiculturalism, you can even love the colonised other, after you have politicided them. This is what I call – it’s a bit at the edge of theory – but I call it, colonial necrophilia: the love of the dead other. You kill the other and you love them.”

— Ghassan Hage, Multiculturalism and the ‘Islamic question’ (x)

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Michael Kenna

Nine Birds / Neuf oiseaux

Taisha Shrine, Honshu, Japan, 2001

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“Door Charms for the Evil Eye” Sicily, circa 1910

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kirthanaa 🍸

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Jardim Botânico Tropical de Belém, Lisboa, Portugal, 02-06-23

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Jeanette Winterson, from “Lighthousekeeping,” originally published in 2004

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Cy Twombly’s 17th century house and studio at Bassano in Teverina. Photo by François Halard

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what is it like to write this story again in stagnant water    in deep water  in mirrors   I still see the wounds inside filmy cloth    like woven music  of thread and survival

from this too is a glistening. Co-authored by Pratyusha, Nina Mingya Powles, Alycia Pirmohamed and Jessica J. Lee.

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“Nihil durare potest tempore perpetuo, Cum bene sol nituit, redditur oceano, Decrescit Phoebe, quae modo fuit, Ventorum feritas saepe fit aura levis.”

Ancient graffiti found in the ruins of Pompeii. (CIL IV.9123)

“Nothing can last forever, Once the sun has shone, it returns beneath the sea, The moon, once full, eventually wanes, The violence of the winds often turns into a light breeze.”

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milène sanchez, "there isn't time," 2023, oil on canvas

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And how long before you realized (did you realize?) shame was a blade / you turned against yourself / and once you knew it / you could use it—

Leila Chatti, "Question Directed toward the Idea of Mary" from Deluge

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Even in death she inspires me.

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—Franco Cassano, Southern Thought and Other Essays on the Mediterranean