#Jasper Bernes

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

...there is a big difference between stopping a refinery from poisoning your town, or stopping a pipeline, and stopping climate change. Where the goal is to protect the habitat of an endangered animal, as it was when ELF saboteurs burned down part of the Vail ski resort, sabotage is a relatively direct means to an end. But you can’t blow up climate change, except by blowing up so many things that you’d basically be at war. And even then, a solution to the problem of climate change and ecological collapse more broadly requires acts of creation as much as destruction. It is far easier to plan a bank robbery than the abolition of ecocidal class society. Pipelines and the forms of life they support will have to be replaced by new ways of living, new ways of doing things. Such a movement, a revolutionary, communist movement, would need to be against pipelines but, even more importantly, for these new ways of life.

Jasper Bernes, Deeds and Propaganda

[rabbitcruiser]

World Heritage Day 

Visit and support your local cultural icons and monuments, or travel to see some of the remarkable cultural heritage sites from all over the wide world.

Every day people all over the world celebrate their cultural heritage, simply by living their lives in a way that embodies who they are and where they came from. But one day a year is set aside to celebrate the joint history and heritage of the human race. World Heritage Day encourages us to celebrate all the world’s cultures, and to bring awareness to important cultural monuments and sites, and to espouse the importance of preserving the world’s cultures.

Learn about World Heritage Day

World Heritage Day, which is also known as the International Monuments and Sites Day, celebrates the work carried out by the ICOMOS – International Council on Monuments and Sites. The day is all about increasing the awareness of the importance of the diversity of cultural heritage and preserving it for generations in the future. Ancient monuments and buildings are an asset to us all around the world. However, they need to be protected to ensure that they continue to be an asset for years and years to come. Therefore, the day is a collective effort of communities around the globe.

On this day, there are a number of different events that happen all over the world. This includes a wide range of activities, conferences, and visits to heritage sites and monuments. For those who are unaware, a heritage site is basically a place that is of cultural significance. It preserves the legacy of intangible attributes and physical artifacts of a society or group that is inherited from previous generations.

There are truly some incredible heritage sites and monuments around the world. This includes the Machu Picchu, which is situated in the lush and mountainous terrain high above the Urubamba River in Peru. There are lots of amazing sights in Egypt, and the Pyramids of Giza are one of them. Other places of note include Bagan in Myanmar, Angkor Wat in Cambodia, and the Great Wall of China.

History Of World Heritage Day

So the first (and possibly most confusing?) part of World Heritage Day is that that actually isn’t it’s a formal name. What is popularly known as World Heritage Day is actually called The International Day for Monument and Sites and was established in 1982 by the International Council for Monuments and Sites, or ICOMOS. This organization was established on the principles set forth in the Venice Charter, otherwise known as the 1964 International Charter on the Conservation and Restoration of Monuments and Sites.

The organization was founded after a need was identified to protect these valued locations, and it saw the coming together of experts from hundreds of related fields. These include architects, engineers, geographers, civil engineers, and artists and archaeologists. Each year they work to help ensure that some of the world’s most beautiful sites and important cultural monuments remain preserved for future generations.

Since it’s inception it has grown to include almost 10,000 members in over 150 countries all over the world. Of these 10,000 members over 400 are members from institutions, national committees, and international scientific committees, all working together to save important sites and identify new ones that need to be added to the watch list.

2016 saw the addition of Gorham’s Cave Complex in the UK, the Khangchendzonga National Park in India, and the Persian Qanat in the Islam Republic of Iran. It’s through the tireless efforts of its members and leadership that these places will be preserved for future generations.

There is a theme that is assigned to each World Heritage Day. We would definitely recommend taking a look at the theme for each year, as it will help to give you some direction regarding how to celebrate the day. For example, some of the themes in recent years have included the likes of “Rural Landscapes” and “Shared Cultures, Shared Heritage, Shared Responsibility.”

How to celebrate World Heritage Day

Perhaps the most important way to celebrate World Heritage Day is to search out those locations near you that count as World Heritage Sites, and perhaps pay them a visit. Before doing so research the site and find out what steps are needed to protect it, and respect them during your visit. If you’re feeling more proactive, then perhaps consider submitting a site that you feel is worthy of being protected for it’s cultural importance to ICOMOS. Don’t let an important site disappear from the world, do your part on World Heritage Day to raise awareness and preserve it for future generations.

You should also take a look online to see if there are any events going on in your local area in honor of World Heritage Day. You will find that a lot of events take place to try and increase awareness regarding the preservation of important buildings and monuments. You can get involved in one of these events so that you can lend your support to these important causes. It should not be too difficult to find out what is going on in your local area. If your community has a local Facebook group, you can refer to this for more details.

It is also a good idea to spread awareness regarding this day with the people that you know. This is something you can do with ease via social media. You can post a message that informs your friends, followers, and family members of this day and encourage them to post something too. You could post a photo of one of the best international sites you have visited or one that is on your bucket list, and then ask your followers to reply with their choice. This is a great way of getting everyone involved and raising awareness about this date!

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[ghelgheli]

Stuff I Read In May 2024

bold indicates favourites

Books

Hogg, Samuel Delaney

Land Reform & its Direct Effects in Iran, OIPFG [link]

Blackshirts and Reds, Michael Parenti

Black on Both Sides, C. Riley Snorton

The Tyrant Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson

Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant

Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle

Yuri/GL

maintenance, crvptozoology [link]

Shimeji Simulation, Tsukumizu

If We Can Meet Tomorrow / Ashita, Kimi Ni Aetara, Aoto Hibiki

Love Thy Neighbour, Willow

Short Fiction

Let's Not, Isaac Asimov

Each an Explorer, Isaac Asimov

Blank!, Isaac Asimov

Palestine

Exiting Law and Entering Revolution, Basel al-Araj [link]

Resisting the Nakba, Joseph Massad [link]

Rain is Coming, Mohammed El-Kurd [link]

Novel Evil, Miriam Gordis [link]

Queer &c.

The Logics of Gender Construction in Asian Modernities, Emiko Ochiai

“It’s Only a Penis”: Rape, Feminism, and Difference, Christine Helliwell [link]

In the Dark Room: Homosexuality and/as Blackness in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, Josep M. Armengol [link]

She's always a woman: Butch lesbian trans women in the lesbian community, Hannah Rossiter [link]

No Sex Please—We’re Hobbits: The Construction of Female Sexuality in The Lord of the Rings, Brenda Partridge

Toward a historiography of the lesbian transsexual, or the TERF’s nightmare, Jules Gill-Peterson [link]

Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva [link]

The Myth and Tradition of the Black Bulldagger, SDiane A. Bogus [link]

This Infamous Proposal, Jules Joanne Gleeson [link]

Transing and Transpassing across Sex-Gender Walls in Iran, Afsaneh Najmabadi [link]

What Is It Like to Have a Gender Identity? Florence Ashley

Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe, Hortense J. Spillers

Egg Theory's Early Style, Grace Lavery [link]

NEVER EVER TRANSITION, lily bloodguts [link]

Pol

What Was To Be Done? Protest and Revolution in the 2010s, Jasper Bernes [link]

Anarchy and Scientific Communism, Nikolai Bukharin [link]

Against Innocence, Jackie Wang

Islamology, Ali Shariati [link]

Signals of Disorder: Sowing Anarchy in the Metropolis, A. G. Schwarz [link]

Foucault: The Faux Radical, Gabriel Rockhill [link]

Extractivism in the Anthropocene, John Bellamy Foster [link]

The Xinjiang Atrocity Propaganda Blitz, Roderic Day [link]

I Accuse This Liberal University of Terror and Violence, Fredy Perlman [link]

Other

Public Transit, AJ Julius [link]

Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess, Linda Williams [link]

The Myth of the Boiling Point, Hasok Chang [link]

[discorddramahub]

Here is the thing the only reason I reported Bernnyx to the discord subreddit was because her finally conversation with me sounded half like she felt bad for me and half-like-she-hated me and was siding with Mrdrawinglover, even though Mrdrawinglover bugged me on twitter and posted that 'kim people are dying' meme on one of my Deviations, he frequently told me to 'leave him alone' yet much like Jasper, he dedicated at least 4-5 posts to me (describing me in broad terms but it's still me).  Bern invited me to a mature server and she did not bother to tell me I was supposed to tell the mods my age.

[deviantartdramahub]

It is worth noting that I did report Bern on the subreddit for discord and i don't deny that,  i just didn't take to losing her that well and may have been a bit too clingy. I reported Jasper and his friends on the character-tf-server but could not give any evidence of what they said about me because i had been banned.

[practically-an-x-man]

Assign pigeon breeds to your ocs :>c

Ooooh fun! I know you've been really into pigeons lately so let me see what I can put together....

Thank you for the ask!! I tried to do as many breeds of domestic pigeons/rock doves as I could, but I have a couple separate species in here just bc they fit better

Rae: Breslauer Tumbler (breed)

Robin: Dutch Highflier (breed)

Madison: Mauritius Pink Pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri)

Ophelia: Show Racing Homer (they're so purple!!)

Gia: Pink-necked Green Pigeon (Treron vernans)

Jasper: Berne Lark (breed)

Kestrel: Nuremburg Lark (breed)

Katherine: Parlor Roller (breed)

Quinn: Jacobin (breed)

Eris: Thuringer Fullhead Swallow (breed)

Nikoletta: NY Danish Champ (breed)

Jimmy: Luzon bleeding-heart (Gallicolumba luzonica)

[lesser-known-composers]

Constantijn Huygens (1596-1687) - Air de cour and two Dutch songs

Performed by Jasper Schweppe (bass-baritone) and Harry van Berne (tenor) and Willem Mook (lute).

[edwad]

any opinions on jasper bernes? i like his piece "the test of communism"

google cordelia belton 😀

[acid-gothic]

Can software destroy hardware? Can a class, acting strictly as a class, abolish all classes as the answer to a badly phrased question might by sheer force of obviousness cause the questioner to rise blankly and walk into the ocean, while the black flags cut from the robes of executed magistrates wave non-semaphorically, where hope ends and history starts.

—Jasper Bernes, We are nothing and so can you

[alledherlu-q-pereon]

Poll of Springfield

So, late at night, a few nights ago, I was wondering how the bellwether town of Springfield (the #Simpsons Springfield) would vote in the upcoming Presidential election. Political junkie that I am, I had to get up from bed and go over to my computer and figure it out.

Though I did my best to ask every member of the Springfield Community how they were going to vote, some refused to answer and no doubt I missed a few too. If you have any suggestions or you think anyone would vote differently, or if you can think of more fun quotes from residents of Springfield about this election, please post below!

Note: I even asked residents not of voting age, or who lost the right to vote due to previous felony convictions, and included their answers below, but not in the final poll tally.

Topline results:

Hillary Clinton 44%

Donald J. Trump 35%

Gary Johnson 6%

Other 4%

Undecided/Refused 11%

Homer J. Simpson

Though he wanted to vote for Trump, Marge said she’d never sleep with him again if he did, so that’s how he became a Democrat. Of course, it’s a pretty good bet he’ll punch the wrong button at the polling station as is his custom, so if he goes in wanting Hillary, we’ll count his vote for TRUMP!

Marge Simpson

HILLARY

Bart Simpson

“Deez-nuts” Note: not of voting age and won’t be counted in poll results.

Lisa Simpson

“Well, at first I wanted Bernie Sanders. He was so dreamy! Then, when he lost I thought I’d vote for the first female President, Dr. Jill Stein! She would ride in on a magical pony and free all the animals from circuses and make everyone vegan. Then I realized I’m supporting Hillary Clinton.” Note: not of voting age and won’t be counted in poll results.

"Grandpa" Abe Simpson

“I’m voting for Cal Coolidge! I like him because he’s quiet.”

Patty Bouvier

HILLARY “Of course I’m voting for the woman!”

Selma Bouvier

HILLARY.

Montgomery Burns

TRUMP “Well, he wasn’t my first choice, but at least the young orange-haired young man isn’t a communist!”

Waylon Smithers

TRUMP Gays for Trump!

Moe Szyslak

TRUMP “I know how this works, see. I get in for Trump now and he lets me name a drink after him and charge twice as much. That’s why I like him, an honest politician.”

Barney Gumble

Passed out, no answer

Kent Brockman

HILLARY But I need to be discreet about it, being a card-carrying member of the media elite. That and I don’t want Trump’s goons to beat me up.

Mayor Quimby

HILLARY I’ve been with Hillary from da start! Bill and I used to hang out…”

Lenny Leonard and Carl Carlson

Will cancel one another’s votes, Lenny is leaning Trump and Carl is leaning Hillary

Krusty The Clown

Member of the Springfield Republican Central Committee, JOHNSON, “Oy, this is the choice I have? I’d never vote for her, and what’s he doing with the anti-Semitic retweets and hey, I’m supposed to be the clown here.”

Doctor Hibbert

Member of the Springfield Republican Central Committee, TRUMP “Well I liked Dr. Ben Carson, but I suppose Trump will do.”

Ned Flanders

Undecided “Oh lord, how did we wind up with such diddly awful candidates? I think I’ll just write in Ronald Reagan.”

Kang and Kodos

“TRUMP! We want Trump to be subjugator of the masses!” Note: not of voting age and won’t be counted in poll results,

Comic Book Guy

JOHNSTON “Well I liked Bernie of course, but now I like Gary Johnson. Polar opposite? Methinks not.”

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

HILLARY “Oh my goodness, even though I am Hindu not Muslim I do not think that Mr. Trump knows the difference. He is a very bad man.”

Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon

HILLARY

Seymour Skinner

HILLARY “mother says it’s Hillary. And anyway I think Trump wants to get rid of the Department of Education.

Chief Wiggum

TRUMP “I like a man who stands for law and order.”

Jasper “Bill Clinton”

Captain McAllister

HILLARY “Har, Hillary I guess, she looks mighty good to me after three months at sea...”

Otto Mann

JOHNSON “I was feeling the Bern, but I’m a one-issue man, and I like the guy who wants to legalize weed and give it out to everyone! Oh wait, he doesn’t want the government to give it out? Maybe I’ll go Hillary then!”

Bumblebee Man

HILLARY “Si yo soy ciudano Americano. HILLARY HILLARY HILLARY. Por favor dios HILLARY!”

Snake (Jailbird)

“Oh, election time?” (cannot vote due to priory felony conviction)

Old Gil Gunderson

TRUMP “I just signed up for his Trump University, I know this is my ticket! This is the right program for me to finally launch my success! Finally Ol' Gil is gonna make it!”

Sideshow Bob (Robert Terwilliger)

TRUMP “I appreciate the complex intricacies of his simple mind” (not counted, convicted felon)

Fat Tony’s cousin who looks just like him

TRUMP “My other cousin did business with him in Atlantic City.”

Ranier Wolfcastle

Member of Springfield Republican Central Committee, TRUMP “Of course I vote for Trump! He veel be strong leader and make us great again!”

Superintendent Chalmers

HILLARY

Agnes Skinner

HILLARY “It’s about time they let Hillary tell Bill what to do”

Bloodsucking Vampire

(From Springfield Republican Party Headquarters) TRUMP “He vas my choice all along!” (not counted, vampires can't vote)

Groundskeeper Willie

Unknown “Ain’t nobody gonna get outta me who Willie’s voting fer!”

Cletus

TRUMP “Gosh he’s gonna make ‘Merica great agin! And he’s one of them millionairres I seen on TV”

Brandine (Cletus’s wife)

TRUMP “I seen him on TV!”

Hans Moleman

Undecided “I think a giant meteor. Whoever I vote for loses anyway.”

Sideshow Mel

Gave a whistle when asked

Professor Frink

HILLARY “She’s a woman of bzonga SCIENCE and of course with the climate change and the stem cell research, HILLARY!”

Squeaky Voice Teen

HILLARY “Well it’s my first election, so of course I liked Bernie but now I guess I like Hillary?”

Judge Constance Harm

TRUMP

Judge Snyder

HILLARY

Lou and Eddie

Will cancel one another’s votes, Lou is leaning Trump and Eddie is leaning Hillary

Reverend Lovejoy

Undecided “Oh lord, please give us other choices.”

Helen Lovejoy

HILLARY “I just can’t vote for that potty-mouthed Trump.”

Kirk and Luann Van Houten.

HILLARY

Blue Haired Lawyer

Member of Springfield Republican Central Committee, TRUMP

Rich Texan

TRUMP “I liked them Bush boys better, but Trump’s a hellavalot better than Hillary!”

Bernice Hibbert

HILLARY

Disco Stu

HILLARY “I was with Bernie all the way man, but I guess I’m with her now.”

Luigi

Trump no lika the immigrants! Luigi izza immigrant too! He no wanta pizza on every corner?

Duffman

TRUMP “TRUMP will make America Great, oh yeah!!!”

Doris Freedman (lunchlady)

HILLARY “I like her school lunch program.”

Frankie The Squealer

TRUMP “The bosses cousin did bidness wid him. It was that casino project down in Atlantic City, the one that guy disappeared at, the one on the Boardwalk, ya know? but you didn’t hear it from me.”

[dustedandsocial]

The Worker’s Council from the Commune to Autonomy with Jasper Bernes, Session 1

Session 2 was just uploaded as well

[sharpened--edges]

[O]ver the last thirty-years […] [i]n advanced capitalist or post-industrial economies, growth has occurred primarily in industries involved with the circulation or realization of commodities (transport and retail); industries designed to manage the reproduction of capital (finance) or labor (education, health care); and finally industries concerned with the administration of flows of goods and bodies (information technology, clerical work, data-processing). Capital depends more and more on erstwhile unproductive spheres that accelerate and direct flows of capital and labor from site to site, quickening their turnover and reproduction. The expansion of finance is the central manifestation of this shift, but even the supposedly miraculous effects of information technology seem to have mattered less as a way to increase productivity than as a way to decrease the costs of circulation and administration. […] The collapse of an autonomous worker’s identity is an effect of this fragmentation – there can be no stable standpoint of labor when labor and labor-process itself are broken down into globally-dispersed segments, and then stitched together by a growing pool of proletarianized technical and clerical workers. And since the space of the market, of exchange, is where these fragmented parts come together – where the working-class is itself reassembled, it should come as no surprise that this is where contestation primarily erupts. The blockading of urban flows, the smashing and looting of shops – these tactics are given, in a way, by the material coordinates of the current mode of production.

Jasper Bernes, “The Double Barricade and the Glass Floor,” in Communization and Its Discontents: Contestation, Critique, and Contemporary Struggles (edited by Benjamin Noys, Minor Compositions, 2011), pp. 160–1.

[perkwunos]

... as partisan forces have found ways to push forward in June, July, and now August, they have tried to make who they are and what they believe known, for those willing to stop and read what has been graffitied onto the walls. After the first explosion in mid-June, this work of clarification dominated, and the riots turned with particular focus toward acts of iconoclasm, beginning first with statues to the Confederacy in the South and then turning to other examples of monumental white supremacy.

In San Francisco, for example, far outside the theater of the Civil War, the parks and plazas are dotted instead with monuments to Spanish colonization and later Anglo settlement. When statues began falling in other cities in early June, the city preemptively took down the twelve-foot-tall Christopher Columbus in North Beach, after getting word that a march would target it. No matter, iconoclastic youth went to Golden Gate Park and took down the big statue to Junipero Serra, the eighteenth-century Franciscan priest whose archipelago of prisons and military fortresses up and down the California coast, where indigenous captives from dozens of tribes were tortured and enslaved, forms the architectural template for most institutions in the state. Next, however, they took down a statue of Ulysses S. Grant, the Union military leader who defeated General Robert E. Lee, ending the Civil War, and four years later, as President, enforced Southern Reconstruction, repressed the Ku Klux Klan, and pushed for passage of the Fourteenth Amendment (which granted explicit equal protection under the law to emancipated slaves). He also ruthlessly opened up the American West for settlement, effectively declaring war on the tribal nations of the Plains and the far West.

Where liberal commentators find ignorant, nihilist excess, wrecking things without regard for historical meaning, they often overlook the active thinking of the movement, developed on the spot. In San Francisco, crowds pulling down the non-Confederate statues to Ulysses Grant, to Francis Scott Key, and others, offered explicit justification, tagging the base with explanatory epithets, as those in attendance and passers-by debated the relevant points. In refusing the memorializations of settler violence and plantation slavery on offer, in drawing connections public history won’t, between Southern slavery and the settlement of the West, despite the conflicts opposing the ruling class fractions involved in both, such actions stand US history on its feet and set its sentimental mythology on its head. They also link, in memory, and raise banners to the two most important political moments in the 2010s, which we might name, metonymically, Ferguson and Standing Rock, the first the defining moment of the Black Lives Matter sequence before 2020 and the second referring to the struggle by Dakota Sioux activists and others against the Dakota Access Pipeline, which targeted the infrastructure of ecocidal capitalism directly.

Trump amplified these connections. His response to the wave of statue topplings was to hold a campaign rally at Mt. Rushmore in the Black Hills, the sacred Sioux site defaced by giant busts of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Roosevelt. In response, indigenous protesters blockaded the entrance to the site, fighting with the police and eventually the National Guard. Trump’s instincts here as everywhere provide a moral foil for the movement, establishing continuity where none might have existed. In doing so, he draws toward himself and toward the Federal government antagonism that might have remained more dispersed.

Jasper Bernes, Letter From a Tottering State

[edwordsmyth]

“If we want to reorganize the economy and the way that we live in a way that makes sense, that isn't crazy, we're going to have to break the link of these global markets, and we're going to have to find ways to feed ourselves and make shelter and produce the things we need using less energy - and that means localizing a lot of production. But at the same time, that process, to be successful, needs to be a global process and you can still build connections between people thousands of miles away - there can be another kind of globalization built on assistance and solidarity and communication.”

[xonethousandcriesx]

This is one of the most important consequences of the restructuring of the labour process superintended by the logistics revolution: the casualisation and irregularisation of labour, the disaggregation of the work process into increasingly illegible and geographically separate component parts, as well as the incredible powers which capital now has to defeat any struggle for better conditions, mean that it is not only impossible for most proletarians to visualise their place within this complex system but it is also impossible for them to identify with that place as a source of dignity and satisfaction, since its ultimate meaning with regard to the total system remains elusive. Most workers today cannot say, as workers of old could (and often did): It is we who built this world! It is we to whom this world belongs! The restructuring of the mode of production and the subordination of production to the conditions of circulation therefore forecloses the classical horizon of proletarian antagonism: seizure of the means of production for the purposes of a worker-managed society. One cannot imagine seizing that which one cannot visualise, and inside of which one’s place remains uncertain.

Bernes, Jasper. 2013. “Logistics, Counterlogistics and the Communist Prospect.” Endnotes #3: 192.