#on freedom

[emilianadarling]

- Timothy Snyder. The first and perhaps most important lesson from On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons for the Twentieth Century (2017)

Snyder's new book, On Freedom, was published in 2024.

[metamorphesque]

there is a moment between jumping from the frying pan into the fire that feels a lot like liberation

[kimiko24]

Let's run away together, towards a life where we can be free

[antigonick]

For this reason, Michel Foucault's distinction between liberation (conceived of as a momentary act) and practices of freedom (conceived of as ongoing) has been key for me, as when he writes, "Liberation paves the way for new power relationships, which must be controlled by practices of freedom." (...) This is Brown's point when she says that freedom to self-govern "requires inventive and careful use of power rather than rebellion against authority; it is sober, exhausting, and without parents."

—Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

[blasphemister]

Largely centered, to little surprise, on Donald Trump and how the former president has put America on a glide path to fascism. “We Americans tend to think that freedom is a matter of things (like “government”) being cleared away, and that capitalism does that work for us. It is a trap to believe in this,” he writes. “Freedom is not an absence but a presence, a life in which we choose multiple commitments and realize combinations of them in the world.”

[1-jar-of-stars]

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Seeing a hallway friend in public is such an excruciating experience

Yes, we said hi to each other every day. No, I didn’t know your name until one of my friends asked how I knew you. Yes, I took off in the middle of the year and you never saw me again. No, i didn’t die. I am So happy that you lived. There’s a part of my heart that beats for you. I don’t even know you. I’m so happy to see you. We were never friends so we have nothing to catch up on. Yes, i missed you. Yes, i thought about you. You look happier. I look happier. Long time no see. I hope i never see you again.

Have a great life. i love you. i don’t know you enough to mean that. goodbye.

[fishingforwords]

the higher you go the freer you are.

mary barnyard, height is the distance down || t.s. eliot, the waste land || parkour || roman payne, rooftop soliloquy || charles bukowski || pascale petit, sky ladder || tony hoagland, from this height || mary oliver, every day has something in whose name is forever

[cinematic-literature]

You Hurt My Feelings (2023) by Nicole Holofcener

Book title

To Paradise (2022) by Hanya Yanagihara

I Had to Tell It by Beth Mitchell

A Swim In The Pond In The Rain (2021) by George Saunders

Moon Witch, Spider King (2022) by Marlon James

On Freedom - Four Songs of Care and Constraint (2021) by Maggie Nelson

[othellho]

Forest Sounds: A Conversation with Carl Phillips

[lazyydaisyyy]

Making art won't feel like reparative labor, it will feel like sanding aluminum for eight hours and breathing in toxic dust, wondering why you're not hanging out with your family or binge watching Netflix or visiting your sick mother or performing labor guaranteed to pay instead of cost. It will feel, and perhaps it will be, indefensible, despite your developed ability to claim aluminum sanding as a blueprint for a utopian future.

Maggie Nelson, On Freedom

[agirlnamedbone]

Duffie Taylor (South, 2019)

[stargir1z]

"The expansion of inalienable civil rights to all humankind is not revolutionary. It means freedom from unjustified constraints and as such represents only a negative freedom, that is, a liberation. What is truly revolutionary is a freedom that provides access to the public sphere for everyone, for which liberation is only a necessary condition. Liberation in the sense of negative freedom does not necessarily lead to participation in public life." -- Byung Chul Han, Vita Contemplativa

[metamorphesque]

"Freedom", Paul Éluard (translated by Ben Platts-Mills)

[kimiko24]

I'll love you; we'll love each other, we'll save one another

[antigonick]

The whole point of reparative reading is that people derive sustenance in mysterious, creative, and unforeseeable ways from work not necessarily designed to give it, and that the transmission is nontransferable and ungovernable; the whole point of reparative making is that it is reparative for the maker, which guarantees nothing in particular about its effect on the reader.

—Maggie Nelson, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint