Egypt. Captivating. Beautiful. fuck it. words cant describe.
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Tahrir Square 1-25-12
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The Event and the Historical Bloc, or, Can the Subaltern Tweet?
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Gender is a social construct
This paper studies the use of alcohol between different American genders such as Hispanic and Cuban.
Wars against abstractions like, terrorism or drugs, lead to social control because there are no concrete enemies, therefore war pours into all levels of society in order to maintain control. “A war to create and maintain social order can have no end. It must involve the continuous, uninterrupted exercise of power and violence.”(Multitude,), in other words there is no end in site because of this indetermination!
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Alain Badiou, Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art
Third thesis. It’s only a definition of the universality of art. What is an artistic truth? Artistic truth is different from scientific truth, from political truth, from other sorts of truths. The definition is that artistic truth is always a truth about the sensible, an outline of the sensual. It’s not a static sensible expression. An artistic truth is not a copy of the sensible world nor a static sensible expression. My definition is that an artistic truth is a happening of l’Idèe in the sensible itself. And, the new universality of art is the creation of a new form of happening of the Idea in the sensible as such. It’s very important to understand that an artistic truth is a proposition about the sensible in the world. It’s a proposition about a new definition of what is our sensible relation to the world, which is a possibility of universality against the abstraction of money and power. So, if art seems very important today, it is because globalization imposes to us the creation of a new kind of universality, which is always a new sensibility and a new sensible relation to the world. And because the oppression today is the oppression of abstract universality, we have to think of art along the direction of the new sensible relation to the world. And so, today, artistic creation is a part of human emancipation, it’s not an ornament, a decoration and so on. No, the question of art is a central question, and it’s central because we have to create a new sensible relation to the world. In fact, without art, without artistic creation, the triumph of the forced universality of money and power is a real possibility. So the question of art today is a question of political emancipation, there is something political in art itself. There is not only a question of art’s political orientation, like it was the case yesterday, today it is a question in itself. Because art is a real possibility to create something new against the abstract universality that is globalization.
