March 2012
“As our planet heats up and the Tropics spread, is it not possible that not only a new human body but a new type of bodily consciousness will be created in both temperate and tropical regions, a consciousness that reattaches the body to the cosmos? Two centuries ago, Charles Fourier certainly thought so, with his scheme to reorganize human society along anti-capitalist, socialist principles that encompassed sex, smell, and color, no less than money, work, and property, and he did so in order to save what he saw as our dying planet. A reinvigorated Earth, according to his estimation, would equilibrate heat so there would be less of it in the Torrid Zone and more of it at the Poles, heterosexuality would dissolve into pansexuality, the Tropics would acquire a climate like the south of France, and the Arctic would melt into seas of lemonade. Fourier is unsettling. But then so is global warming.”
—Michael Taussig - My Cocaine Museum effusionofbiopower (via ratak-monodosico)
Be Thankful For What You Got
William DeVaughn
William DeVaughn - Be Thankful For What You Got
Be Thankful For What You Got, 1974
February 2012
Is it not better, to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, in The Mind on Fire, p 122
If I Didn't Care
Ink Spots
If I Didn’t Care | The Ink Spots
Released in 1939
Ask and ye shall receive: anonymous
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
—Carl Jung (via nirvikalpa)
