Source: Flickr / iambradical
So, let’s see if I can total all this up. Traditional marriage is one man with multiple wives, multiple concubines, wives conquered in war and wives acquired in levirate marriage, possibly including girls under the age of ten, but definitely not including anyone of a different ethnic group, in an arranged marriage with disposition of property as its purpose. That seems very different from “one man, one woman,” does it not?
Of course, it’s easy to say that marriage as an institution evolves—but then, if we admit that, we have to admit that sanctioning loving, same-sex unions is just another step in that evolution. Perhaps this is why the Tony Perkinses of the world simply ignore the Bible when it doesn’t suit their purposes, instead preferring to make pseudo-scientific (and wholly unsupported) claims about what’s best for children and society. The Bible’s truths are just too inconvenient.
(via furnaceofdoubt)
Source: honor-not-honors
video stills of honours work
exert from my literature review, talking about Deleuze and Guattaris suggested method of animal connection:
They suggest an action of ‘becoming animal’. Becoming animal, they describe, is a ‘deterritorialization’: a kind of un-humaning of the human, an unthinking or collapse of the conventional human presence. Becoming is something ‘which the animal proposes to the human by indicating ways–out or means of escape that the human would never have thought of by himself’[1] They explain it as a method that ‘replaces subjectivity’[2] and instead nurtures a ceaseless becoming of a multiplicity of interconnected forces, of becoming aligned with the animal. It is not imitation, [3] but a liminal state, where one is neither this nor that, where one is not referencing themselves to any symbolic order. Thus For Deleuze and Guattari ‘ becoming is the affirmation of the positivity of difference’[4]
In this video I am becoming other.
Absolutely brilliant—a fascinating topic. I’ve only recently been introduced to Deleuze, but he is the first philosopher that gave me some form of peace after the post-structuralist daze. I’m hoping to work with him for my BA dissertation this coming year, and I would love to hear more of your work with ‘Becoming Animal/Other’!
Source: madisoon
‘During the 1960s and 70s, thousands of monuments commemorating the Second World War – called ‘Spomeniks’ – were built throughout the former Yugoslavia; striking monumental sculptures, with an angular geometry echoing the shapes of flowers, crystals, and macro-views of viruses or DNA. In the 1980s the Spomeniks still attracted millions of visitors from the Eastern bloc; today they are largely neglected and unknown, their symbolism lost and unwanted. Antwerp-based photographer Jan Kempenaers travelled the Balkans photographing these eerie objects, presented in this book as a powerful typological series. The beauty and mystery of the isolated, crumbling Spomeniks informs Kempenaer’s enquiry into memory, found beauty, and whether former monuments can function as pure sculpture.’
Source: vagabonddaiz
Concept Tokyo 2020 Olympics Posters
Collection of triangulated Cubist illustrations representing different sports.
More Here (Japanese) - Discovered via wowgreat Tumblr
Source: optional-arts.weblogs.jp
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