huaco silbador

(via @HarrySKeeler)

Grypsera.

"Ghosh attributes our current inability to see, represent, and understand environmental crisis to a probabilistic worldview that emerged in the 19th century and made no room for such 'uncanny' weather phenomena as freak tornadoes. Indeed, he argues that 'the uncanny intimacy of our relationship with the nonhuman' would only be tolerated in the realm of the supernatural, in the ghost stories of Charles Dickens or Henry James." --Stacey Balkan at Public Books blog, via aldaily

Hüzün redux. More.

"Just as no one knows the real nature of God but God himself, so no one knows the real nature of a prophet but a prophet." --al-Ghazzali, The Alchemy of Happiness (tr Murray, 1910)

"As the dream of becoming the world’s language becomes increasingly remote, many Esperantists are embracing the status of 'self-elected diasporic minority,' proclaiming themselves speakers of a language just as worthy and particular as any other..."

"One cannot emphasise enough just how crucial was the mass domestication of the car, ensuring the transition from what might be called 'traditional solidarities' to the unprecedented unleashing of modern individualism. What does it matter if the car kills, pollutes, and often makes people into total jerks, its proliferation destroying every urban space worthy of the name, when what is at stake is to ensure the domestication of gigantic human masses, the forging of thousands of psychologies of average men on wheels, 'highway mentalities', aping day and night the fluidities and competition of the Great market, etching it into the landscape ....?"

--Gilles Chatelet, To Live and Think Like Pigs (via Spurious)

"The trajectory of Silliman’s blog is a cautionary tale for poets."