roachboy

in my role in "real life" as a historian, i take the above for granted.
and would echo additionally what art said
but the conclusion i draw from it has to to with the pervasiveness of the political
and the need to understand the arguments that frame relations to the world as arguments
elaborated to address relations of power (political, cultural, economic) in the present
and backwritten in the form of "history"

the fact that these frames are arguments does not for that mean that anything goes
because there are questions of validity and criteria for thinking in those terms
but they are not absolute.
therefore you find yourself having to generate a space for thinking as a kind of ongoing project
which makes it both a bit harder to be in the world
and more rewarding to be in the world
even though most of the time arguments you would rather see vaporized as a function of their wholly problematic status
keep spinning away

sometimes i still dream about revolution
even though i no longer know what that would mean

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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear

it make you sick.

-kamau brathwaite