Lightly, Child, Lightly. You've Got To Learn To Do Everything Lightly. Think Lightly, Act Lightly, Feel

The Princess and the Trolls –The Changeling, by John Bauer, 1913.

Blink by Johnny Lucus on Flickr.

Janis Goodman（British）

Wild in the City   2012  Etching / Engraving on Paper   30 x 40cm   via

Listen/purchase: G.I.M.P. - Government Issue Music Protest by Loki with Becci Wallace

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

Frank O’Hara, Mayakovsky (via naranzarian)

hi hello now's a great time to read umberto eco's essay on ur-fascism if you haven't already

National #demo2012 #6 by Marc Fairhurst on Flickr.

Why are we perfectly willing to ascribe agency to a strand of DNA (however “metaphorically”), but consider it absurd to do the same with an electron, a snowflake, or a coherent electromagnetic field? The answer, it seems, is because it’s pretty much impossible to ascribe self-interest to a snowflake. If we have convinced ourselves that rational explanation of action can consist only of treating action as if there were some sort of self-serving calculation behind it, then by that definition, on all these levels, rational explanations can’t be found. Unlike a DNA molecule, which we can at least pretend is pursuing some gangster-like project of ruthless self-aggrandizement, an electron simply does not have a material interest to pursue, not even survival. It is in no sense competing with other electrons. If an electron is acting freely—if it, as Richard Feynman is supposed to have said, “does anything it likes”—it can only be acting freely as an end in itself. Which would mean that at the very foundations of physical reality, we encounter freedom for its own sake—which also means we encounter the most rudimentary form of play.

David Graeber What's the Point if We Can't Have Fun