VirginMolotov

I haven't been kicking around this site nearly enough, and I've allowed 287 Messages / Deviations / etc. to pile up in my message-boxes without response. Hopefully, I'm going to start posting back-art, and responding to *everything* soon. If anybody cares, I a) am in Halifax for the week and b) have been developing dumb radical artdeas all night. Look at it this way: Capitalism takes what is real, and commodifies it, alienates it, takes it out of context, and twists it. Through the processes of capitalism, the threatening and revolutionary is detoothed and harnessed. As revolutionaries, it seems to me as we ought to be acting antitheticall

a) I haven't slept properly since Thursday evening. b) I have to find my fine for illegal assembly, and find a way to pay it. Now that I can speak from experience, I'd like to assure everybody that "Get arrested . . . against the state!" is not an effective tactic. c) I have about six hours (Slightly less, considering the time it takes to walk to the Liberal Arts building, etc.) to write 1000 words concerning Aristotle and the state. d) Aristotle is a real fucking jerk. Sexist, in favour of slavery, and generally just not big on universal liberation.

Current endevours include: 1 - The continued search for income. It becomes far more difficult in that I find myself without motivation - I want work, but can't bring myself to do anything productive. 2 - Reading a) "The Revolution Of Everyday Life" and b) "Sundiata: An Epic Of Old Mali". The first is one of the crucial texts of The Situationist International, and supposedly more accessable than "Society Of The Spectacle." Strangely, I found the opposite, managing to work through the latter, but this being my second attempt at Vaneigem. Sundiata is a novel concerning a king of Mali, at its peak as an East African empire, which I have to writ