I think of our relation to them as being like that of runners in a relay race. They were able to carry the baton only so far. Now it's up to us to complete the next leg of the journey.
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more advanced politically than our times today are. The point, of course, is not either to disavow them because of their errors or to emulate them, but to take on their achievements as support for moving forward.
they are so like us, with so many of the same dreams and problems. In some instances, we can now recognize clearly the mistakes they made; in others, their struggles constituted the larval stage of something that is now reaching maturity; and in still other respects, the seventies were actually
Preface: The Inheritance of the Subversive 1970s. David Scott. Small Axe (2026) 30 (1 (79)): vii–x..
"I hope that both those who remember the seventies movements and those encountering them for the first time have experienced, while reading these chapters, an uncanny sense of recognition:
Duke University Press. Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 79 is now available. View the TOC:
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1968
Oil on paper mounted on canvas
📸 Chris Weekes at the @pacegallery London
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1969 Acrylic on wove paper 50 ¼ x 42 ¼ in. (127.5 x 107.2 cm)
© 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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don't say: "hey..better get some klan down here.."
"pull down a few fuckin statues and that's what you get.."
from "basil" beating his mini..to him beating himself..(it's us..it's us..) or something like that..
from "we are all prostitutes.." to "we are all victims.." (the dirty end of the stick..) that formerly "wagging, beating, cajoling, demanding, big old late capital branch..(or stick..)
that creeping (insidious) sense of (post) neighbourly victim-hoodery..
or (indeed) neither..(racist white liberals..on the one side, racist and non-racist white & ethnic minorities "with legitimate concerns" on the other..) bewitching isnt it..(indeed..which is which..)
"messy headed.?" or just knowing (from a deeply personal perspective..) "how the (politicised) land lies" (ahem..'cuse the pun[ing]..)
and those "legitimate concerns"..again..?
country. You’re not going to be able to do that to me,” she said.
She said there was an aspect of racism to the claims. “I do think there is that element of it, which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing that we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’ Well I’m saying it.”
including ethnic minorities in this country. And it’s not acceptable, right? And also, you’re trying to put me in a box, which includes a lot of people who think I don’t even belong in my own country.
“That’s why I said this individual can just fuck right off, because I know I belong in my own
The Guardian. Shabana Mahmood swears at ‘white liberal’ hecklers over Reform remarks. ("darlin k" and "our nige" not the only one's apparently..)
“It’s also a way of delegitimising the perfectly valid, legitimate views of millions of people in this country, www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
"gotta job, i gotta do..i get down & dirty too..what it is, what i do..same shit..i know.." (gen z..) "lookin pitiful.."
dot dot..
ditto ditto..
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supporting roles. The film is about a down-on-his-luck musician (Oates) who joins a deadly manhunt for the titular character, who is wanted after impregnating the daughter of a crime boss. ("cosmic cowboys" in mexico?..hope not.."proto-tarrantino..?" again hope not..)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Spanish: Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García) is a 1974 neo-Western film co-written and directed by Sam Peckinpah, and starring Warren Oates and Isela Vega, with Robert Webber, Gig Young, Helmut Dantine, Emilio Fernández and Kris Kristofferson in
There was this big "hoo-haa" about it, about 30-odd years ago..went to see it..it didn't stand out for me..(has a "cult following" i know..) the re-appreciation society is about to (re)convene..(and so it should.?)
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Spanish: Tráiganme la cabeza de Alfredo García)
*The video was created on April 3, 2026.
Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontiéres. At the end of March, Dr. Tejshri Shah, our General Director, travelled to #Lebanon to meet with our teams.
Watch her reflect on our response and the need to protect civilians, healthcare workers and health facilities in conflict:
a conflict causing real-world damage—can we effectively resist. This is an essential book for anyone seeking to understand the ideological currents shaping politics in the twenty-first century.
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