#art #history: not only is she birthday twin to the exemplary percy 'bloody' bysshe shelley, but kembra pfahler (born #otd in 1961) is also a shock rock feminist goddess who founded the voluptuous horror of karen black. this subversive polymath has elevated performance art to a precision science. THE FUTURE IS FEMALE.
#feminist #feminism #kembraPfahler #polymath #portrait #illustration #music #availabilism #percyByssheShelley

Today in Labor History August 4, 1792: Poet Percy Bysshe Shelley was born. He promoted freedom of speech, ending aristocratic and clerical privilege, and equal distribution of income and wealth. He was also a vegetarian, advocate for free love and an atheist, who wrote about the link between organized religion and social repression. His poems and political writings were admired by Marx, Gandhi and others. His poem The Mask of Anarchy (1819) was the first modern work to support nonviolent protest. It was recited by students at the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and by protesters in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian revolution of 2011. Shelley wrote The Mask of Anarchy following the Peterloo Massacre (8/16/1819), when the British cavalry charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who had gathered to demand political representation, killing 13. He was married to, Mary Shelley, who wrote Frankenstein.

The Mask of Anarchy:

Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number!
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you:
Ye are many—they are few!

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #anarchism #FreeSpeach #poetry #poet #marx #FreeLove #frankenstein #PercyByssheShelley #protest #demonstration #Revolution #nonviolence

Le pouvoir, telle une ravageuse pestilence, pollue tout ce qu'il touche.

#PercyByssheShelley / La reine Mab (1813)

This is England, a monoculture guarded by barbed wire.
A nation divided, the last bastion of feudalism and cap-doffing serfdom, the Enclosures Acts, the destruction of the Commons, no right to roam, no stopping places, no access, no entry, not welcome here, no sanctuary.
Men of England, wherefore plough
For the lords who lay ye low?

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MUUTTUVUUS
Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)

https://satruno.blogspot.com/2019/10/muutos-percy-bysshe-shelley-1792-1822.html

#PercyByssheShelley #Käännösrunous #Käännöslyriikka #Lyriikka #Runo #Runoja #Runokäännös #Runosuomennos #Runot #Runous

Hello w̶o̶r̶l̶d̶ Set-of-interconnected-self-actualising-machines!

I intend this to be somewhat of an introduction, although I do realise that it would constitute a rather bizarre greeting in real life. This won't be a personal account, by that I mean I don't intend to post personal content (i.e. about my real world identity). This isn't really for anonymity, despite admittedly being quite a shy person, I think it's more to do with not wanting to attempt a serious explanation of my context, something which I doubt is achievable through this medium. For me underrepresentation is better than misrepresentation, although I understand if people find my presentation here dishonest or unaccountable.

I'll use this account partly for listening, a sampling spoon through which to experience the soup of conversation and thought. I'll also do some tooting, I like this word, I might have said contributing, tossing new, or maybe reused, ingredients into the soup, but that gives the impression, I think, of some final objective, an endpoint. Most likely, listening will be the larger of these two parts, and at least for the short term, both parts, the whole, will occupy very little of my time. Expect sporadicity and inconsistency!

I also wanted to say something about what I am interested in, this is difficult since if I just say a lot of words then what is there to relate my meaning, my intentions, to the meaning which you understand? "Language disguises thought" - Wittgenstein. Well after much deliberation and many sleepless nights I decided to... just say a lot of words, although do bear in mind that the following list is just that, merely a collection of words that I, at the time of writing, happened to perceive as having meanings that corresponded, perhaps imperfectly, to topics that I am interested in. Interested does not necessarily mean fully-endorse/believe/would-describe-myself-as/is-knowledgeable-about.

#philosophy #absurdism #existentialism #anarchism #communism #anticapitalism #mutualaid #prefiguration #ontology #phenomenology #poststructuralism #structuralism #mathematics #chaos #topology #imagination #art #education #linguistics #literature #music #machines #networks #cybernetics #systems #sustainability #ecology #technology #sciencefiction #utopia #DavidGraeber #DavidWengrow #MurrayBookchin #NoamChomsky #PeterKropotkin #AdamCurtis #KenLoach #AlbertCamus #GillesDeleuze #JacquesDerrida #JeanPaulSartre #MarkFisher #SimoneDeBeauvoir #FranzKafka #GeorgeOrwell #PercyByssheShelley #MaryShelley #UrsulaKLeGuin

percy shelley had it half right: 'we are many, they are few.' thing is, we're
/smarter/, too.
#percyByssheShelley #percyShelley #equality #solidarity #socialism

#VladimirPutin
#DonaldTrump
#ElonMusk
#TotalLosers
#Ozymandias #PercyByssheShelley
#Poetry

Good afternoon!

The poem for yesterday is "Summer and Winter" by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The last line confronts you with something that might still be true in our time.

https://internetpoem.com/percy-bysshe-shelley/summer-and-winter-poem/

#Poetry #PercyByssheShelley

to celebrate truly radical nature lover, percy bysshe shelley, here's a bird-y poem of his: 'the woodman & the nightingale'.
#poetry #percyByssheShelley