“…an emancipated community is in fact a community of storytellers and translators.”
— Jacques Ranciere, The Emancipated Spectator, 2009.
Stamp found on an on-line, downloadable .pdf copy of ‘The Ignorant Schoolmaster - Five lessons in Intellectual Emancipation’ by Jacques Ranciere (1969) trans. Kristin Ross publ. Stanford University Press (1991) …emancipation in progress!
Taxi
1982
“This feature documentary studies one of the city’s most visible yet most anonymous character: the taxi driver. Filmed by day and night, the film offers an entertaining and sometimes comical look at the drivers, fleet operators and dispatchers who are expected to deliver passengers, parcels… and even babies.“
Really fascinating look back at the Toronto (and Torontonians!) of 35 years ago.
High-Functioning Anxiety Is More Complicated Than You Perceive
Topic: Psychology // via WNQ-ANONYMOUS
It may seem like common sense to others but anyone who suffers from high-functioning anxiety (HFA) is an incredibly obsessive and perfectionist being. They often rerun conversations in their head for hours, as well as developing highly dangerous obsessive behaviour.
But what is most surprising is that from the outside, these people seem to look like they have their sh*t together. You would never know, they will not show your where their weakness lies.
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“No historical sense of our country’s history of enslaving and exploiting African Americans for profit and for control, a system that’s still perpetuated today, if not in the owning of humans then in their imprisonment, in economic disinvestment, and controlling their images. For most of its history, and you could argue even now, that when it comes to capital, it’s a medium largely controlled by white men.”
