February 2012
3 posts
A Postcolonial reading of Chris Hedges →
ola-asm:
The sudden volte-face of famed Liberal destroyer Chris Hedges in his recent demonization of the Black Bloc, sinisterly entitled ‘The Cancer of Occupy’, is a wonderful introduction for North American activists to the field of Postcolonial Theory. Edward Said’s seminal text ‘Orientalism’ examines how Western study of ‘The Orient’ contributes to the functioning of colonial power....
Gibraltar aka my home
I am lost
but so are you.
Can you feel me in this dark night of the soul?
the windows have shuttered, the skelton sits erect under a hanging harsh glow
The light catches your torso
unspoken dreams piled up, waiting to be used as timer
in the unending heat of our family’s hearth.
I pull from the flames to see
gestures that only hint at our mutual millennium of sequester.
I...
