“HELP
During an accident, time slows down
not when there is still a chance
of averting disaster,
but, rather, when it’s too late
and we return
from the flurry
of failed actions
to watch things
as they accrue,
occur
*
If any release of tension
is pleasant,
shouldn’t this also
be true of death?
*
The sky sifts downward.
The remaining light
is pendulous.
Clarity is what
the leaves
are spittled with.
“Did you call me?”
“No.””
Armantrout, Rae. “Help.” Bomb 154, Winter 2021: Wesleyan Univ Press, 2012.
Boston Review
“If the good is momentum,
smooth passage,
putting all this
behind you,
evil is the whirlpool,
the amplified local.
If good is the all-enduring
intention
that carries you
to the future,
evil is the present’s
animal magnetism.”
Armantrout, Rae. “Homer.” Money Shot. Middletown: Wesleyan Univ Press, 2012.
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“Instead of building their settlement in a way that utilized the seasonal water flow and the vast resources of the riparian areas, they immediately took the productive lands of the Kumeyaay and put them under the plow while releasing herds of non-native animals. This led to erosion and flooding which destroyed crops and pushed the settlement to the edge of survival. The Spanish Priests had to rely on Kumeyaay harvesting of traditional food sources to fulfill their need. This also hindered the Spanish from expanding beyond a narrow strip along the coast.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael. Watersheds of the Southern Coast. Briefing Paper. 2009 California Tribal Water Summit. 2009. p.1-2.
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“From coastal marshes to mountain wetlands, the Kumeyaay practiced a sophisticated form of environmental management. Fire was certainly the greatest tool used by the Kumeyaay and other tribes in California. Fire opened up land covered with the dominant chaparral. This allowed the transitional plants useful for foods and medicines to become available. The opening in the chaparral canopy attracted game animals used for food, clothing and utilities.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael, Stan Rodriguez, and Martha Rodriguez. Kumeyaay Heritage and Conservation (HC) Project Learning Landscapes Educational Curriculum. p.50. Laguna Resource Services, INC., Kumeyaay Diegueño Land Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. August 1, 2016. Accessed July 2020.
California Department of Parks and Recreation
“Wildfire is a naturally occurring phenomenon usually occurring during the late summer and early fall. Many plant species are able to survive fire, and some even need it to thrive. The Kumeyaay knew this, creating and using fire to increase the abundance of edible plants for humans and wildlife, for controlling insects and diseases that could harm edible and useful plants, and to increase plant materials used in making baskets, cordage, clothing, and tools. Fire was also used purposefully to remove dead materials and to promote plant growth and recycling of nutrients.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael, Stan Rodriguez, and Martha Rodriguez. Kumeyaay Heritage and Conservation (HC) Project Learning Landscapes Educational Curriculum. p.49. Laguna Resource Services, INC., Kumeyaay Diegueño Land Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. August 1, 2016. Accessed July 2020.
California Department of Parks and Recreation
“Kumeyaay people very purposefully tended, harvested and protected their favorite plants and animals, learning the best times and methods of harvesting, passing on this knowledge and way of life from generation to generation. Before harvesting a plant or killing an animal, a person would ask permission, offer a prayer of thanksgiving, and tell their intention for use of the plant or animal.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael, Stan Rodriguez, and Martha Rodriguez. Kumeyaay Heritage and Conservation (HC) Project Learning Landscapes Educational Curriculum. p.51. Laguna Resource Services, INC., Kumeyaay Diegueño Land Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. August 1, 2016. Accessed July 2020.
California Department of Parks and Recreation
“In 1975 the U.S. Congress recognized the rights of American Indian people to self-determination with the passage of the Indian Self-determination Act. This greatly increased the authority of the elected governments of the Reservations and limited the authority of the federal agencies to direct resources. Tribes began to explore alternatives beyond the programs of the federal government and entered into energy resource development, timber management, fisheries development, tourism, farming and gaming. They pursued these endeavors in a much more direct manner than had been possible before.”
Connolly Miskwish, Michael, Stan Rodriguez, and Martha Rodriguez. Kumeyaay Heritage and Conservation (HC) Project Learning Landscapes Educational Curriculum. p.15. Laguna Resource Services, INC., Kumeyaay Diegueño Land Conservancy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. August 1, 2016. Accessed July 2020.
California Department of Parks and Recreation
“QUESTION:
secretary of agriculture, sir
given the present technologicoindustreal state
... is it feasible for the United States of America to end hunger, to feed the world?
NEWS:
millions of gallons of milk will b emptied into the sea this year, this year thousands of agri- farms will receive subsidies in order not to farm, this year meagatons of cheese will end up in the caves, this year the number of tractors assembled shall be curtailed, this year the pro- duction of canned food will be reduced, this year more weapons will be sold than food.
SECRETARY :
WELL, WELL, WELL ...
the problem is rooted in the proliferation of third world people, it is necessary to sterilize poor nations such as those in Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
A HINDI:
our children are our zebus and our tractors.
a large family allows us to till more land.
even so we lack good seed and organic fertilizers. our children are our tele vision.”
Alurista. Tremble Purple: Seven Poems. Oakland: Unity Publications, 1987. P.7.
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“I do not believe, and I do not wish you to believe, that the situation is hopeless. There is a solution to this problem. It requires courage and statesmanship. It requires the belief and actions to supplement the belief, that this problem cannot be solved in the framework of old ideas.”
Urey, Harold C. "Technology: Peace or War." Social Science 21, no. 4 (1946): 279.
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“This development of modern scientific warfare has brought this civilization to the brink of a precipice, and in that development we, the scientists and engineers, occupy a position close to the center. It does not change the situation when we truthfully maintain that we intend otherwise; that we have intended to broaden the intellectual horizon of men, to bring not only necessities to all men, but comfort pleasure, and beauty as well; that we also have been caught in the net of war just as completely as any other individuals.”
Urey, Harold C. "Technology: Peace or War." Social Science 21, no. 4 (1946): 278.
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“Out of the turning and twisting calcined cave walls, a sea of fissures, calcite concretions . . . stalactites . . . old claw-scratchings of cave bears, floors of bear-wallows & slides; the human finger-tracings in clay, early scribblings, scratched-in lines and sketchy little engravings of half-done creatures or just abstract signs, lines crossed over lines, images over images; out of this ancient swirl of graffiti rise up the exquisite figures of animals: swimming deer with antler cocked up, a pride of lions with noble profiles, fat wild horses, great-bodied bison, huge-horned wild bulls, antlered elk; painted and powerfully outlined creatures alive with the life that art gives: on the long-lost mineraled walls below ground.”
Snyder, Gary. “Entering the Fiftieth Millennium.” Profession, 1997. p. 38.
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“This was the grove of palms with its deep well
in the stony ghetto in the blaze of noon;
this the living stream lined with willows;
and this the thick-leaved myrtles and trees heavy with fruit
in the barren ghetto—a garden
where the unjustly hated were justly safe at last.”
Reznikoff, Charles, edited by Seamus Cooney. “Meditations on the Fall and Winter Holidays.” The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975. Boston: David R. Godine, 2005. p. 225.
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“We cannot tell from day to day what may come. This is no ordinary time. No time for weighing anything, except what we can best do for the country as a whole. And that rests, that responsibility on each and every one of us as individuals.”
Roosevelt, Eleanor. "Eleanor Roosevelt Speeches: Speech to the 1940 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, July 18, 1940," The Eleanor Roosevelt Papers (2019), accessed 4/26/2021
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“A space separates the notation of consecutive actions. A tap of the space bar is represented by the notation
Space
This convention does not introduce any ambiguity with typing the word space, because typing the letters of the word space is represented by letters separated by spaces, namely,
s p a c e.”
Raskin, Jef. The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems. Boston: Addison-Wesley, 2011. p.90.
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“The fluid character of water on our planet is the miracle that makes life possible, but it also means that the oceans fill all the low places of the earth. Because of this geographical fact the oceans are the ultimate receptacle of the wastes of the land, including the wastes that are produced in ever increasing amounts by human beings and their industries.”
Revelle, Roger. "The Ocean." Scientific American 221, no. 3 (1969): 63. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0969-54.
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“How has mass culture developed? The answer, of course, is implicit in my brief definition. The necessary condition of mass culture is technology, as this is the necessary condition of mass man. The outcome of the technification of society is what Marx called “alienation” –meaning thereby to indicate the fact that, as mass production techniques take over, the worker loses a sense of genuine participation in the product of his work.”
Pearce, Roy Harvey. "Mass Culture / Popular Culture: Notes for a Humanist's Primer." College English 23, no. 6 (1962): p. 418-419. Accessed May 27, 2021. doi:10.2307/373204.
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“I believe that the ultimate solution will be that everyone will have a knowledge of science, but it will take a generation, two generations, for us to reach this goal, even in the United States. I believe that we shall reach this goal if the world is not destroyed. I believe that reason will win out and that the world will continue to improve.”
Pauling, Linus. "The Social Responsibilities of Scientists and Science." The Science Teacher 67, no. 1 (January 2000): 28.
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“Perhaps we had no reason to leave the previous continent but we left
we walked most of the way: it's what we do best; we also rowed
where the ocean was flat. Later, we always dreamed of this map
this pseudo beginning, doubting it. The newspapers said
we had journeyed more within our species or bodies, as stilly as
those illustrations of ape to man. Ah man! like a frosted cannoli.”
Notley, Alice. "We Have to Know How to Make the New One." The Kenyon Review, New Series, 31, no. 4 (2009): 138. p. 138.
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“Art has rescued this knowledge from the sphere of abstract concept and embedded it in the realm of sensuousness.
Its cognitive power draws its strength from this realm. The sensuous force of the Beautiful keeps the promise alive-memory of the happiness that once was, and that seeks its return.”
Marcuse, Herbert. The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1978. p. 36-37
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Marginal Utility
“But it must be recalled that this change is more than development of political consciousness-that it aims at a new "system of needs." Such a system would include a sensibility, imagination, and reason emancipated from the rule of exploitation. This emancipation, and the ways toward it, transcend the realm of propaganda. They are not adequately translatable into the language of political and economic strategy.”
Marcuse, Herbert. The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1978. p. 36-36
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“As if the ribbons had been snapped before the Christening ceremony and the boat was adrift, and nameless.
What is this thing called life?
What are those trees doing there?
The snow was the queerest of phenomena, and Being a small sac over Nothinghood.”
Howe, Fanny. Holy Smoke. New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. p. 26.
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“Things extra and other (details and excesses coming from elsewhere) insert themselves into the accepted framework, the imposed order, One thus has the very relationship between spatial practices and the constructed order. The surface of this order is everywhere punched and torn open by ellipses, drifts, and leaks of meaning: it is a sieve-order.”
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Randall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. p.107.
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“It is true that the operations of walking on can be traced on city maps in such a way as to transcribe their paths (here well-trodden, there very faint) and their trajectories (going this way and not that). But these thick or thin curves only refer, like words, to the absence of what has passed by. Surveys of routes miss what was: the act itself of passing by. The operation of walking, wandering, or "window shopping," that is, the activity of passers-by, is transformed into points that draw a totalizing and reversible line on the map.”
Certeau, Michel de. The Practice of Everyday Life. Translated by Steven Randall. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984. p.97
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“Addressing the crowd assembled in the city of Mestre, one of the speakers proclaimed:
‘Half the world’s population is unpaid—this is the biggest class contradiction of all! And this is our struggle for wages for housework. It is the strategic demand; at this moment it is the most revolutionary demand for the whole working class. If we win, the class wins, if we lose, the class
loses.’”
Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race and Class. London: Penguin Books, 2019. p.133.
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“He was never discouraged but always looked forward and studied the harder. I think if the colored people study like King Alfred they will soon do away the evil of slavery. I can’t see how the Americans can call this a land of freedom where so
much slavery is.”
Davis, Angela Y. Women, Race and Class. London: Penguin Books, 2019. p. 63.
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“Now — let me continue with the course. at our last meeting, I attempted to use the first part of life and times of frederick douglas as the occasion for variations on the salient philosophical themes which we encounter in the existence of the slave. The transformation of the idea of freedom into the struggle for liberation via the concept of resistance; this sequence of interdependent themes — freedom, liberation, resistance — provides the groundwork for
the course.”
Davis, Angela Y. Lectures on Liberation. New York: N.Y. Committee to Free Angela Davis, 1971.
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"Trees stripped, rather shed
of leaves, the black solid trunks up
to fibrous mesh of smaller
branches, it is weather’s window,
weather’s particular echo, here
as if this place had been once,
now vacant, a door that had had
hinges swung in air’s peculiar
emptiness, greyed, slumped elsewhere,
asphalt blank of sidewalks, line of
linearly absolute black metal fence.”
Creeley, Robert. “Helsinki Window.” Selected Poems of Robert Creeley. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. p. 346.
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“and he sold bungalows because he had a grander view than bungalows and as these
bungalows became more expensive more valuable in exchange he exchanged these bungalows for land and more land lots of land not many people wanted this land because nobody could live there in this wasted beech woods and evergreen forest you see it was real estate all right
the estate was real there were trees and there were frogs and there were birds in the trees and there were streams that ran beside the trees but nobody could live there in this wasted beech and evergreen woods that had been logged out where farming was unprofitable because the distances you would have to transport your products to a reasonable market were too great and the cost uneconomical so that only very large dairy farms or chicken farms could afford to transport their milk or their eggs to a market and come out ahead”
Antin, David. “Real Estate.” Tuning. New York: New Directions, 1984. p. 71.
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