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☆scheming borrowing writing dreaming on Wurundjeri country in my lil library vault @p0litrix ☆ 1st batch of returns due 1 June. hmu if you want more time. msg 2 borrow. ☆ read your mind & be the blueprint ☆ 🖤 stoked that ~60 books aren’t pictured, they’re out being read by you 🖤

☆ scheming borrowing writing dreaming ☆ welcome to the p0litrix vault; a library on Wurundjeri Country. “there are things which must cause you to lose your mind, or you have none to lose” – Czeslaw Milosz – The Captive Mind “Any effective response to the anti-gender movement will entail a critique of the new forms of authoritarianism and the passions they exploit. It is right, of course, that we defend ‘gender’, point by point, against those who wage an ignorant war against it, but that alone will not be enough. We need a better understanding of the fears exploited by authoritarians: who is this ‘migrant’, so dangerous the must be deported; this ‘Palestinian’ whose death secures the social and political order; this notion of ‘gender’ that is so threatening to self, family and society? Any alternative to authoritarianism must address these fears with a compelling [blueprint] of a world in which there would be room for all who now fear their own vanishing and the vanishing of their communities.” – Judith Butler on Executive Order 114168 2 be anti-whatever-the-fuck-is-going-on-right-now and 4 something else, we need a blueprint. we already have it. we just need to read it. knowledge is agency and agency is for acting – now. “there is no way out of a system that is put together with us as its component parts” – Czeslaw Milosz – The Captive Mind treasure chest instructions: the borrowing is free. event details for p0li-zine release arriving soon.

p0litrix summer reading rapid fire + blooper at the end lol

Cycles: the Sacred and the Doomed | Morgane Billuart [borrow from p0litrix via Oddaný as announced] In Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed, artist and author Morgane Billuart gives voice to the complexities of female health, particularly through the lens of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). Highlighting the gaps in traditional support systems and health care, the writer embarks on a personal and collective quest, turning to online communities, ancient wisdom, and modern science to reimagine what holistic care can mean. This book of auto-theory weaves together the articulation of unmet needs, an assembly of multidisciplinary information, personal narratives, and critical analysis of female health technologies. In a world propelled by rapid technological progress and a culture of disposability, Cycles, the Sacred and the Doomed reveals a space where science, holistic methods, intimate souvenirs, and mythology converge. words, image & video: https://www.setmargins.press/books/cycles-the-sacred-and-the-doomed/

Capital is Dead is this something Worse? | McKenzie Wark | Available to Borrow from p0litrix | It’s not capitalism, it’s not neoliberalism—what if it’s something worse? In this radical and visionary new book, McKenzie Wark argues that the all-pervasive presence of data in our networked society has given rise to a new mode of production, one not ruled over by capitalists and their factories but by those who own and control the flow of information. Yet, if this is not capitalism anymore, could it be something worse? What if the world we’re living in is more dystopian than the techno utopias of the Silicon Valley imagination? And, if this is the case, how do we find a way out? Capital Is Dead offers not only the theoretical tools to analyse this new world of information, but the ones to change it, too.

Drawing on the writings of the Situationists and a range of contemporary theorists, Wark offers a vast panorama of the contemporary condition and the classes that control it. words: /en-gb/products/887-capital-is-dead image: https://knihobot.cz/g/4544587 see also: /articles/interview-mckenzie-wark /watch?v=9wBZVEnqocI&ra=m

| The Bluest Eye | Toni Morrison | p0li-Fiction Debut | borrow during Oddaný exhibition ours or scheduled drop-ins (TBA) 👀 Unloved, unseen, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes. In this way she dreams of becoming beautiful, of becoming someone – like her white schoolfellows – worthy of care and attention. Immersing us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in post-Depression Ohio, Toni Morrison’s indelible debut reveals the nightmare at the heart of Pecola’s yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfilment. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing. words: & /book-reviews/the-bluest-eye image: /products/the-bluest-eye-book-buy

Fire in Every Direction | A Memoir | Tareq Baconi Fire in Every Direction recounts the uneasy coming of age of a queer scholar in the Palestinian diaspora. Baconi was born in the Palestinian diaspora, the second generation in his family to have been so. He traces his “trained” “silence” back to his parents and their friends, a generation of Palestinians who couldn’t afford to champion the struggle for independence while living in “host” countries like Lebanon and Jordan. (Indeed, the term “host” itself indicates their disempowerment; guests can always be kicked out.) In a new author’s statement prefacing his book, he writes of the paradox that “the vast destruction of the Gaza Strip and the horrifying loss of civilian life are a painful blow to Palestinians,” and that yet “simultaneously, Palestine is back on the top of the global agenda—with growing recognition that it must be addressed.” Baconi writes of a life haunted by the loss of a homeland and the specter of freedom, but also by the masking of his sexuality and the promise of wholeness. Words & Image: /article/205824/tareq-baconi-fire-every-direction-search-liberation / Mariam Rahmani

p0litrix Author Spotlight | Tyson Yunkaporta About Tyson: “Indigenous skolar (Apalech clan (Wik) Lostmob Nungar) working with Indigenous Systems Knowledge and collective Indigenous inquiry methods inflected with complexity science to resolve global existential threats and issues in regenerative design responses to crises. Works across disciplines in literature/creative writing, sociology of religion (disinformation/conspirituality/IO’s), history, Indigenous Knowledges, psychology, environmental studies, architecture/engineering/Indigenous design and technology. Founder of the Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab.” p0litrix copies of Tyson’s b00ks: - Sand Talk, How Indigenous Thinking Can Save The World - Right Story Wrong Story, Adventures in Indigenous Thinking words: akin.edu.au/45373-tyson-yunkaporta #book #library #lol

| Read like Milly | p0litrix titles for borrow from @oddanygallery 12-4 on Thursdays & during Oddaný’s exhibition weekend hours, as announced |

| Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race | Reni Eddo-Lodge | A charged and necessary wake-up call to pervasive, institutionalised racism, Eddo-Lodge’s searing polemic reconstitutes the frame of the argument around race, removing it from the hands of those with little experience of its resonances. From ambient and lazy cultural stereotyping to open hostility, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race is a clarion call of understanding. “I’m no longer engaging with white people on the topic of race. Not all white people, just the vast majority who refuse to accept the legitimacy of structural racism and its symptoms... You can see their eyes shut down and harden. It’s like treacle is poured into their ears, blocking up their ear canals. It’s like they can no longer hear us.” In 2014, award-winning journalist Reni Eddo-Lodge wrote about her frustration with the way that discussions of race and racism in Britain were being led by those who weren’t affected by it. She posted a piece on her blog, entitled: ‘Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race’. Her words hit a nerve. The post went viral and comments flooded in from others desperate to speak up about their own experiences. Galvanised by this clear hunger for open discussion, she decided to dig into the source of these feelings. Exploring issues from eradicated black history to the political purpose of white dominance, whitewashed feminism to the inextricable link between class and race, Reni Eddo-Lodge offers a timely and essential new framework for how to see, acknowledge and counter racism. It is a searing, illuminating, absolutely necessary exploration of what it is to be a person of colour in Britain today. words & image: /book/why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/reni-eddo-lodge/9781408870587 | /books/

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| Perfect Victims | Mohammed El-Kurd | _a precious p0litrix-stocked title_ Palestine is a microcosm of the world: on fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified. Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Mohammed El-Kurd refuses a life spent in cross-examination. Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood, El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye, forgoing both deference and condemnation. How we see Palestine reveals how we see each other; how we see everything else. Masterfully combining candid testimony, history, and reportage, Perfect Victims presents a powerfully simple demand: dignity for the Palestinian. words: .au/books/perfect-victims/ image: @m7mdkurd