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Teeming with lunar and water imagery, this work shows The Priestess channeling the depths of emotion and the deepest levels of the unconscious.
The Priestess embodies female intuition and mystery and serves as counterpoint to the focused consciousness of The Magician. Together with the card that immediately follows her, The Empress, she completes the archetype of woman.
Divinatory Meanings:
Hidden knowledge or influences. Looking inward to find an answer. Something that is concealed. Unconscious action. Alternatively, this card can stand for inaction, withdrawal, or passivity.
turned-on
1: “Concern with effect rather than meaning is a basic change of our electric time, for effect involves the total situation, and not a single level of information movement.” (McLuhan, 43)
2: “Architecture (“a most non-discontinuous art”) was seen as both the ultimate model for discontinuity and where the new technologies should be implemented.” (Colomina, 16)
3: “The multimedia imagery aimed to free the space from its physical solidness as well as free the mind and the body. … Cerebrum was on the way to turning spectator passivity into participatory activity.” (Smith, 302-303)
4: “But if the event is something the television screen likes to monitor, so, it appears, is the opposite, the uneventful, the repeated, the repetitive, the utterly familiar.” (Cavell, 209)
5: “Like Freud’s germ cells, [buildings] persist by serving as instigators of repetition; every realized building is a consolidation of the repetitions by which it negotiated its existence.” (Phelan, 293)
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
Acrylic on paper, 30x40 cm, November 2014.
Part of Naked with shoes project.
The sporty shoes have connotations such as strength, practicality, and functionality, whereas the female body is rather associated with contraries such as delicacy, passivity and irrationality.
All these contradictions are based on patriarchal ideas that have been highly present in the history of western art.
The naked female in shoes is a feminist symbol of woman challenging values that history has put on her body.
Projet : Les mondes Renversés
'En Vert et Contre Nous'
Toujours dans l'optique des mondes renversés, ici attitude des Hommes qui consiste a ignorer les catastrophe, en pensant a autre chose.
“Rørbye has painted a respectful portrait of his former teacher, now a venerable professor of 81. The picture offers a vivid impression of the old man, reclining in front of his easel. Although he holds a palette and brushes in his hand, his attention is directed away from the painting, and the air of passivity is underlined by the slouching dog. As a portrait of an ageing artist and a bygone era, it is a marked contrast to the young artist’s self-portrayals, but the painting received great praise at the Charlottenborg exhibition in 1828.”
Nivaagaards Malerisamling
Exhibition: Danish Golden Age: World-Class Art Between Disaster
Statens Museum for Kunst, Kbh
Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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In November 2013, nearly a year to the day of the beginning of construction, "a year and one day" stands proud and tall on the grounds of Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans, Louisiana. Created to slowly be overgrown with plant-life (both indigenous and invasive) and deteriorate with time, this site-specific time-based artwork continues to evolve. Step inside this tomb and contemplate the cycle of life and death. Light filters through a water prism in the ceiling to create a place of passivity.
Seattle based author and consultant, Peggy Holman, has helped explore a nascent field of social technologies that engage "whole systems" of people from organizations and communities in creating their own future. Working with a variety of organizations, including tech, biotech, government, nonprofits, and others, she consults on strategies for enabling diverse groups to face complex issues and turn presentation into conversation and passivity into participation. In 2001, Peggy co-founded Journalism that Matters (JTM) with three career journalists. JTM has built a national coalition of journalists, educators, reformers and others who are reshaping the emerging news and information ecosystem. In The Change Handbook, 2nd edition, she and her co-authors profile 61 change processes. Her award-winning book, Engaging Emergence: Turning Upheaval into Opportunity, dives beneath these processes to make visible deeper patterns, principles, and practices for change to guide us through turbulent times. Holman recently joined the faculty of American University’s School of Public Affairs’ Master of Science in Organization Development program to teach system change. She is based in Bellevue, Wash.
“4me4you” visits Lazarides Gallery showcasing the artist Dan Witz "Prisoners 2012-2013"
Lazarides Gallery...>> Dan Witz, displaying paintings from both his Prisoner and Mosh Pit series. Combining the latest in digital reproduction with the old master’s technique of illusionism, the artists lifelike figures appear as if from nowhere on sign-posts, walls, windows and manhole grates across the world. Painting and layering over digital photographs, each image is designed to surprise the viewer, taking them aback from the expected into an alarming state of disbelief.
“The artist generates moments that jar the spectator out of passivity, making him the co-creator of a more creative-less passive life."
Modern Monoliths migrating investigates the power-laden language dictating public and private space. Here, phone booths, designed for private conversation in a public place, become a repository for speech between unknown parties. Inside each booth, sloganeering voices articulate force, reward, and persuasion, showing how power is historically established and maintained. It is short, repetitive, and persuasive, yet accompanied by a subversive, whispered voice. In juxtaposition to the traditional active participation of phone booths, audience agency is undermined through a forced passivity, mirroring public and private tensions and intersections.
Geographically placed at the convergence of several types of power—river power, the political and cultural power of the city, and the onsite electrical plant—this work renders internal the external play of power.
Presented by Northern Lights.mn
Photograph Patrick Kelley, courtesy Northern Lights.mn
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WjpM-NjjQU Many men struggle with the question: Am I supposed to lead in my marriage, or am I supposed to step back? The modern conversation around masculinity has left men confused—some try to take control and get resistance, while others become passive and lose respect. In this episode, we break down what healthy leadership looks like in marriage and how men can lead without control, insecurity, or passivity.
We’ll explore:
Why leadership in marriage matters and how it builds trust.
The three pillars of masculine leadership—emotional steadiness, vision, and adaptability.
How to define your core values so your leadership comes from clarity, not reaction.
When to take charge and when to step back, recognizing your wife's strengths without giving up your own.
How to communicate decisions confidently, so leadership feels natural, not forced.
A great leader isn’t the loudest or the most controlling—he’s the one who creates security, trust, and direction in his marriage. If you’re ready to step into your leadership role in a way that strengthens your marriage, join our men’s groups at richinrelationship.com and start leading with purpose today.
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Thank you!
Peace & love,
Bill
When accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, President Obama argued for war:
"There will be times when nations . . . will find the use of force not only
necessary but morally justified."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. accepted with: ". . . Negroes of the United
States, following the people of India, have demonstrated that nonviolence is
not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social
transformation."
Jesus the Christ said: "Put your sword back into its sheath, for all who
take the sword will perish by the sword." Mat 26:52
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
ooOOOoo
Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
In November 2013, nearly a year to the day of the beginning of construction, "a year and one day" stands proud and tall on the grounds of Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans, Louisiana. Created to slowly be overgrown with plant-life (both indigenous and invasive) and deteriorate with time, this site-specific time-based artwork continues to evolve. Step inside this tomb and contemplate the cycle of life and death. Light filters through a water prism in the ceiling to create a place of passivity.
Today thousands of people in Athens demonstrated in front of the Parliament building against the Government’s passivity in protection of woods. Enormous fires during the last week have destroyed hundreds of hectares of woods.
People of Athens demand from the Government to take serious steps protect our woods
“Rørbye has painted a respectful portrait of his former teacher, now a venerable professor of 81. The picture offers a vivid impression of the old man, reclining in front of his easel. Although he holds a palette and brushes in his hand, his attention is directed away from the painting, and the air of passivity is underlined by the slouching dog. As a portrait of an ageing artist and a bygone era, it is a marked contrast to the young artist’s self-portrayals, but the painting received great praise at the Charlottenborg exhibition in 1828.”
Nivaagaards Malerisamling
Exhibition: Danish Golden Age: World-Class Art Between Disaster
Statens Museum for Kunst, Kbh
A steadily growing group of people who value peace has been standing, since October 19th, from early morning to late evening, all 7 days of the week, forming a peace watch outside Christiansborg, the Danish parliament and government.
We are keeping a symbolic flame alive for all the innocent war victims in the world. And in order to highlight the ever-present danger to world peace, which lies in the escalation that often is part of war's terrible logic - an escalation which powerful forces are arguing for, including the USA's Secretary of Defence.
We are continuing to take time out from our ordinary daily life and concerns, convinced of the necessity of action for peace in the world, and of the necessity of an international and global dialogue about the conditions which foster war and terrorism.
Hate breeds hate. Terrorism cannot be driven out with yet more terror; the bombing of impoverished people and countries. The contrary is true - injustice on this scale nurtures terrorism.
We find it necessary to call for reflection in a time where even religious leaders and intellectuals are adding their voices to a hypocritical dogma: "the necessity of war".
We find it necessary to try to counter a general indifference to the fact that we - the Danish nation - are ideologically and actively participating in this hopeless, ugly and dangerous "War on Terrorism", and that we as a nation thus support the idea that terrorism can be stopped with terror. The passivity of ordinary people lends support to this dogma, for those who remain silent implicitly accept the government's and the parliament's political decisions.
We cannot remain passive faced with the threat to our society posed by the forces who claim they want to defend it - therefore this vigil, the peace watch.
Living in Transit: The Thinkers of a World in Turmoil
War looms over Europe, uncertainty seeps into everyday life, and the weight of history presses upon the present. The world is burning, and yet—there are those who seek understanding, those who bury themselves in the quiet refuge of books, the dim glow of libraries, the solitude of knowledge.
This series captures the introspective minds of young academic women—readers, thinkers, seekers. They wander through old university halls, their fingers tracing the spines of forgotten books, pulling out volumes of poetry, philosophy, and psychology. They drink coffee, they drink tea, they stay up late with ink-stained fingers, trying to decipher the world through words.
They turn to Simone Weil for moral clarity, Hannah Arendt for political insight, Rilke for existential wisdom. They read Baudrillard to untangle the illusions of modernity, Byung-Chul Han to understand society’s exhaustion, Camus to grasp the absurdity of it all. They devour Celan’s poetry, searching for beauty in catastrophe.
But they do not just read—they reflect, they question, they write. Their world is one of quiet resistance, an intellectual sanctuary amidst the chaos. In their solitude, they are not alone. Across time, across history, across the pages they turn, they are in conversation with those who, too, have sought meaning in troubled times.
This is a series about thought in transit—about seeking, reading, questioning, about the relentless pursuit of knowledge when the world feels on the brink.
Where the Thinkers Go
They gather where the dust has settled,
where books whisper in the hush of halls.
Pages thin as breath, torn at the edges,
cradling centuries of questions.
They drink coffee like it’s ink,
trace words like constellations,
follow Rilke into the dusk,
where solitude hums softly in the dark.
Outside, the world is fraying—
war threading through the seams of cities,
the weight of history pressing forward.
Inside, they turn pages, searching
for answers, for solace, for fire.
And somewhere between the lines,
between time-stained margins and fading ink,
they find the ghosts of others who
once sought, once wondered, once read—
and they do not feel alone.
Three Haikus
Night falls on paper,
books stacked like silent towers,
thoughts burn in the dark.
Tea cools in the cup,
a poem lingers on lips,
war rumbles beyond.
Footsteps in silence,
the scent of old ink and dust,
pages turn like ghosts.
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Reading as Resistance
These young women do not read passively. They underline, they take notes, they write in the margins. They challenge the texts and themselves. They read because the world demands it of them—because, in a time of conflict and uncertainty, thought itself is an act of resistance.
Their books are worn, their pages stained with coffee, their minds alive with the urgency of understanding.
1. Political Thought, Society & Liberation
Essays, theory and critique on democracy, power and resistance.
Chantal Mouffe – For a Left Populism (rethinking democracy through radical left-wing populism)
Nancy Fraser – Cannibal Capitalism (an urgent critique of capitalism’s role in the destruction of democracy, the planet, and social justice)
Étienne Balibar – Citizenship (rethinking the idea of citizenship in an era of migration and inequality)
Silvia Federici – Caliban and the Witch (a feminist Marxist analysis of capitalism and gender oppression)
Didier Eribon – Returning to Reims (a deeply personal sociological reflection on class and identity in contemporary Europe)
Antonio Negri & Michael Hardt – Empire (rethinking global capitalism and resistance from a leftist perspective)
Thomas Piketty – Capital and Ideology (a profound analysis of wealth distribution, inequality, and the future of economic justice)
Mark Fisher – Capitalist Realism (on why it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism)
2. Feminist & Queer Theory, Gender & Body Politics
Texts that redefine identity, gender, and liberation in the 21st century.
Paul B. Preciado – Testo Junkie (an autobiographical, philosophical essay on gender, hormones, and biopolitics)
Judith Butler – The Force of Nonviolence (rethinking ethics and resistance beyond violence)
Virginie Despentes – King Kong Theory (a raw and radical take on sex, power, and feminism)
Amia Srinivasan – The Right to Sex (rethinking sex, power, and feminism for a new generation)
Laurent de Sutter – Narcocapitalism (on how capitalism exploits our bodies, desires, and emotions)
Sara Ahmed – Living a Feminist Life (a deeply personal and political exploration of what it means to be feminist today)
3. Literature & Poetry of Resistance, Liberation & Exile
European novels, poetry and literature that embrace freedom, revolution, and identity.
Annie Ernaux – The Years (a groundbreaking memoir that blends personal and collective history, feminism, and social change)
Olga Tokarczuk – The Books of Jacob (an epic novel about alternative histories, belief systems, and European identity)
Édouard Louis – Who Killed My Father (a deeply political and personal exploration of class struggle and masculinity)
Bernardine Evaristo – Girl, Woman, Other (a polyphonic novel on race, gender, and identity in contemporary Europe)
Maggie Nelson (though American, widely read in European academia) – On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (a poetic, intellectual meditation on freedom and constraint)
Benjamín Labatut – When We Cease to Understand the World (a deeply philosophical novel on science, war, and moral responsibility)
Michel Houellebecq – Submission (controversial but widely read as a dystopian critique of political passivity in Europe)
4. Ecology, Anti-Capitalism & Posthumanism
Texts that explore the intersections of nature, economics, and radical change.
Bruno Latour – Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime (rethinking ecology and politics in a world of climate crisis)
Andreas Malm – How to Blow Up a Pipeline (on the ethics of radical environmental resistance)
Emanuele Coccia – The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (rethinking human and non-human coexistence)
Isabelle Stengers – Another Science is Possible (rethinking knowledge and resistance in an era of corporate science)
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics (rethinking economic models for social and ecological justice)
Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble (rethinking coexistence and posthumanist futures)
The Future of Thought
These are not just books; they are weapons, tools, compasses. These women read not for escapism, but for resistance. In a time of political upheaval, climate catastrophe, and rising authoritarianism, they seek alternative visions, radical possibilities, and new ways of imagining the world.
Their books are annotated, their margins filled with questions, their reading lists always expanding. Knowledge is not just power—it is revolution.
In November 2013, nearly a year to the day of the beginning of construction, "a year and one day" stands proud and tall on the grounds of Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans, Louisiana. Created to slowly be overgrown with plant-life (both indigenous and invasive) and deteriorate with time, this site-specific time-based artwork continues to evolve. Step inside this tomb and contemplate the cycle of life and death. Light filters through a water prism in the ceiling to create a place of passivity.
When I was younger, I didn't understand what anxiety meant. No one in my family ever talked about it as a definite state of being. Sure, I was aware of nervous people – the older folks in my life who'd worry about world events, bad weather, and family safety. The signs should have been obvious that I was one of them, but when you don't have the words for what's wrong, you just carry on blindly. I was always fixated on microscopic social concerns, each conversation carried out with a dozen possible outcomes echoing in my skull. I assumed that everyone felt the same, and was just better at hiding it. This made human interaction exhausting, and after a while, I realized that it was easier on my own.
As a teenager, I came across the concept of depression. When I first started writing, it was the word I always used to describe a previously unnamed emotion that had long since ruled my life. But I didn't understand that this shadowy sensation was just my anxiety on mute. I'd spent years pulling down on the buzzing static, making sure I didn't cry in a crowd or get dry-mouthed and light-headed when I said the wrong thing. It was a daily effort to get content with the chaos in the mirror – that uneasiness over nothing ever looking or fitting quite right. Years down the line of keeping quiet, and the weight of restraint left me feeling unfeeling. Turns out that you're a lot less anxious with your heart set in stone.
I was halfway through my twenties before I realized that I'd never been depressed. I looked back on every messy moment and found that I was never down for more than hours. In fact, I was so up and anxious that passivity only came with the ensuing exhaustion. Depression looks a lot like sleeplessness the next morning, dragging yourself through the day with worries blunted by heavy eyelids. Becoming a writer was the best and worst way to find this out. Good, because I was finally answering things that I'd never honestly observed inside me. Bad, because, well – it's tough to go around doing that all alone. Balance is tough when you're so isolated mentally that you don't consider therapy, you have no friends, and you're not even sure why any of that is. But sixteen years later, where I've ended up was worth it.
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Originally "Animositas" is a submission for the Hero Art Contest 2018 of UNICEF. The task was to create a hero that would defend children in school from "the silence". This antihero prevents children from speaking up against bullying and unfairness, building up the negative emotions and making the children suffer. We should write a short story that would introduce our heroic character:
--> Leo is frozen and incapable to speak as he sees how two upper classmen bully his friend. Like a shadow, the silence emerges behind him and is about to extinguishes the glimmer of courage in Leo's heart.
Suddenly a blue light flares up right in front of him. The others don’t seem to notice it. The blue flames dances around for a second and then forms into a small body. Its eyes sparkle as it begins to speak. “I am Animositas and I am here to lighten up your courage!” Leo is speechless. “Listen, the silence can’t take control over you Leo!” The flame hovers in the air. “You are smart and kind. I know that.” He blinks irritated “How do you know that?”, he asks. “Animo knows these things. I can feel the spark within you and I can see into your soul!”. He blinks again, still in disbelieve. “I am born from the fire within the heart of the first person who showed courage in order to protect others. Wandering the earth since the dawn of humanity and witnessing endless conflicts caused by passivity, I made it my destiny to defeat the silence. Over the past decades the silence operated mostly in schools, controlling the young hearts of brave and upright people like you Leo… They want to keep children from learning so that they will never be able to stand up for themselves or others. I cannot defeat the silence alone. I need YOU to be strong and speak up. Help your classmate! Drive the silence away. I know you can do it Leo.” He nods. “That’s right, I am proud of you! Let’s make this school a safe place for everyone. I will be by your side. Let’s go!”
And just like this, two heroes were strong enough to save the day of another pupil and to make the silence a bit weaker. <--
In November 2013, nearly a year to the day of the beginning of construction, "a year and one day" stands proud and tall on the grounds of Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans, Louisiana. Created to slowly be overgrown with plant-life (both indigenous and invasive) and deteriorate with time, this site-specific time-based artwork continues to evolve. Step inside this tomb and contemplate the cycle of life and death. Light filters through a water prism in the ceiling to create a place of passivity.
Originally "Animositas" is a submission for the Hero Art Contest 2018 of UNICEF. It did not make it into the top ten final designs. The task was to create a hero that would defend children in school from "the silence". This antihero prevents children from speaking up against bullying and unfairness, building up the negative emotions and making the children suffer. We should write a short story that would introduce our heroic character:
--> Leo is frozen and incapable to speak as he sees how two upper classmen bully his friend. Like a shadow, the silence emerges behind him and is about to extinguishes the glimmer of courage in Leo's heart.
Suddenly a blue light flares up right in front of him. The others don’t seem to notice it. The blue flames dances around for a second and then forms into a small body. Its eyes sparkle as it begins to speak. “I am Animositas and I am here to lighten up your courage!” Leo is speechless. “Listen, the silence can’t take control over you Leo!” The flame hovers in the air. “You are smart and kind. I know that.” He blinks irritated “How do you know that?”, he asks. “Animo knows these things. I can feel the spark within you and I can see into your soul!”. He blinks again, still in disbelieve. “I am born from the fire within the heart of the first person who showed courage in order to protect others. Wandering the earth since the dawn of humanity and witnessing endless conflicts caused by passivity, I made it my destiny to defeat the silence. Over the past decades the silence operated mostly in schools, controlling the young hearts of brave and upright people like you Leo… They want to keep children from learning so that they will never be able to stand up for themselves or others. I cannot defeat the silence alone. I need YOU to be strong and speak up. Help your classmate! Drive the silence away. I know you can do it Leo.” He nods. “That’s right, I am proud of you! Let’s make this school a safe place for everyone. I will be by your side. Let’s go!”
And just like this, two heroes were strong enough to save the day of another pupil and to make the silence a bit weaker. <--
Some more information about the character:
Thinking of a hero that would help pupils in school I immediately was reminded of how I always wished for a little companion. Someone would help me get through the school day. Since I figured that most of the entries would be typical hero figures with strong super powers (I was right) I wanted to do something different and went with this idea. I was inspired by the blue will-o'-the-wisp that can guide you or trick you into getting lost. In the case of Animositas I was going with the idea of them guiding you to where you need to go. Moreover, since the idea is that the character is born from the fire within the heart of the first person who showed civil courage, I wanted him to be blue like the hottest part of a candle is. Highlighting how strong and brave this person’s heart was. In contrary I also wanted the design to be a bit impish, going back to the idea of will-o'-the-wisps tricking you. He should look energetic, mischievous yet sympatric. Most importantly I wanted my “hero” to only be strong enough with the help of the desperate child he wants to safe. My hero is more like a guide, he supports you and helps you to be strong so that in the end, you are the actual hero that takes action. This is also why there is a child in the background of the painting. Without them Animositas has no power to defeat the silence. The name Animositas was inspired by the Latin word animus for bravery.
All in all, I put a lot of thought into the whole concept and design of this hero and I was disappointed when I didn’t even get to the final selection (which resulted in a public voting on UNICEFs website). However, I am proud of everything that I came up with and I definitely wanted to include this character design in my portfolio.
"Otpor" is Serbian for resistance! This marcher presents us with the logo for a Serbian resistance movement which began at Belgrade University in 1998, in opposition to an oppressive dictator. According to Wikipedia, Otpor! is credited with "stripping away the fear, fatalism and passivity that keep a dictator's subjects under oppression as well as turning passivity into action by making it easy — even cool — to become a revolutionary. The movement branded itself with hip slogans and graphics and rock music. Instead of long speeches, Otpor relied on humor and street theater that mocked the government" All right!