BARAKA BASHMENT

Insofar as it eludes the present, becoming does not tolerate the separation or distinction of before and after, or of past and future.... paradox is the affirmation of both senses or directions at the same time.
— The Logic of Sense Gilles Deleuze

• About This Place
A growing list of what it is that goes on in here. UPDATED 5/5/2006


• Women Schooling Men About Men Working With Women for Gender Equality
The female identified tells us (all) what's up


• Mystic Hermeneutics
Words contain secrets relative to the excavator

• Full Bellies & Dissent
But what people abroad want to know is, Why aren’t you REALLY fighting back. And here’s why. The genius of American oppression is that dissent has been made into a leisure activity. (The exception proves the rule when most of my more “active” activist friends have actually had to consciously “become poor” in order to induce a hungry belly. Imagine that!?) more...


• Manipulation Through Translation
In this article I will be discussing the unique situation the non-Arabic speaking convert faces when having to rely on agenda-motivated (read: misogynistic, elitist, sexually-oppressive) translations of the Qur’an. These translations, intended as a guide by which the convert is lead through a seemingly hidden world, are infected with moral, ethical, and cultural prejudices disguised as literality. more...

prax·is n. 1. Practical application of learning. 2. Established practice.

READING:not the glazed gaze of the consumer, but the careful attention of a producer, or co-producer. The transformer.
— Paradise & Method Bruce Andrews

Problems in readership arise only from a refusal to abandon prejudicial reading habits and from the insistence on a verbal presence that would offer itself for consumption.
— "Diminished Reference and the Model Reader" Steve McCaffery

Act as if there is no centre.
— Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein