This text is a bit simple, but it’s an angle that we want to start from with, exactly because we are basically that simple … I should write something about how we’d like to connect Mad Studies, Disability Rights and Animal Rights, since I’d like to find links between theses topics, but I don’t find many, or basically about that constellation none at all these days. We should start our own project on this, but it’s difficult. I guess we have to try to at least say: this is also our subject, in order to show that we a more…Continue readingA humble start
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Critical creativity
I called Andy Martin of Unit in an email recently a “former punk”, saying how glad I was to know the more kind-of-authentic-people in that context like him. Here is his reply to me which I found so inspiring that I asked him if I could blog his input on that issue: Andy: …what? WHAT? WHAT? ‘PUNK MUSICIAN’? Madam, how dare you! I was never a ‘punk musician’. I was certainly never a punk and plenty of people (especially former band members) would insist I was never a musician either. If I was anything, I was a Mod, albeit one…Continue readingCritical creativity
A short text I wrote in probably 2001: Crappy Tools I just write/express something. I know it has no meaning to anybody who could read it. Probably not. And maybe that is not even really important. I don’t really understand how “our” language works. Some things are felt as important when one hears or reads them. Must have something to do with the relevance something has for a human. The human machinery is totally powerful and makes everything apart form itself valueless. (…) It’s unnerving that whatever I’d like to say, I always use THEIR language to express my feelings…Continue readingCrappy tools, individual activism