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"Self-optimization becomes a form of piety: privatized labor of personal responsibility as public good. [...] This portends a condition in which health is indistinguishable from productivity."

"Obsessive self-care is the flipside of self-destruction: Both can provide the illusion of control over life’s injustices and unpredictable pains, a sense of agency — as if we always get what we choose and what we deserve."

http://reallifemag.com/issue-self-optimization/

"Definition Not Found -
The last refuge from #content might just be asemic writing"

by Rahel Aima (2016)

http://reallifemag.com/definition-not-found/

in the spirit of pure escapism, I'm gonna fire up my Ardes Sole Mio and obliviate to bed

"The Accursed Share -
Hauntings, like miracles, are situational, but a curse follows you everywhere"

by Rahel Aima

http://reallifemag.com/the-accursed-share/

"Can #metoo change the toxic culture of sexism and harassment at cybersecurity conferences?"
https://theintercept.com/2018/06/19/metoo-cybersecurity-infosec-sexual-harassment/

let us escape the endless cycle of horrible news and seek refuge for a moment in the natural history and classification of bees, wasps and ants, in gorgeous full color illustrations..

"Naturgeschichte, Klassification und Nomenclatur der Insekten" (1791) by Johann Ludwig Christ

https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/165219

intersections of capitalism and racism, resistance efforts

"Jessica Gordon Nembhard: African American Co-ops (In Conversation)"

https://m.soundcloud.com/upstreampodcast/jessica-gordon-nembhard

"An Artist Who Turns Detritus into Talismans"

https://hyperallergic.com/446963/an-artist-who-turns-detritus-into-talismans/

"Earth’s Future: Planetary Park or World-Wide Exclusion Zone?"
https://theposthuman.world/2018/01/28/earths-future-planetary-park-or-world-wide-exclusion-zone/#more-374

"A Hurry of English is a profound exploration of queerness, desire, postcolonialism, race, and religion."

https://www.oxfordwritershouse.com/features/2018/06/admit-it-aloud-review-of-a-hurry-of-english-by-mary-jean-chan

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from the same website, series of guides to help independent creatives

https://thecreativeindependent.com/archive/#filter=.sort-guide

VoIP:
Vore over IP

game by loren schmidt (2015): Strawberry Cubes

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control = room. »

http://lorenschmidt.itch.io/strawberrycubes

interesting collection of resources for independent creatives who are trying to make a living:

"TCI is a resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people. "

https://thecreativeindependent.com/

a review of "The Pursuit of Happiness: Black Women, Diasporic Dreams, and the Politics of Emotional Transnationalism"

https://anthrodendum.org/2018/06/11/review-of-the-pursuit-of-happiness-black-women-diasporic-dreams-and-the-politics-of-emotional-transnationalism-bianca-c-williams-duke-university-press-2018/

one of the most resilient, drought-tolerant crops, providing nutrition for over half a billion people in the world, delicious,
cassava deserves a lot of appreciation

whatever the definition of success may be, are or will be dead, as everybody else. we are dust. enough with personality cults.