Poetry person. Futures: Poetry of the Greek Crisis (@Pennedinthem). Screen (Paper Tigers Books). Limit.less_an assembly of the sick (@LitmusUK). ed @frmkpoetry
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Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social) retweeted
Some great photos from our Cypriot event @culturalchcuk @CyprusInUK @AvgiLilli @l_kiew @catonacanto @___Stathis___ @NoraNadj @alevadil @komarhanna @lauradavispoems @selfcoding @chrissywilliams @antoniataylorpr All videos
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Our Cypriot event @culturalchcuk @CyprusInUK last night was amazing. Thanks to everyone who attended @AvgiLilli @l_kiew @catonacanto @___Stathis___ @NoraNadj @alevadil @komarhanna @lauradavispoems @selfcoding @chrissywilliams @antoniataylorpr All videos
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Our Cypriot poetry celebration @culturalchcuk on June weds 25th @CyprusInUK 7pm, free tickets w/ @AvgiLilli @catonacanto @___Stathis___ @NoraNadj @alevadil @komarhanna @lauradavispoems @selfcoding @chrissywilliams @antoniataylorpr et al
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Birthmarks on newborn babies used to be called "longing-marks" and were believed to take on the shape of something desired by the mother. Pouring a drink and wishing I'd asked the mom who marked me with desire what on earth she'd been desiring.
Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social) retweeted
Paulo Freire was preaching when he said teaching cannot be neutral it either dismantles systemic inequities or perpetuates them
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First Impressionist?
Monet's Sunrise (1872)
Turner's Sunset (1840)
Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social) retweeted
everyone is participating in the "what to do about young men" debate without actually discussing the book that figured out what needs to happen 52 years ago, we need to stop them from continuing to get oedipized over and over again by patriarchal systems
Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social) retweeted
My greatest joy is not knowing what people are talking about.
Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social) retweeted
I recommend Ernst Bloch's essay 'Marxism and Poetry' to everyone, not just poets. But to poets I recommend drinking 3 beers before reading this essay
Theo Chiotis (selfcoding.bsky.social) retweeted
I don't study politics, but I do study culture, and here are some of the signs that a cultural shift has been brewing for years in America that most of the professional political analysts just completely missed.
Some of these may seem absurd, but hear me out. 🧵
We'll start with this one:
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Deleuze: For Proust, to write is to “read the inner book of these unknown signs… There is no logos, there are only hieroglyphs. To think is therefore to interpret, is therefore to translate.”
— Ricardo Piglia, The Diaries of Emilio Renzi (tr. Robert Croll)
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The terrifying beauty of the ocean 🧵
1. Sitting on the edge of an underwater cliff
ALT Credit: Adam Stern
