Lucy Jameson

Bedroom Work included in ‘A Knowing Nature’, The Dock,Jan 2016.

“Domestication of a Pyramid”, a fantastic installation by Czech artist Magdalena Jetelová. The visual metaphor comments on the Western mentality of placing important parts of our history inside museums.

by warsan shire

they set my aunts house on fire

i cried the way women on tv do

folding at the middle

like a five pound note.

i called the boy who use to love me

tried to ‘okay’ my voice

i said hello

he said warsan, what’s wrong, what’s happened?

i’ve been praying,

and these are what my prayers look like;

dear god

i come from two countries

one is thirsty

the other is on fire

both need water.

later that night

i held an atlas in my lap

ran my fingers across the whole world

and whispered

where does it hurt?

it answered

everywhere

everywhere

loving this. click here for the sounds. so good.

Men have been fucking men since forever but homosexuality is recent invention

There has always been unconventional people but mental illness is a recent invention

The science / religion comparison is like a comparison between sign language and Queen’s English. Two completely different things that fulfill the same function

I am confident in my knowledge of what the universe is and how it was created in seven days by god because I read it in a well respected book and I was taught this in school

I am confident in my knowledge of what the universe is and how it was created through the big bang because I read about it in a well respected book and I was taught this in school

Hitler was elected democratically. 

Money doesn’t make the world go round, debt does. If there is 7 peanuts in the entire world and I have 4 peanuts and you have 2 peanuts and a last person has 1 peanut, then I may loan you one peanut and charge you half a peanut interest. There is now 7 and ½ peanuts in circulation but only seven actual peanuts. I made a half a peanut from nowhere. This is the same way money is created by commercial banks. This is fundamentally unsustainable.

Economics assumes every individual acts in their own best economic interest. This a basic tenet of economics, but it isn’t true. People act irrationally. Economics is a philosophy.

What was taught in ancient history classes thirty years ago is different than what is taught now. ‘All histories are histories of the present’ - Foucault