My heart feels gratitude ❤️
Today I’ve been remembering the depth of Tom’s smile. It’s hard to find words that capture its essence - intelligent, kind, curious, mischievous and empathetic - similar to the faces of countless young Palestinian men shot by Israel
Next in our series on Jean-Luc Godard’s phantom projects: On Palestine 🎬
Five rarely screened documentaries from the 1960s & 1970s explore Palestine on film, including Here and Elsewhere (1976) by Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville.
29 Mar, 1pm 🎟️ https://t.co/rhBWWTc8XO
Pages from Patrick Syme's wonderful Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814), one of the first attempts to standardise colour description. For each colour there's examples given from the kingdoms of animal, vegetable and mineral. More here: https://t.co/7IUVU6VUMv
Walid Khalidi, a towering Palestinian historian, has died. He built the Institute for Palestine Studies @PalStudies, a key engine in the Palestinian intellectual world. Here is his monumental (and profoundly moving) survey of villages destroyed in 1948. https://t.co/LupIhH916v
Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini, pictured here at Gramsci's grave, was born on this day in 1922.
"Nothing is more anarchic than power. Dictated by the abstract logic of an economic system it carries out the genocide of real, living cultures."