{"id":23457,"date":"2012-06-01T18:34:23","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T18:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/towerofsleep-image-kasimir-malevich-red\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T21:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T04:53:18","slug":"towerofsleep-image-kasimir-malevich-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/towerofsleep-image-kasimir-malevich-red\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23457 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/towerofsleep-image-kasimir-malevich-red\/attachment\/23458\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m4y7l5sHeJ1qzpod3o1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m4y7l5sHeJ1qzpod3o1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m4y7l5sHeJ1qzpod3o1_1280-500x500.jpg 500w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m4y7l5sHeJ1qzpod3o1_1280-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m4y7l5sHeJ1qzpod3o1_1280-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m4y7l5sHeJ1qzpod3o1_1280.jpg 817w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 100px) 100vw, 100px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/towerofsleep.tumblr.com\/post\/24201639498\/image-kasimir-malevich-red-square-1915-june\">towerofsleep<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Image: Kasimir Malevich, Red Square, 1915<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/wtrns.fr\/5257aYlkrfexqE\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>JUNE MIX: RED SQUARE (click to DL)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Bullion &#8211; the age of self (Robert Wyatt)<\/strong><br \/><strong>2. Here We Go Magic &#8211; make up your mind<\/strong><br \/><strong>3. King Tuff &#8211; bad thing<\/strong><br \/><strong>4. Neneh Cherry &amp; The Thing &#8211; dream baby dream (Four Tet remix)<\/strong><br \/><strong>5. Major Lazer ft. Collie Buddz &amp; Lindi Ortega &#8211; good enough<\/strong><br \/><strong>6. Santigold &#8211; the keepers<\/strong><br \/><strong>7. d\u2019Eon &#8211; #109<\/strong><br \/><strong>8. Fatima Al-Qadiri &#8211; d-medley (Ikonika remix)<\/strong><br \/><strong>9. How to Dress Well &#8211; ocean floor for everything<\/strong><br \/><strong>10. A$AP Rocky &#8211; goldie<\/strong><br \/><strong>11. Killer Mike ft. El-P &#8211; butane (champion\u2019s anthem)<\/strong><br \/><strong>12. Le1f &#8211; \u263c\u203f\u263c<\/strong><br \/><strong>13. Inga Copeland &amp; Dean Blunt &#8211; 2<\/strong><br \/><strong>14. Just Friends &#8211; avalanche<\/strong><br \/><strong>15. Valentin Stip &#8211; gravels I &amp; II<\/strong><br \/><strong>16. Liars &#8211; a ring on every finger<\/strong><br \/><strong>17. Grass Widow &#8211; spock on MUNI<\/strong><br \/><strong>18. The Walkmen &#8211; we can\u2019t be beat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Okay, so an mp3 mix isn\u2019t exactly the most stunning gesture of solidarity, but I\u2019m working with what I\u2019ve got, here. This one kicks off with Bullion\u2019s cover of Robert Wyatt\u2019s anti-neoliberalization anthem from 1985 and ends with The Walkmen\u2019s proclamation that \u201cWe can\u2019t be beat\/We\u2019ll never leave\/The world is ours.\u201d Everything in between is just good new music.<\/p>\n<p>Also, while I\u2019m on the subject, I want to address <a href=\"http:\/\/torontostandard.com\/the-sprawl\/quebec-protests-are-something-but-not-arab-spring\">this terrible editorial<\/a> from The Toronto Standard which argues that comparing the Quebec student struggle to the Arab Spring is \u201cembarassing and repulsive\u201d. I disagree on two accounts. Firstly, any invalidation of an argument that rests on, \u201cThey have it so much worse than you, don\u2019t make such a fuss\u201d is flawed, because it only goes one way. By that logic, why protest any raise of tuition fees if other people are already paying more? Or turn it around: labourers in China will work for far less than you, so you should take a pay cut. Or to workers in the global south: you\u2019re lucky to be working for pennies an hour, you could have no job at all! That kind of logic impoverishes everyone.<\/p>\n<p>My second problem with this article is that it makes the extremely common mistake of assuming that the student protest is about a specific amount of money, or in fact, about money at all, when the true significance of the movement is on the symbolic level, as a struggle against austerity politics and the neoliberalization of Canada. It\u2019s about a social-democratic vision of education and Canadian society at large that\u2019s been entrenched in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution; education is not a product but a public good, and the university is not a factory that produces workers but an institution for the production and preservation of knowledge that enriches society. Which is why it shouldn\u2019t be pay-per-use, it should be funded as part of a progressive taxation scheme. (Though reforming the educational institution itself should also be a priority).<\/p>\n<p>At an even larger level, the student protests represent the first step in a war against Harper\u2019s radical restructuring of Canada\u2019s institutions. The fight here is not just for cheaper tuition or even accessible education generally, but against the entire agenda of privatization. If tuition is raised in Quebec, it\u2019s another step in the long neoliberal process of shifting costs down to the lower income brackets and profits up to the higher. To protest now is to say, \u201cWe\u2019re going to fight this every step of the way, because this isn\u2019t the society we want to live in.\u201d We\u2019re not just going to roll over until we can mark another ballot in three years, because too much damage will already have been done by then.<\/p>\n<p>In that sense, this movement <em>is<\/em> comparable to Occupy and the Arab Spring because (one hopes) it involves a politicization and radicalization of a huge section of the population that wasn\u2019t having this discussion before, and a movement into the streets of people who have realized that it\u2019s the only way for their voices to be heard. It\u2019s a big deal.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>towerofsleep: Image: Kasimir Malevich, Red Square, 1915 JUNE MIX: RED SQUARE (click to DL) 1. Bullion &#8211; the age of self (Robert Wyatt)2. Here We Go Magic &#8211; make up your mind3. King Tuff &#8211; bad thing4. Neneh Cherry &amp; The Thing &#8211; dream baby dream (Four Tet remix)5. Major Lazer ft. Collie Buddz &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-66l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23459,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23457\/revisions\/23459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}