One of the two writers of this text issues the above advisory. The other writer of this text comments in the shared doc: This drone is made of the flesh of the other? Or is it a drone that targets the flesh of the other? Is it a drone made of the flesh of the Other—crafted to target its own?
Earl from Sterling, IL just registered a drone with the FAA. Scott from Rock Hill, SC just registered a drone with the FAA. Holden from Lincnton, NC just registered a drone with the FAA. Robert from The Woodlands, TX just registered a drone with the FAA. Kevin from Queens, NY just registered a drone with the FAA. See → (Accessed September 17, 2018).
(See Phil Neel’s Hinterland: America’s New Landscape of Class and Conflict →.) Our drone distro (distro is 90s DIY punk scene slang for independent publishing) purportedly includes: xerox of June Gibbons The Pepsi Cola Addict (1982; Out of Print); an unmarked cassette from the Barbara Burford collection at the Glasgow Women’s Library (possibly Burford practicing the feminist sci-fi language of Laadan given that the collection holdings include Burford’s personal copy of The First Dictionary of Laadan (GB 1534 BB/3/3/2); an unauthorized press of Guy Hocquengham’s untranslated L’Après-Mai des faunes (1974) and La Beauté du métis (1979); a risograph (printed with copper-colored ink) of Ti-Grace Atkinson’s essay on abortion as sculpture from Amazon Odyssey (1974; Out of Print); a re-purposed drive holding a pdf of Janet Frame’s Daughter Buffalo (1972; Out of Print). Is this soft samizdat? No.
According to DW: “Probably the most well-known military drones are the large-scale combat drones used by the US, which are all operated from US soil by pilots via a satellite link-up. The Predator, and its larger, newer cousin, the Reaper, both MALEs made by the US firm General Atomics, are armed and used for controversial extrajudicial killings in countries where the US is not officially at war. Reapers can be armed with various air-to-surface missiles, as well as laser-guided bombs, have a range of over a thousand miles and a maximum non-stop flight time of 14 hours. Apart from the US, several other NATO air forces operate Reapers, including those of the UK, Spain, France, and the Netherlands. The Chinese-made rival, the CH-4, which looks very similar to the Reaper, has been bought by Egypt and Iraq.” See → A M.A.L.E. drone is a Medium Altitude Long Endurance crewless aerial vehicle.
Seventy-seven (77) drone owners are currently completing the drone registration compliance form at 4:00 p.m. EST on September 17, 2018. I note that the pop-up notifications of registrees is cycling; I am recognizing men and their towns repeating. When I log on at 6:25 a.m. on September 18, 2018, it claims: “9 drone owners are currently completing the drone registration compliance form;” the same individuals from the previous day appear to be still registering various models of drones.
“Amazon.com strives to be increasingly efficient to ship customers’ orders as quickly as possible from its fulfillment centers around the world.” Italics are the authors’. See images such as one captioned “XXX pulls items from a multi-bin to package for shipping at the Amazon fulfillment center in Chattanooga, Monday, Dec. 1, 2014. On Cyber Monday Amazon expects customers to order more than 36.8 million items worldwide,” →.
Some T.S. Eliot scholars attend to the confluence of Eliot’s anti-capitalism and racism. These are two ideological strains that are currently presumed to proliferate in separation; additionally, the racist dimension of how US capitalism continues to extract from certain bodies and actual places contributes to the popular perception that to be anti-capitalist is to be antiracist. Ezra Pound and Eliot provide cautionary proto-examples of this admixture and how it is carried by aesthetics. (These two hashed politics and poetry; these two played tennis together.)
thero is Láadan for zero.
“The very first tiny Láadan dictionary, before the one published by SF3, was prepared and illustrated by artist Karen Jollie. It hasn’t been available for decades.” See →.
Láadan for drink
Láadan for drinker
Láadan for vagina
If we return to the cave, as suggested here, who else might be there? In the Pleistocene, caves become a juncture and sorting space for two different species of hyenas as well as competing hominids. Scientist Susanna Katherine Sawyer writes,“We show that the spotted hyenas that contaminated the two Denisovans come from a population of spotted hyenas found in Pleistocene Europe as well as present-day Africa, while the spotted hyenas that contaminated Altai 2, and possibly Altai 1, come from a population of spotted hyenas found in Pleistocene eastern Russia and northern China. This indicates that Denisova Cave was a meeting point of eastern and western hominids as well as eastern and western spotted hyena populations” From Sawyer’s qualifying thesis: “Insights into Neanderthals and Denisovans from Denisova Cave”
This segment of JoniBot cribs directly from Joni Mitchell lyrics available on →.
According to Violence Policy Center: “Nationwide, 1,615 females were murdered by males in single victim/single offender incidents in 2013, at a rate of 1.09 per 100,000. The study found that nationwide, 94 percent of women killed by men were murdered by someone they knew. Of the victims who knew their offenders, 62 percent were wives or other intimate acquaintances of their killers. The study also found that black women are disproportionately impacted by fatal domestic violence. In 2013, black females were murdered by men at a rate of 2.36 per 100,000, two and a half times higher than the rate of 0.95 per 100,000 for white women murdered by men. Nationwide in 2013, out of the 1,615 female homicide victims, 1,086 were white, 453 were black, 36 were Asian or Pacific Islander, 21 were American Indian or Alaskan Native, and in 19 cases the race of the victim was not identified.” See →.
John Smith, “What happened in the first government after the alteration, in the time of Captaine George Piercie, their Governor,” 1609, from The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624), 106. Digital edition: University of North Carolina, Documenting the South: See →.
Valerie S. from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, reviewer of Reviews of Lake Sakakawea →.
Reviews of Lake Sakakawea →.
Valerie S. from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, reviewer of Reviews of Lake Sakakawea →.
Selective list of First Nations in the state known as Virginia, but was (at least parts of it) known as Tsenacommacoh.
Selective list of First Nations in Massachusetts. Massachusetts, from the Wampanoag word Massachuset, which means “by the range of hills.”
Selective list of First Nations in Pennsylvania
Selective list of First Nations in Pennsylvania
A selective list of First Nations in California
Lake Sakakawea is part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River Basin Program, the largest reservoir and dam system in North America. Under this program and beginning in the 1940’s, a series of dams were to be built on the Missouri River. The plan devastated First Nations communities along the river. The dams inundated Reservation land, including all the timber, agricultural and grazing land; eighty percent of inhabits were forced to relocate to other reservations, which lacked infrastructure. Critics argue that this system of dams destroyed more Indian land than any other such project in the USA. See Peter Capossela, “Impacts of the Army Corps of Engineers’ Pick-Sloan Program on the Indian Tribes of the Missouri River Basin.” See →.
After the destruction of the Fort Berthold Reservation, people were forced to move into New Town, White Shield, and Madaree. There was an initiative to name the new towns Vanish (a portmanteau) of the Van Hook and Sanish, two of the towns bulldozed during the construction of the dam.
Sugar Hill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight,” 1979.
George Washington, letter to Lund Washington, December 25, 1782. See →.
George Washington, diary entry, January 17, 1790 in Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life (Penguin, 2010), 437.
Multiple allusions radiate from the name of this bot, ranging from a post-apartheid South African secret military force to the indigenous North American plant utilized by both slaves and southeastern first nations tribes for both medical and culinary purposes. See → Finally and centrally, Mitzi J. Smith (in Womanist Interpretations of the Bible: Expanding the Discourse (2016)) frames sass as both a biblical inheritance (Mark 7:24–30) and a set of historic and contemporary strategies (physical and verbal) deployed by African-American femmes. This SASSATRON is programmed to talk back because the SASSATRON is operating outside of capital gain and outside of death; the SASSSATRON is lively but isn’t alive. The womanist who programs the SASSATRON, according to Alice Walker (who coined the term) must be: “1. From womanish. (Opp. of “girlish,” i.e., frivolous, irresponsible, not serious.) A black feminist or feminist of color. From the black folk expression of mothers to female children, “you acting womanish,” i.e., like a woman, usually referring to outrageous, audacious, courageous or willful behavior. Wanting to know more and in greater depth than is considered “good” for one. Interested in grown-up doings. Acting grown up. Being grown up. Interchangeable with another black folk expression: “You trying to be grown.” Responsible. In charge. Serious… .4. Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. From Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983)
From Womanist Theological Ethics: A Reader, Katie Geneva Cannon, Emilie Maureen Townes, Angela D. Sims, eds. (Westminster John Knox Press, 2011).
From Láadan Lesson Four, “Asking Questions”: “Does the dragon have a suitcase?”
Excerpt from a letter written by Washington to Dr. Jean-Pierre Le Mayeur, in Ron Chernow, Washington: A life. In 1783, Washington contracted the French dentist to design and build a set of dentures.
Figures from George Washington’s accounting book, 1784.
The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association began to form in 1853; they remain the official stewards of the site. Their founder writes that female members “shall be of a family whose social position would command the confidence of the State (Author’s emphasis), and enable her to enlist the aid of persons of the widest influence ... She must be able to command considerable leisure, as the duties will require much time until stipulated funds are raised.” See →.
This is not an exhaustive list, nor does it include scores of books, plays, memorabilia, and souvenirs.
The Wel me ti is one of the ethnic groups comprising the Washo nation. The Washo (better known as Washoe) are the original inhabitants of Da ow aga (Lake Tahoe) and all the lands surrounding it. Washoe is a mispronunciation of Da ow, meaning “lake.” The Washo were divided into three groups: the northerners, or Wel mel ti; the Pau wa lu, who lived in the Carson Valley in the east; and the Hung a lel ti, who lived in the south. The Paiute and Shoshone lived to the east and the Maidu and Miwok to the west. Generally, a family was distinguished by whoever lived together in the galais dungal (winter house) during the winter months.
From a US History lecture by Harvard Sitkoff, 1991. The skull belonged to a Chinese laborer killed in one of many anti-Chinese massacres in the American West.
The site of the Donner Party’s winter encampment later becomes the town of Truckee, where white settlers successively burn down the homes and businesses of Chinese settlers.
Thocmetony, Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883).
White Settlers, in historical documents, will sometimes refer to both the Numa and the Bannock as Northern Paiute, although they are separate bands. The Bannock, at a certain point, became aligned with the Shoshone. On Thocmetony‘s activism, see →.
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, a scholar of First Nations Literature and Law, claims that translation is “the central act of European colonization and imperialism.” However, this statement must be also held next to the fact of Thocmetony delivering 300 speeches in defense of the Paiute. According to Jennie Hissa, in “Translation and Treachery in the 19th-Century Work of Native American Writers Sarah Winnemucca and Zitkala-Ša,” for Thocmetony to insist on herself as not separate from her people and on her people as existing previously, with, and after white settlers is a type of anti-imperialism at work.
Winnemucca lobbied for the release of her people from the Yakima Reservation. See Sally Zanjani, Sarah Winnemucca (University of Nebraska Press, 2004)
Gae Whitney Canfield, Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes (University of Oklahoma Press, 1988).
’Tis the season: whites hope that they can be purge again, or, to put it in tamer terms, their ambition is to dream about purity with impunity. This year, Whitey hopes: can Big White Father kill Little White Father? This fantasy flexes back and forth amongst left and right Caucasians, each gerrymandering alternate versions of whiteness and goodness, each skittish of their own blood.
The FBI suspects that the mother generated the handwritten ransom note found in the Ramsey home: “Listen carefully! We are a group of individuals that represent a small foreign faction. We respect your bussiness (sic) but not the country that it serves. At this time we have your daughter in our posession (sic). She is safe and unharmed and if you want her to see 1997, you must follow our instructions to the letter.” Note: the author’s evocation: a small foreign faction that does not respect the United States. In 1996, the writer does not have the word terrorist at his or her disposal. Later, from Thailand, an American expat claims he killed JonBenét. He is (on a symbolic level) guilty. His false testimony hangs between his legs. His body responded to the stolon.
The hospital Hôtel-Dieu de Québec originally stood in a village called Sillery, which was also the first Canadian “Indian reserve,” established at the site of an Algonquin eel-fishing cove. The hospital relocated to Quebec in 1644.
Also known by English speakers as Eve’s Cups, Fly-Catcher, Fly-Trap, Huntsmen’s Cup, and Pitcher Plant.
As David S. Jones writes in Rationalizing Epidemics (Harvard University Press, 2009), “They exploited epidemics to obtain land, fur, and research subjects, and used health disparities as grounds for ‘civilizing’ American Indians.” These tribes were intentionally infected with smallpox, by way of blankets and faulty inoculation. In Beyond Germs, an edited anthology on native depopulation in North America, scholars dismiss widespread and deep-rooted settler fantasies of the near eradication of First Nations peoples by way of disease; these fantasies allowed and allow white populations to overlook the complex range of resistance to colonial settlerism as well as their own complicity. In the introduction, Paul Kelton, Alan C. Swedlund, and Catherine M. Cameron write: “Warfare, enslavement, land expropriation, removals, erasure of identity, and other factors undermined Native populations. These factors worked in a deadly cabal with germs to cause epidemics, exacerbate mortality, and curtail population recovery.” Beyond Germs: Native Depopulation in North America (University of Arizona Press, 2015), 3.
For example: The New England Medical Gazette Medical Gazette Publishing Company, 1886
See →.
Direct translation from Niisitapiikwan language is “Original Person.” Sometimes this is used to refer to four distinct nations that have historically been regarded by settlers as one group, the Blackfoot.
In the past, these Yankton and Yanktonai were erroneously referred to as the Nakota, the Stone Sioux, and the Assiniboine. Presently, internally the two are referred to as Wičhíyena, although the Yankton and Yanktonai are distinct tribes.
Mort de Rire (French version of LOL). Direct translation: dying of laughter.
Johnson House (Philip Johnson; 1945); Farnsworth House (Mies van der Rohe; 1951) Noyes House (Eliot Noyes; 1955) are view, unbound; each an architectural inversion of the arrow loop, but on North American ground. At first, these structures feel built for voyeurs, for lazy stalkers, for some midcentury murderers. Or were they built for the sort of client who has never been exposed, opened up, broken into? Designed by the sort of architect who never had someone call and claim: I see you. I am watching you right now. Your blouse is green. You are holding your cat.
Architect Eleanor Raymond designed Solar House’s structure; engineer Maria Telkes designed its heating system, and the never-married Boston heiress and sculptress Amelia Peabody financed the structure. The guest house was constructed on Peabody’s property. Raymond also designed the first modern house in Massachusetts and Peabody’s Bauhaus-influenced sculpture studio. Her longterm companion, Ethel Powers, was editor of House Beautiful. Eileen Gray and Eleanor Raymond were both central to their cities’ respective circles of elite lesbians.
Note that the many documents (articles and books) consulted by both writers regarding E1027 did not analyze the servant quarters, even when feminism and/or queer studies purportedly animated the analysis.
See Mirror-Induced Behavior in Magpies →. Mag comes from Margaret, and pies means pointed. It was considered a chattering “Margaret”—a female bird.
And the creature, it memorizes the look of its body in the reflections of the glass room we write in. It’s capable of that. Scientists ran an experiment to see if Pica pica could recognize itself in a mirror. The so-named Harvey and Lilly of the study avoided their doubles but the so-called Gerti, Goldie, and Schatzi “spent considerable time in front of the mirror,” thoroughly examining their mirror-images. We are embarrassed that images of first Vito Acconci, then Dan Graham, and finally Chuck Close in open mirror exploration arrive unbidden. Open-mirror exploration: “In a 4 × 4-m room, a mirror 55-cm wide and 40-cm high was placed on the ground, leaning against a pole, and slightly tilted. The position of the mirror was in the middle of one of the walls with about 1.5-m distance from the wall, allowing the birds to move around the mirror. The tested subject could move freely in the room. After a baseline trial with the mirror replaced by a grey, non-reflective plate, five test sessions of 30-min duration were given to each of the birds. The behavior of the birds was observed from an adjacent room by means of a video system, and trials were videotaped.” from Mirror-Induced Behavior in Magpies.
The authors thank the Baltic Writing Residency, where this work was developed.