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“Technology will set us free!” and other hilarious jokes

Tomas Águas / February 26, 2024 / Leave a Comment

If the feverish acceleration and subsequent stagnation of cultural feedback loops in the 2000s-2010s taught us anything, it’s that there are no absolute solutions, simply sites of resistences. Nonetheless those resistences involve fostering mixed-use developments, enhancing community engagement, and implementing an ethical and philosophical position.

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Blog, Culture, Philosophy, Recto, Technology

Pills and Perspectives ep. 1: Gaycels

Tomas Águas / January 29, 2024 / 1 Comment

Yes, we’ve all been emo cucked, as we, in our atomized and isolated culture, lament and languish over our failures to connect to the point that we have to produce spectacular images in order to vicariously experience intimacy. Mmm.

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Blog, Culture, Philosophy, Recto

In Defense of Lost Causes

Administrator / January 28, 2024 / Leave a Comment

In reflecting on the monumental endeavor that was OccupyICE SATX, it’s clear that while the occupation had its shortcomings, it also served as a beacon of hope and a testament to the power of grassroots activism. Despite the challenges faced, including ideological differences, security concerns, and logistical issues, the occupation managed to achieve significant successes and valuable lessons.

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Activism, Culture, Labor History

Tomas In The City of Ghosts and Monsters

Tomas Águas / January 28, 2024 / Leave a Comment

In my childhood, the sky overflowed with stars. I’d gaze up, envisioning constellations like the big dipper sharing from the milky way. Now, the stars have vanished, replaced by clouds which blot out the moonlight. Instead, parasites scour the wasteland-sky carrying kilos of Amazon packages and Funko Pops. During especially dark nights of the soul, I will hallucinate two planes as the eyes of a great dragon, patiently waiting.

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Blog, Culture, Nostalgia, Philosophy, Recto

Is Our Lady Here?

Tomas Águas / November 25, 2023 / Leave a Comment

I am mezclado, what used to be called mestizo. I am a product of colonialism and this is the history I inherited. With that said, the few bits of Tonantzin Coatlicue and her children that have been able to survive, by passing the stories down through the generation or receiving miracles, I am glad for she is still with us.

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Blog, Family, Verso

Why do the dead keep dying?

Tomas Águas / November 25, 2023 / 1 Comment

Death is abstracted, turned into graphs and metrics of government efficacy, and we are prescribed a plethora of ways of avoid it, and in exchange for mere survival. We do not live for the pursuits of life, rather we live to avoid death and those in death.

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Blog, Death, Family, Recto

Do Rednecks Wear White on Labor Day?

Rick Saldaña / October 19, 2023 / 1 Comment

Then I started thinking about the color red. Red; red like the blood on the street or the red on their necks, the soot on their denim and the dust in their eyes. Red, red, red.

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Blog, Labor History, Verso