#Jeanie Tomanek

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Jeanie Tomanek: Were I but Whole (2018)

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Jeanie Tomanek

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by Jeanie Tomanek

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Jeanie Tomanek

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'A Time To Plant' by Jeanie Tomanek

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"Light the House," by Jeanie Tomanek

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“If you have light internally, you will see it externally."

 -- Anais Nin

[h/t Candice Dyer]

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Jeanie Tomanek - Self rising. Artist's Website

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Jeanie Tomanek

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Essential Worker by Jeanie Tomanek

“The acts of most people do not effect the world but function at a level of wholly contained effects of the world's turning. In contrast the proletariat's anti-act, the act of non-production or of ceasing work, instantly has effect (like in a dream) on capitalism as a whole (in the past few months, lorry drivers, postmen, tube workers, and now railway guards have stopped sectors of the British economy). Most workers are now employed in sectors that are peripheral to the economy's well-being; if they take industrial action it causes inconvenience only to the immediate employer and perhaps a few companies up and down the supply chain. In contrast the essential proletariat is that group of workers who can halt vast areas of the economy by stopping their work.

These workers are employed in the economy's core industries, industries that can only operate with a relatively high level of labour input into their processes, which gives to those workers an already existing control over process; core workers' latent power can be demonstrated immediately in industrial action which spreads its knock-on effect to all businesses in the locality and beyond, producing spiralling repercussions in society. Core-workers include factory workers, dustmen, power workers, distribution workers (post, rail, road haulage, ferries, dockers, etc; in all of these examples the cessation of work causes immediate and widespread problems for the economy, and this is why it is precisely in these industries that wildcat action is most frequent. Quite simply, industrial action in these industries has a history of success.

Our certainty concerning the revolutionary potential of the essential proletariat is not at all founded upon a presumption of the superiority of life lived as a proletarian, or that working class existence is an end itself that should be pursued by pro-revolutionaries. We do not see the modes of working class organisation as an indicator of a possible, post-revolutionary future, nor as an inherently preferable, that is, more morally pure, existence in the present, as compared with middle class life. We say this because these are the pretended presumptions of many inverted snobs in the Class Struggle movement - they tick off proletarian characteristics like naturalists identifying a separate species. We do not pointedly prefer football to opera; we do not think it is better, more pure, more human to be poor than to be rich. We do not think it is inevitable that human kindness is more likely to be encountered in working class individuals than in middle class individuals. We do not think working class people are better than anybody else because they have been defined as belonging to one or other social category. We are not interested in working class culture. We do not accept that you can be working class if you are not employed as a worker no matter what your family history (this is not intended as an insult or slight on people's sense of themselves and where they come from, but we are bored with university lecturers who use "life was hard back then" as a means of asserting their authority). Quite simply, we see the working class as being an economic function organised as part of capitalism and not as being an ethnic identity. If you are no longer employed as an industrial worker then you are not an industrial worker. The same goes for industrial workers when they are on holiday, off sick, in the pub, or indeed any time when they are not present on the actual production line; that is, any time they are not working or having an effect on their work (in official or unofficial industrial action, when they are preventing production).

We are not interested in theoretically expanding the working class to include all militant formations from blacks, gays, women, disabled, to peasants. We are not interested in the working class becoming more human (that is, more political) by means of a raising up through consciousness. We do not celebrate the working class: working class life is rubbish, it is not a condition to be aspired to, and the past thirty years of pro-revolutionary fetishisation of the proletariat as a thing in itself (the legend has it that the leftist group Militant used to force its activists to wear flat caps and donkey jackets on their paper sells so as to fit in) has mistaken and confused the actual power of the working class and reduced the proletariat to the status of just another oppressed minority. Finally we do not endorse the delinquency of the underclass or interpret it as rebelliousness, we see permanent delinquency as the psychological absorption of dehumanisation, no more than a v-sign offered by one who is standing in quicksand. Underclass delinquency fulfils the function ascribed to it by the state: it causes life, particularly that lived on the housing schemes, to be even more constrained than it is already by employment

The working class is nothing but the collective position of those who are brought closest to the machinery of the capitalist system; a human function in the capitalist machine; the working class are the revolutionary body because of, and only because of, their position in the capitalist economy - they are the one social body that can close the system down.

From our experience we see the proletariat as being made up of many individuals, all different, and with just one thing shared by all of them - they have the same economic position, they all have the same functional status (labour) and all have the same economic value (wages). If general circumstances force you to work in an essential industry (and by essential we mean those industries that will make the continuation of capitalist society impossible by their absence) then you are a proletarian. This social status is not something to be fetishised, it's just a fact.

The working class is merely a function of the capitalist economy. We are interested in the proletariat only to the measure that the proletariat literally has in its hands the levers of capitalism's power. Only those who can be effective will be effective.

As for the left, everywhere we see unresurrectable and useless acts, which no matter the intention connect only with institutions that were formed ages ago: revolution has become, for too many, the smashing of mirrors. At the moment this is called anti-capitalism. There are no revolutionary means of connecting to society, there are no means of escaping absolute containment by institutional determinations, except in the locus of production; factory production is where society's power originates and it is the only place where it can be directly engaged for certain. Outside the factories all is spectacle, all is mirrors. Every nonproductive social form is more or less unreal and engaging with them in political terms is always a move into falsity.” - Monsieur Dupont, ‘Nihilist Communism: A Critique of Optimism in the Far Left’ (2009) [p. 21 - 25]

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Jeanie Tomanek

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Vestiges - Jeanie Tomanek

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Another Night Journey by Jeanie Tomanek

Another Night Journey by Jeanie Tomanek

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Sanity no longer has meaning for you.  You’ve seen its daemonical reflection in the Carrion Stone: alembic of static and abysses like a nest of vipers waiting to break free.  You can feel the sun roiling with it, pounding against your skin, making your cock hard and imaginings crawl.  Protected inside the skulking hour in a shroud of no memory, retribution or stinging-claw, nothing to withdraw or leave you completely aborted.  

A nightmare to those who dream, addicted to the feeling of living out of body and without distinction.  The sky is ever on them, penetrating through layers of sediment to the soft and fertile pupae below.  Feeding off emanations of the Black Sun – Red King drifting toward noon as the inverse beckons. 

Artwork by Jeanie Tomanek      

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Jeanie Tomanek

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Jeanie Tomanek

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[Art: Jeanie Tomanek]

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Big Lesson Today it feels so simple: we are here to take care of each other. How could we ever forget? As if soil could forget it is here to feed the trees. As if trees could forget they are here to feed the soil. How could anything ever get in the way of generosity? How could we ever greet each other with any words besides, How can I help you? As if light could forget it is here to help illuminate. As if dark could forget it is here to help us heal. ~ Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

[h/t Jody Grombach]

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