January 2012
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“the duration of an organism’s present, or of its various presents, will...”
– deleuze, difference and repetition
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SELF-IDENTIFY AS A HATER
hysteriarama:
I’m always being chastised for finding things boring. I can’t count the number of partners who have criticized me for that, everyone likes to think that what they love is so fascinating, nobody wants to see your boredom but these boys are so masturbatory and they drone on about their fucking music and they don’t say anything worth listening to and I can not believe that I am always...
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thinking about the rituals of engagement
oxxenfree:
What if it was never about the person, but instead about wanting to feel a rock on the finger? I mean like made of minerals, a thing you’d throw. Some parts of the earth are so hard we can throw them. I would want to wear that around my finger. Or keep it somehow-other close. Not to marry someone, but to do something petrologically interesting.
remember maybe in october when i asked...
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bossy. i don't even know what she is talking about...
(rgr-pop:karaj:rgr-pop:karaj)
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It should be noted, though, that I will always prefer this “Born to Die” to that Born to Die. It should be noted.
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more on lana because i have to
rgr-pop:
karaj:
i was only half-listening to you guys about lana del rey because i only half-listen to everything, it’s my method, and maybe yours, too. and i saw that my ex-boyfriend wrote something about her, because one of you posted it on tumblr; i’m not linking to it because i’m not looking for it, i was serious about not hate reading, i don’t even read the times anymore, ostensibly...
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my determined non-thoughts on lana del rey
i was only half-listening to you guys about lana del rey because i only half-listen to everything, it’s my method, and maybe yours, too. and i saw that my ex-boyfriend wrote something about her, because one of you posted it on tumblr; i’m not linking to it because i’m not looking for it, i was serious about not hate reading, i don’t even read the times anymore, ostensibly...
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“While everyone thought she was attending, she was living through fairy tales in...”
– Breuer & Freud, 1893. (via feeltank)
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Watchmikkipedia:
sydneyreising:
SO AMAZING
So yes.
“did you want to hurt yourself? did you want to hurt him?” “no. the relationship needed to die.” the part in the car. inevitability/performance.
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a preliminary defense of neal medlyn's juggalo...
lookuplookup:
Girls Get Busy: Kathleen Hanna Is Doing Set Design for a Performance Piece Inspired by Insane Clown Posse
rgr-pop:
God, I’m not even a Juggalo. But this is alienating. I get that fuckin’ magnets is funny! That’s universal, that’s sacred. Jokes about fuckin’ magnets are not offensive to me.
But . I am not a Juggalo, but that is very real to me. It makes me feel like I’m in a...
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geographies, mobility, archiving, affect,...
rgr-pop:
I love, love, love my senior seminar in geographies of public memory. I can be like, “well, I’m working through what different linear directions mean in archiving. also I have feels about things. so I am going to be like WHAT ABOUT ~the material~ as what Lisa Lowe calls “sedimented space”—except material things are not geographically-bound but are rather mobile and relational to bodies...
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“historical dust is not simple metaphor. when taken literally, it reveals how...”
– andre lepecki, exhausting dance: performance and the politics of movement
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“the body, in its most visceral activation, is not only a surface of inscription,...”
– andre lepecki, exhausting dance: performance and the politics of movement
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"this project of perpetual agitation"
“…modern subjectivity is predicated on a particularly exhausting and particularly predatory energetic project—one that demands, on one hand, a constant display of the ontological imperative to enter into a permanent agitation; and on the other hand, one that requires plundering whatever resources there might be available to sustain the spectacle of mobility. by constantly...
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“we do not have to put up with the behavior of people who are fake socially...”
– me to a friend
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“my warrior year just got really real.”
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remember like 2 years ago when i still thought i...
hysteriarama:
“The people I follow on tumblr are like, neurotic bitches with complicated feelings who like menstrual imagery, tough theory, Adrienne Rich, and the SCUM manifesto. Or like the sisters in Little Women as rage-filled academics. It’s like my fantasy feminist collective. I wish we could all have a slumber party and braid each other’s hair and perform black castration magic on Hugo...
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nobody knows what to say to me and it makes me...
“how are you?” [with feeling.]
“you’re back from the great north!”
[stonyfaced or smiling into space when i mention i was away for 7 weeks or in the hospital or had a dramatic breakup which i know they already know but we have never discussed.]
“so what was it like in the hospital? i mean, i read those books incessantly. did you have a roommate?”...
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i have to read 75 books by april 5th
this is my life dream and i’m not kidding. today i bought:
the poetics of space by gaston bachelard
how we became posthuman: virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature, and informatics by n. katherine hayles (“the fate of embodiment in an information age”!)
archive fever by jacques derrida
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possibly imagined conversations
my therapist: then you bit him. (laughter)
kj: yes. it's funny. (laughter)
my therapist: well it's funny and not-funny. (laughter)
kj: it's not funny but it's also funny. (laughter)
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whoops i just now realized there is no way in hell...
negationparty:
i’m a fucking idiot
who could’ve read everything telling me why i can’t do this before i wasted my mom’s money on an application
i couldn’t even get in as a freshman because i flunked out of german and didn’t do anything that the smart college bound kids did because my primary concern was not killing myself/being killed for being a tranny
i want to die. i hate how colleges make...
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i don't know what it is with females but i'm not...
we were watching that episode of modern family where it’s the dreamers vs. the realists and he was like “which one of us is the dreamer and which is the realist?” and i thought about it for a second and was like “i’m the dreamer” and he agreed and said “that’s not what i’m attracted to about you.” then i started laughing and he was like...
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this is the best thing on the internet right now
katydidnot:
can’t decide if it would be ~feminist oversharing~ or just plain oversharing to post pictures of my canker sores. (considering it ~feminist oversharing~ maybe because i associate them with my menstrual cycle and this month i am all about tmi re: menstruation) i have two right now right on top of each other and i took a picture and i think it’s real cool but also it’s like my mouth...
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“although the male, being ashamed of what he is and almost of everything he does,...”
– valerie solanas, SCUM
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“…feelings may be formed and even ‘shaped’ by the means used to...”
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sianne ngai in ugly feelings on jonathan lear’s study of freudian catharsis, love and its place in nature, and susan campbell’s interpreting the personal, which both sound pretty rad. “[lear’s]…argument that in giving conscious, conceptualized expression to...
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“in this theory of envious aggression as critical aggression…the ideal or...”
– sianne ngai in ugly feelings on melanie klein’s “envy and gratitude”
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heroes
A flower in a weedy field make it a poppy. You pick it. Because it begins to wilt you run to the nearest house to ask for a jar of water. The woman on the porch starts screaming: you’ve picked the last poppy in her miserable garden, the one that gives her the strength every morning to rise! It’s too late for apologies though you go through the motions, offering trinkets...
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'will work for drugs' by lydia lunch.
highgold:
You can’t save anyone from themselves. You will lose everything, attempting to play saviour. You will never, ever heal the terminally wounded. You cannot repair the damage already done by selfish parents, vicious ex-lovers, child molesters, tyrants, poverty, depression, or chemical imbalance. You can’t undo psychic wounds. You can’t bandage old scars. You can’t kiss away ancient...
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so my neighbor and i became friends when we were...
kj: i've been feeling great for a week straight. is it going to stay like this?
neighbor: yes. also, i'm seeing someone and we have a lot of awesome sex in my apartment, so if it's loud, i apologize.
kj: you are my hero.
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“as a woman living among the signifying practices of men, i am familiar with the...”
– jo-anna isaak, “our mother tongue: the post-partum document“
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“the question is not: is it true? but: does it work? what new thoughts does it...”
– brian massumi, foreword to a thousand plateaus (via rhizombie). i swoon a little when people tell me they don’t care about truth claims.
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“follow the terror.”
– aliza