November 2011
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bestsparkler:
Because the other day I came across the unattributed, unexplained, just copied & pasted, syllabus that a friend of mine put on her tumblr earlier this year, I’m a little reticent to upload here the description, structure, and thematic clusters I’ve designed for the course I’ll teach next semester. I also trust that I can get away without providing too much guidance on the logic...
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i tried saying there is only one person on the...
jc: if you don't think that picture codes as "i'm alone on my birthday and i need attention from the internet" then you are wrong.
kj: stop trying to shame me about my hot picture.
jc: if i didn't know you i would holler at you because i'd think "that girl is home alone on her birthday and wants attention from the internet."
kj: thank you! maybe i should take a picture of myself right now and post it.
jc: hash tag "cry for help."
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“awwww, did i just teach you something about fashion?”
– jc
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Men I Was Attracted to But Also Scared of, an...
onemoresalutetovanity:
1992-2000
AC Slater
Bob Saget
Vanilla Ice
Extreme sportsmen
Fred Durst
it’s pretty easy to make me laugh, but hard to make me laugh as hard as this made me laugh. no, actually, it’s easy to make me laugh that hard.
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“you’re not taking care of your health. you’re like rick ross.”
– jc
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rgr-pop:
If I were to tell the truth in my personal statement, I would say
negotiated an identity as a smart ugly poor kid with compulsive disorders who had a Very Second-Wave Mother, no television, and borderline Hoarding environment, therefore Feelings About Television, Feminist Theories, Self-Representation and The Material
no really though, I became interested in Representation because of...
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re.act.feminism →
amazing. thanks, alex.
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shoulders:
“The worst part about it is that even with perfect sexual fulfillment, mutual guilt-free pleasure, we are still oppressed. After all, some women managed to have vaginal orgasms all along, and they were still oppressed; in fact, that was how you were supposed to achieve orgasm—by surrendering completely to the man’s will, by loving being a woman and everything that that implied. Sexual...
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“minor literature[’s]…cramped space forces each individual intrigue...”
– deleuze and guattari, kafka: toward a minor literature
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(whenwetalkaboutlove)
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I wake up in your bed. I know I have been dreaming. Much earlier, the alarm broke us from each other, you’ve been at your desk for hours. I know what I dreamed: our friend the poet comes into my room where I’ve been writing for days, drafts, carbons, poems are scattered everywhere, and I want to show her one poem which is the poem of my life. But I hesitate, and...
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today i changed my outfit.
but i could have kept wearing it for another month because the only thing anyone would have thought was weird was that my durational performance was so dumb and derivative.
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“if something is to happen you have to come unprepared, unarmed; but you don’t...”
– fred moten, riffing on derrida, in the break: the aesthetics of the black radical tradition (via lowendtheory)
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on impasses and events
“usually an ‘impasse’ designates a time of dithering from which someone or some situation cannot move forward. in this book’s adaptation, the impasse is a stretch of time in which one moves around with a sense that the world is both intensely present and enigmatic, such that the activity of living demands both a wandering absorptive awareness and a hypervigilance that...
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the satisfying something that you cannot generate...
“all attachment is optimistic, if we describe optimism as the force that moves you out of yourself and into the world in order to bring closer the satisfying something that you cannot generate on your own but sense in the wake of a person, a way of life, an object, project, concept, or scene. but optimism might not feel optimistic. because optimism is ambitious, at any moment it might feel...
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literarypiano:
“Sonnet” literally means “little song.” The sonnet is a heile Welt, an intact world where everything is in sync, from the stars down to the tiniest mite on a blade of grass. And if the “true” sonnet reflects the music of the spheres, it then follows that any variation from the strictly Petrarchan or Shakespearean forms represents a world gone awry. Or does it? Can’t form also be a...
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“can you be in a relationship with someone who won’t consent to it...”
– an imaginative friend who is not on facebook trying to understand facebook relationship etiquette. the only funnier technological misfire i heard this week was another friend’s 4-year-old son asking, loudly, over and over and over into his dad’s iphone, “what is the average size of...
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on internet paranoia and the academy
rgr-pop:
mootpoint replied to your post: NO REALLY THOUGH, ADVICE:
Dpepends on the person you’re approaching and what their online presence is like? It shows that you’re doing stuff in the field, but some faculty can be weird about the internet. (I also didn’t get into grad school so not sure how good my advice is.)
pussy-strut replied to your post: NO REALLY THOUGH, ADVICE:
you should totally...
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things i said in a meeting last week even though i...
“no.”
“because i think it’s bad.”
“it’s too 70s.”
“i’m just saying i think it’s bad.”
“no, i know, i like her, but it’s bad.”
“it’s not good.”
“i don’t like it.”
“i’m just not into it.”
“i’m still voting against it.”
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on intellectual generosity
“we’re like: let’s see what happens if i do this thing,” aliza said over drinks in her apartment. “it bespeaks our intellectual generosity.” she meant that we have a penchant for being curious about unlikely objects and will follow them wherever they lead, and that this impetus is equally applicable to our lives as to the subjects of our seminar papers....
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ultramaricon:
I am really psyched that feeltank is blogging again and that she scored that amazing screenname, and I can’t wait for immanent new feminist dashboard constellations with whateverjeanne and karaj.
can’t wait! also: amazing.
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“second wave feminism told women it was okay to want–to eat, to wear pants, to be...”
– my therapist told me that i’m not good at figuring out how much i’m allowed to need and i was like, shit, i should really correct that blog post. (related?) she also told me that my identity has to do with “not needing anything from anyone” and i was like, um, wow.
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“the art of psychoanalysis, for both the participants, is to produce interesting...”
– adam phillips, “first hates: phobias in theory” 