January 2012
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sonofapritch:
“Artists discover the compulsion toward disintegration in their own works, in the surplus of organization and regimen; it moves them to set aside the magic wand as does Shakespeare’s Prospero, who is the poet’s own voice. However, the truth of such disintegration is achieved by way of nothing less than the triumph and guilt of integration. The category of the fragmentary—which has...
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hysteriarama:
“One version of psychoanalysis will say that the definition of mental health would be the capacity to tell a coherent narrative. From another psychoanalytic point of view, that would be precisely the problem. I think both things are true. People who have suffered ruptured, violated lives need and want some narrative coherence, but narrative coherence quickly can be a problem when...
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hysteriarama:
Part of the reason I think that queer theory and love theory are related to each other as political idioms, is that queer theory presumes the affective incoherence of the subject with respect to the objects that anchor it or to which they’re attached. One thing that is very powerful for me to try and think about is how we could have a political pedagogy that deals with incoherence....
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“like many others before me, i propose that instead the goal is to lose one’s...”
– j. halberstam, the queer art of failure (via ibik23)
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PSA →
(via limchoylee: lagrandefille)
a reliable source says that this website is the worst, or at least has the worst writers/fake theorists and their idiotic articles, but i am reblogging this anyway, in a state of utter mortification, as a PSA, because i personally cannot abide a man telling me i am having the wrong emotional response to his bad behavior, and no else should have to, either.
so if...
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“what are the poetics of menstrual blogging?”
– baby-sitters girl gang: Performative wholesomeness: I WANNA BE A MENSTRUAL BLOGGER*
i literally have no idea how i existed in the world before reading things like this on tumblr or why i would even want to.
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“finding, encountering, stealing instead of regulating, recognizing, and judging.”
– deleuze, a conversation: what is it? what is it for?
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“…it is a question of becoming. people always think of a majoritarian...”
– deleuze, a conversation: what is it? what is it for?
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she always knows just what to say to me
kj: well i had long sleeves on today and got too hot and so sat by the pool in leggings and a t-shirt. and read my favorite philosopher.
hs: who is your favorite philosopher? mine is kara jesella.
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“the precocious mind in its struggle for composure is sustained in its militant...”
– adam phillips, “on composure,” in on kissing, tickling, and being bored
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ATTENTION
shoulders:
LIKEBOOM AND I [SHOULDERS] HAVE BEEN SURVEYING THE FLAME WAR REGARDING THE MEME MANARCHIST RYAN GOSLING WITH INTEREST AND HAVE TO MAKE A NUMBER OF PRONOUNCEMENTS IN DECLARATION
FIRST OF ALL WE BELIEVE THE MEME OF RYAN GOSLING IS FUNNY BECAUSE RYAN GOSLING IS FUNNY LOOKING
SECOND OF ALL WE BELIEVE THE ISOLATED PROFUNDITY OF THE MEME OF RYAN GOSLING DOES NOT NEGATE THE STUPIDNESS OF...
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“abjection…is a precondition of narcissism.”
– julia kristeva, powers of horror
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girlcore manifesto
basquecuisine:
if i am forced to describe my “writing philosophy”, this is what it is. (not to distract from her amazing thoughts, but the term “girlcore” was created by me, and a lot of the ideas etc about it were also inspired by me…just saying this so people don’t think i’m just clinging onto her thoughts/ideas.)
“GIRLCORE meghan (o’neill) and i were talking about this. meghan made this...
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on small, random parts of "the logic of sense"
“sense is about orientation…a play on meaningfulness/directionality…how are we oriented toward language?” “paradoxes articulate an excess of sense.” “even in production of nonsense, sense remains.” “the ground on which language lays itself is fundamentally linked to the mad. what kind of revolution can we have without the mad? this is his...
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“one allows oneself to be re-oedipalized not by guilt but by fatigue, by a lack...”
– deleuze and guattari, “the components of expression,” in kafka: toward a minor literature
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“being well spoken has never been either the distinctive feature or the concern...”
– deleuze, “he stuttered,” in essays critical and clinical
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"strategic confession"
militantmaudlinist:
Chris Kraus: And that’s why this book is a strategic confession. I’m very drawn to the use of the first person. When I started the Native Agents series of books for Semiotext(e) seven years ago, it was to publish the kind of writing that I liked — and that writing was entirely in the first person. And yet it was not an introspective, psychoanalytic “I.” It was an “I” that...
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deleuze on nietzsche
“genealogy as use to which something can be put, so can be wildly contradictory…the practice of seeking out the high or low element…not restricted to interpretation, it is an evaluation, how something has been seized and what has been done with it…what something is is possibility of affecting and being affected…a history of the forces that have transformed...
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reading through my notes from deleuze class
“how can we rewrite the past so that it changes the present into a different future?” “the nobility of failures.” “how to think a politics that isn’t a critique.” “we speak, but luckily not all the time. we also act. speaking is acting, but boring acting.” “geography, not history. spatialization is more important than the movement of...
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fantasies of union
militantmaudlinist:
In ”Black Sun,” depression is characterized by a denial of this normal childhood prehistory, or by what Ms. Kristeva calls ”the denial of negation.” ”Negation” - the usual infantile acceptance of the loss of oneness with the mother - is unconsciously refused by the depressive, who clings to a fantasy of union with the mother instead.
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Ms. Kristeva is also original but...
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"i like an idea of knowledge that grows out of the...
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believeinthefight:
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Fan-made trailer for Sarah Jacobson’s 1993 I WAS A TEENAGE SERIAL KILLER.
“See the horror of righteous dismemberment! Feel the triumph when sexist pigs are wasted! Hear the screams of terror! Join Mary, America’s favorite female serial killer, who kills off dumb men.”
What I want for Chanukah is THIS MOVIE.
WHERE DO WE FIND...
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"they have the best chicken wings at jfk"
this is what my brother told my father when he called at 4 am after we hadn’t been able to reach him for hours and hours and i couldn’t figure out how he could have scored heroin and died when he had all those bags to lug around and wouldn’t be able to do anything inconspicuously, but still, we hadn’t even been able to tell him his 6:30 am flight number. i got all...
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“academia as therapy and a means of self-care is such a thing.”
– what a bummer summer
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caretaking
today my younger brother, the excellent television-watching-partner who gives just the right christmas gifts, and who is also an ever-recovering addict without a home or a job, flew from buffalo to north carolina to “start over” with his girlfriend, who is also a recovering addict, and who has stage 2 cervical cancer. she didn’t pick him up at the airport, and is possibly in the...
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feminist narcissism
tonight my uncle who i adore but haven’t seen in 10 years told me a story, twice, unprompted, about how there was this one time when i was a kid that other kids were making fun of me on the bus (which made me bristle and ask, on the inside, wait, someone(s) made fun of me on the bus?) and when i got off i breezily said, “oh, they’re just immature.” he teared up the second...
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“i can’t believe you are answering all of these questions.”
– someone to my uncle before i had even gotten started
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“like all symptoms, from a psychoanalytic point of view, it was among other...”
– adam phillips, worrying and its discontents
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tirelessly building
“the abjection of self would be the culminating form of the experience of the subject to which it is revealed that all its objects are based merely on the inaugural loss that laid the foundations of its own being. there is nothing like the abjection of self to show that all abjection is in fact recognition of the want on which any being, meaning, language, or desire is founded…
a...
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“tumblr is a great place to put all of your bad feelings.”
– do right woman
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this is my sense of humor exactly
rgr-pop:
I’m a feminist blogger and I think today is just the perfect day to post decontextualized, bland quotes by Hugo Schwyzer (saying, as ever, at best, the same thing non-cis-men feminists have always said) as an act of Merry Fucking Christmas solidarity with men or whatever.
Today, of all the days in all the internet climates, is the perfect day for a random ass Hugo Schwyzer quote.
or,...
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rgr-pop:
Notes On “Camp”
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chikuwaq:
By Susan Sontag, 1964.
I don’t have any particular affinity or strong feeling for Sontag one way or the other, but because it’s a seminal text I feel compelled to reblog this. I think #23 is my favorite.
55. Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation - not...
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so 24 hours ago
kj: what a loser! why did she bother sleeping with him?
nf: she is seven years old and from nevada. also, she is a “temptress” in an american apparel “lace body suit.”
kj: i am not going to lie. i love an american apparel lace body suit.
nf: did you see the GLASSES?
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