March 2011
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the aggressiveness of civility
sometimes “civility” is just another manifestation of “your dry heat feels like power.” definitely not a neutral mode.
the whole article is pretty interesting.
curate:
Panelist Miranda Joseph, associate professor of gender and women’s studies, stressed the importance of making sure voices outside the faculty community are also being heard.
She talked about her own...
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trying to talk with a man
pasunepipe:
by Adrienne Rich
Out in this desert we are testing bombs, that’s why we came here. Sometimes I feel an underground river forcing its way between deformed cliffs an acute angle of understanding moving itself like a locus of the sun into this condemned scenery. What we’ve had to give up to get here – whole LP collections, films we starred in playing in the neighborhoods, bakery windows...
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more on being the cool girl
“we can consider the relationship between the negativity of the figure of the feminist killjoy and how certain bodies are ‘encountered’ as being negative. marilyn frye argues that oppression involves the requirement that you show signs of being happy with the situation in which you find yourself. as she puts it, ‘it is often a requirement upon oppressed people that we smile...
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the scandals of susan sontag →
"_____________(s) That Matter."
tremblebot:
…One of the easiest critiques to launch against theory-heavy or verbose philosophers like Judith Butler or Jacques Derrida or Hélène Cixous is that they are so concerned with high theory that there’s no implication for the day to day, for casual readers to experiment with the philosophies in their own lives. I disagree. In every encounter with others or ourselves, almost every...
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touched: a space of relations →
feb 26 - apr 16, 2011 @ bitforms, 529 west 20th b/t 10 and 11
“bitforms gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition that explores the sense of touch as a metaphor of bodily presence and an extension across boundary. actualizing our understandings of public/private and inside/outside, touch is a gesture system. it manipulates physical, social, psychological and electronic domains, aiding in...
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February 2011
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cabaret →
who wants to go to this show (kathe burkhart, laurie simmons, etc.) with me?
