"if i were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, i should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace."
gaston bachelard, the poetics of space
(Source: jungjoo)
17 May 2013 / Reblogged from sylvides with 44 notes / dreamers space matters feminist privacy concerns uselessness
marc luring me out of bed with a fancy coffee maker and a fire so that i can write my feminist dissertation might be my new best example of feminist capitalism.
17 May 2013 / 23 notes / feminist capitalism dreamers space matters
letter from felix gonzalez-torres to ross laycock, 1988
2 May 2013 / Reblogged from suffire with 17 notes / feminist archiving space matters
judy chicago, atmospheres, performance pieces involving smoke and various pyrotechnical materials, various locations in california, 1967
6 Mar 2013 / 22 notes / ambiance feminist art space matters
22 Feb 2013 / Reblogged from sam-conlon with 63 notes / feminist art feminist archiving space matters ambiance
this week in my internet
- was asked by a friend to explain feminist narcissism and said that i can’t. she asked me what i do in conferences and i said i don’t talk about it in conferences, only on tumblr.
- was introduced to someone while standing outside of tisch who immediately said “i read your tumblr.” it took me a second to realize she recognized me because i post so many pictures. i asked if i read hers and she said no, she doesn’t have one: too much self-exposure. she also thanked me for writing about feminist narcissism. i said i was about to post a really good apropos quote from kate zambreno’s heroines, “which i’ve been reading…but i guess maybe you know that.”
- read a post about flow and thought about how shitty mine has been. but i’m also conflicted about the idea.
- read a post about timing and thought that this has been problematic, too.
- read a post about how the internet privileges sight and sound and disagreed.
- was at a party at which it was pointed out that the eight people standing there were all “from the internet.”
- was emailed by the two women i really liked from the digital humanities conference.
- thought about how i still find branding to be loathsome, it’s just for you, it’s about the consolidation of identity, but creating an ambiance is not, it’s for everybody.
"the viral is transformative; it has an open-ended relation to form itself…in its effects on subjectivity, memory, desire, and history, virality suggests a move away from identity; it is a move away from those sorts of representational forms or strategies that privilege interiority, depth, and integrity…the viral brings a porosity of boundaries, with the ease of crossing them, or the requisite to cross them with the expectation of transformation."
patricia clough and jasbir puar in the introduction to wsq’s viral issue
“Let him in and when he says ‘What’s the M for ?’ reply ‘MURDER’”
7 Jul 2012 / 14 notes / elaborate conceptuals space matters feminist terror
Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore’s jaunt to Coney Island, 1936
if i could go back in time to any day and be a fly on the wall - this is definitely in the running
i went to vassar for them, too. i love this poem, but it’s so sad, it’s so sad when people are too afraid to do things.
22 Jun 2012 / Reblogged from lookerlooker with 85 notes / feminist art let's see what happens if i do this thing space matters
