February 2012
6 posts
I just had a presentation in which I (tried)...
Not sure how it actually went.
January 2012
12 posts
“I think there’s a whole other revolution of l’écriture feminine happening on the...”
– Kate Zambreno, talking to The Rejectionist (via hysteriarama)
This is brilliant, and exactly what I want to approach in my work. There are some seriously important things going on here, and it says so much more interesting things about the Internet than twitter or facebook analysises can ever do.
Academic theory vs. practice rant
So after a week of shopping classes I’ve decided to go for a Foucault seminar in the performance studies department, not only because of the chance to get to move through his entire body of work, but also because I want to move away from the dude-iness in my own department. I have recently sort of figured out my thesis topic and it has to do with feminism, activism, aesthetics and teen...
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s...”
– Audre Lorde
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live through this
Healing with Hole and slowly closing in on a thesis topic, trembling among the things closest to my heart, I think this could be big (!?)
December 2011
14 posts
In 2012 I will fully assume my crazy conspiracy...
and hope it soothes my existential teenage angst forever.
...
Och så går 2011 ut med en klump ångest i bröstet. Kanske blir det bättre av att dela med sig här, öppet och ärligt fast ändå inte eftersom det är på hemliga språket (så sa en dansk tjej som tog med mig på rejv i LA precis efter substanstillsatsen: ‘tur att vi kan prata på vårt hemliga språk om det händer något’).
2012 ska jag:
Ta hand om mig själv
Vara snäll mot mig själv
Finna...
“Like Alice Walker, Oprah has been accused of hating men, black men in...”
– This
“The problem for me is to transfer a detached intellectual skepticism into a way...”
– Aldous Huxley
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Listening to 80s Leonard Cohen, soul-searching,...
Nothing is as soothing as that deep dark voice over pompous keyboards. Channeling emotions through aesthetics, feels like I’m 15 dying my hair black again. (Serenity)
November 2011
12 posts
Reclaiming Optimism Through Critical Distance
Tonight is a night when I get lost on Wikipedia reading that Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick died in cancer at age 58 and I cry a little bit because she was such an awesome theorist and then I realize I am actually going to take a seminar with the other prolific affect theorist, Lauren Berlant, this spring, and I die a little death of happiness because of the excitement and the feeling in my gut that...
“Zuccotti Park wasn’t emptied by weather, or the insufficient commitment of...”
– Did Bloomberg do Occupy Wall Street a favor? (via synecdoche)
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“Because it places me in a situation that activates the desires and aggressions...”
– Here
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My green card is actually green
When you go to the immigration interview they ask you if you need an interpreter. Answering no with pride and almost no accent doesn’t really matter inside the beige complex with America posters. You dont have to speak English to be part of this country, we’re all equal on paper.
We have an attorney there to speak for us. He wears a beige trench coat which goes perfectly with his...
October 2011
15 posts
“Culturally biased narrations, abetted by information technology historically...”
– Allen Feldman “on cultural anesthesia: from Desert Storm to Rodney King”
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Intro to my future crime/romance novel about how I...
As people were rioting across the nation and the world, I was preparing the photo album that would present us as a couple with a relationship strong enough to justify immigration. By now the protests had spread to most major US cities and the state had started to respond with force; just two days before our interview the Oakland police threw tear gas grenades and fired rubber bullets at peaceful...
