May 2012
15 posts
“We grew up with the Internet and on the Internet. This is what makes us...”
– Piotr Czerski (via azspot)
“If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked.”
– Gilles Deleuze (via earlyfrost)
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half-buzzed anger drunk post:
I’m at yet another point in my life of realizing that I cannot stand to deal with unreflecting boys and the people who support them = everybody who thinks things are just fine and good and nice (IE all the dudes and non-critical people who feed into their faked intellect that’s not really intellect but masturbatory and defensive theorizing without real...
“My mother died of femininity. I told her that I would say this about her […] My...”
– Lauren Berlant (via hysteriarama)
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Fuck pretentious academics who think they’re gods because they rule the 5 person clique of high brow egomaniacs who still think everything digital is nonsense. You don’t know shit about LIFE or real people, I will kick your tenured asses one day in the near future.
“17. because identifying so completely with someone else can only happen by...”
– chris kraus, i love dick (via karaj)
I haven’t read i love dick yet, but ordered it today because of all the tumblr hype, and because of quotes like THIS: “freedom equals panic because without belief there is no language. when you’ve lost yourself to empathy, a total shutdown is the...
April 2012
12 posts
for love (and not for money)
I finally got around (ie mustered the courage) to go talk to my program’s personal NYU librarian about my attempted research, and am now overwhelmed at how much, actually good, research there seems to be on my somewhat vague topic of ‘blogs, feminism, gender, self, tumblr, identity’ and so on. Especially this title made me swoon: “Digital Spaces, Material Traces: How matter...
“Attachments are intrinsically optimistic. The event of attachment does not make...”
– Lauren Berlant 4EVA (via hysteriarama)
“Any social theory worthy of its ambition requires a space for enigmatic,...”
– Lauren Berlant “A Properly Political Concept of Love”, Cultural Anthropology 26:4
“…the fierce tendency of love to express a desire to know and be known, to...”
– Lauren Berlant “A Properly Political Concept of Love”, Cultural Anthropology 26:4
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“work |wərk|
noun
1 activity involving mental or physical effort done in order...”
– “EFFORT”
“BECAUSE we recognize fantasies of Instant Macho Gun Revolution as impractical...”
– Kathleen Hanna, “Riot Grrrl Manifesto” (Bikini Kill Zine 2, 1991)
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“But it is not only this narcissism, offensive to the ego-criticizing faculty,...”
– Freud “The Uncanny”
I’m thinking of the identificatory representations that function not only in the logic of the mirror stage, but also as a form of the double, through which we keep these crucial fantasies alive. I’d like to believe that I got a fictional...
March 2012
9 posts
Theoretical therapy
Just had the most wonderful session with my therapist, we discussed how to combine a post-modernist critique while at the same time holding on, and feeling entitled to, a strong sense of self. My problem has always been that I take the relative self to literally, and I have been floating around from context to context without ever allowing myself to take a stance about what I want. Until now, when...
“Okay, the name, it came from my mom. She’s like a therapist and I said “I had a...”
– Courtney Love
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“It is here that we see the effective power of writing to promote affects of...”
– André Green “The Double and the Absent”
February 2012
10 posts
“We are libidinal beings, that is, we desire in a human rather than an animal...”
– Eric L. Santner “Toward a science of the flesh”
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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
