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Judy, you kill me
theories of feminist identity that elaborate predicates of color, sexuality, ethnicity, class, and able-bodiedness invariably close with an embarrassed “etc.” at the end of the list. Through this horizontal trajectory of adjectives, these positions strive to encompass a situated subject, but invariably fail to be complete. This failure, however, is instructive: what political impetus is…
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Nick Cave at the Shrine
Jack and I drove up to USC to see Nick Cave. This was the Warren Ellis experience, which is fine but not my favorite–the show was OK, but I expect a LOT more from the godfather of goth. He did play the song that I will play at Lisa’s Funeral. Flea joined him for an…
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Swann’s Way (In Search of Lost Time, #1) by Marcel Proust, C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translator), Terence Kilmartin (Translator), D.J. Enright (Revisions)
Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust My rating: 5 of 5 stars Absolutely Fantastic! This is seriously the most important book of the twentieth century. In my 20s, I was told to read this series every decade that you are alive and this may have been the best read-through I have experienced. Honestly, it changed how…
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foucault writes
It would be wrong to say that the soul is an illusion, or an ideological effect. On the contrary, it exists, it has a reality, it is produced permanently around, on, within, the body by the functioning of a power that is exercised on those that are punished. (my emphasis)66 Michel Foucault, Disipline and Punish:…
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Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
Rather, the question is: From what strategic position in public discourse and for what reasons has the trope of interiority and the disjunctive binary of inner/outer taken hold? In what language is “inner space” figured? What kind of figuration is it, and through what figure of the body is it signified? How does a body…
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David Given Schwarm 