May 2013
11 posts
Caterpillar crawled
Tiny little thing
Antlered the branch shook
Along with the wind
Pop called it natural
Ma called it sin
“The human is understood differentially depending on its race, the legibility of...”
– http://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/butler-undoing_gender.pdf
“The Hegelian tradition links desire with recognition, claiming that
desire is...”
– http://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/butler-undoing_gender.pdf
“If gender is a kind of a doing, an incessant activity performed, in
part,...”
– http://selforganizedseminar.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/butler-undoing_gender.pdf
“The superficial opposition between pleasure and duty is overcome in two...”
– Slavoj Žižek · ‘You May!’: the post-modern superego · LRB 18 March 1999
“A good illustration of the way the ‘totalitarian’ master operates is provided by...”
– Slavoj Žižek · ‘You May!’: the post-modern superego · LRB 18 March 1999
“But New Age wisdom, too, relies on the superego imperative: ‘It is your duty to...”
– Slavoj Žižek · ‘You May!’: the post-modern superego · LRB 18 March 1999
“For psychoanalysis, the perversion of the human libidinal economy is what...”
– Slavoj Žižek · ‘You May!’: the post-modern superego · LRB 18 March 1999
“In a permissive society, the rigidly codified, authoritarian master/slave...”
– Slavoj Žižek · ‘You May!’: the post-modern superego · LRB 18 March 1999
“What psychoanalysis properly concerns itself with are the unexpected...”
– Slavoj Žižek · ‘You May!’: the post-modern superego · LRB 18 March 1999
April 2013
24 posts
“The task of all of these movements seems to me to be about distinguishing among...”
– Undoing Gender, Judith Butler
“As a result, the ‘I’ that I am finds itself at once constituted by...”
– Undoing Gender, Judith Butler
“Contrary to orthodox Marxist praxis, which solely seeks to implement an...”
– Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“For their part, Frankfurt School theorists quickly came to realize that a...”
– Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“rather based their work on the epistemological base of Karl Marx’s work,...”
– Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Whereas traditional theory can only mirror and explain reality as it presently...”
– Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Horkheimer maintained that critical theory should be directed at the totality of...”
– Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“What critical theory attempts to do is to place itself outside of philosophical...”
– Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“A certain sort of story (a narrative) was provided to explain what was happening...”
– Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“The original aim of critical theory was to analyze the true significance of...”
– Frankfurt School - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Yet the city housing projects designed to perpetuate the individual as a...”
– Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
“If any man consider the present aspects of what is called by distinction...”
– Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance - Wikisource, the free online library
“But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be...”
– Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance - Wikisource, the free online library
“There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak...”
– Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance - Wikisource, the free online library
“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule,...”
– Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance - Wikisource, the free online library
“I do not wish to expiate, but to live. My life is for itself and not for a...”
– Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance - Wikisource, the free online library
“No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names...”
– Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance - Wikisource, the free online library
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and...”
– Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance - Wikisource, the free online library
“The subjugation of women, in the ways which are characteristic of late...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich. What is Socialist Feminism? 1976
“Instead of collectivity and self-reliance as a class, there is mutual isolation...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich. What is Socialist Feminism? 1976
“The problem with this, from a socialist feminist point of view, is not only that...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich. What is Socialist Feminism? 1976
“Marxism addresses itself to the class dynamics of capitalist society. Every...”
– Barbara Ehrenreich. What is Socialist Feminism? 1976
“So ok. I also want politics to stay the hell out of my orgasms. BUT OH THEY JUST...”
– Facials, feminism, & performance: On f**king men in a patriarchy ‹ Feminist Current
“I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing...”
– Frank Kafka, On the Tram (via yesyes)
March 2013
6 posts
“i am a woman and my poems
are woman’s: easy to say
this. the female is...”
– The Practice of Magical Evocation by Diane Di Prima (via iamapatientboy)
Total Information Awareness by John Beer
onehundreddollars:
The formatting on Tumblr is weird. Read it here: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/239562 It’s one of the best pantoums I’ve ever read.
“What you get from the poem is precisely what you give to it. And that’s...”
– Evening Will Come
“This will be hard work, though, and a kind
of laziness pulls me back into my...”
– Descartes, Meditations
Third Industrial Revolution →
“Nor is the harm produced by the creation of a child usually restricted to that...”
– David Benatar (via damnfinecupoftea)
February 2013
1 post
from Gabe Foreman, "Dish Bitches"
poetryeater:
Every boomerang I toss wobbles off to clobber a neighbour.
My stack of stapled job apps circles back to chain me to this sink of steel—
elbow-deep in foaming pots scraping veal and apricots
from dented pans and countertops … Half-asleep at work, I’m dreaming
jungle rivers, sleeping with a tiger, not holding down a job
that goes nowhere, chops the air,
and wanders back into...
December 2012
10 posts
“It is a matter of countering the “used-upness of certain forms or...”
– From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern … - Gerhard Hoffman, Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.) - Google Books
“The crisis manifests itself, as the Russian Formalists have maintained, in...”
– From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern … - Gerhard Hoffman, Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.) - Google Books
“In our “society of the spectacle” (Debord), history is just an...”
– From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern … - Gerhard Hoffman, Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.) - Google Books
“Foregrounded are “hybridity, render the world around them an aesthetically...”
– From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern … - Gerhard Hoffman, Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.) - Google Books
“Postmodern fiction reflects and confirms the surface orientation of the...”
– From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern … - Gerhard Hoffman, Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.) - Google Books
“…by the intensification of irony as attitude and form, by the aesthetic of...”
– From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern … - Gerhard Hoffman, Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.) - Google Books
“Our time has not only been called postmodern, but also post-social,...”
– From Modernism to Postmodernism: Concepts and Strategies of Postmodern … - Gerhard Hoffman, Gerhard Hoffmann (Dr. phil.) - Google Books
“After the Second World War, intelligence reports emerged from Germany of...”
– Inside the U.S. Military’s Chemical-Weapons Tests : The New Yorker 