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What ever happened to the consciousness of empire?

It’s not that Kony2012 doesn’t present substantial ethical and moral problems. It’s that they are framed in such a way that detaches them from the legacy of American slavery, coloni...

15 mar 12

‘Learn to read me well!’

It’s no secret I hold a deep admiration for Nietzsche. I’ve been careful, with whom I’ve shared this interest, to sharply distinguish my own obsession with him from the easy, adoles...

24 nov 11

Engels, monogamy, sodomy

Engels reads monogamy as a sign of the coming of civilization, the end of barbarism, and the crystallization of certain romantique ideologies whose influence may extend as far back as antiquity. As a...

19 oct 11

Angela & Toni in conversation at the NYPL

 

15 jul 11

Socrates…who does not write

01 nov 10

Heidegger on will as will to power

7. Will as Will to Power “…power can never be pre-established as will’s goal, as though power were something that could first be posited outside the will. Because will is resolute o...

27 sep 10

Proust on memory

“The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a...

23 aug 10

Proust on language

“…one has a barrier between oneself and the rest of the world the barrier of a strange language.”

02 aug 10

“Do not be in a hurry…” Jane Austen, letter to her niece

Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last; you will in the course of the next two or three years meet with somebody more generally unexceptionable than anyone you have yet known, who will...

07 may 10

draft #1

Efforts to “deconstruct” the closet are misdirected. One, they presuppose that deconstruction is a theoretical lens that can be appropriated to view or do something to an object of study, whereas dec...

02 may 10

Aristotle on young people in love

“Young people are prone to erotic passion, since this mostly follows feelings, and is caused by pleasure; that is why they love and quickly stop, often changing in a single day.” Aristotl...

02 may 10

A big Fuck You to Utah

for criminalizing the already traumatic experience of having a miscarriage. Way to completely warp systemics realities and deflect any critical understanding of “domestic violence” onto m...

01 mar 10

fetishizing these commodities

28 feb 10

A big Fuck You to Sarah Palin

for appropriating a revolutionary rhetoric while claiming she’s a part of a democratic, grass roots movement. You fascist crazy.

15 feb 10

GaGa and Race

A post-to-come on a topic begging careful analysis: Lady GaGa and her use of race in her music videos, photo shoots, and performances. The photo on the left is of Kanye and GaGa for the deluxe editio...

09 jan 10

Burmese Python

The Burmese Python is not native to the Florida everglades. Yet, they are there in mass. They are as fierce as the American Alligator, it’s native competitor. They can kill and consume anything...

03 jan 10

Deleuze, Nietzsche, Philosophy

A few passages I found interesting in Deleuze’s first chapter of Nietzsche et la philosophie 1. The Concept of Genealogy “The philosopher is a genealogist rather than a Kantian tribunal j...

27 dec 09

Politically Queer: Social In(queer)y and the University

I think I might submit a paper…undergraduate revolt.

10 dec 09

Andrea Smith on the Academic Industrial Complex

I’m taking a break from writing my essay on Fanon/Arendt to post an interesting essay I read by Andrea Smith on the similarities nonprofit industrial complex and the academic industrial complex...

07 dec 09

Adam Lambert & Ellen DeGeneres, sexual shame, homonormativity

It’s a dismal situation for queer politics when gay and lesbian celebrities can’t talk frankly and openly about homophobia and sexual shame. Take a look at Adam Lambert’s interview ...

02 dec 09

Arendt on Fanon

I’ve tried to find more on “spontaneity” in Arendt and Fanon. I’ve ultimately found more of her criticisms on Fanon’s necessary violence. This quote is from an essay I&#...

01 dec 09

Du Bois, double-consciousn ess

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on ...

30 nov 09

Freedom, Violence, and Action / Fanon and Arendt

I’m having trouble with Arendt’s idea of freedom and action. I think she may be obsessed with Kant, leading her to conclude that freedom is no more ascertainable to the inner sense and wi...

28 nov 09

Margo Jefferson on Michael Jackson

Margo is one of my professors this semester. I’m sitting in her class right now! Here is a clip of her speaking on Michael Jackson and his legacy. Her analysis is careful, rigorous, and insight...

23 nov 09

Whitman & Dickinson, Self & Nation

Faith Barret, Inclusion and Exclusion: Fictions of Self and Nation in Whitman and Dickinson, The Emily Dickinson Joural, Vol. V, No. 2 “In Leaves of Grass, Whitman establishes a lyric self by w...

22 nov 09

fetishizing this commodity

This is the Roland AX-1 AX 1 Midi Keyboard Keytar Controller. Christmas?

22 nov 09

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