my conference presentation is tomorrow
and it is still too long. i just wanna talk about walter benjamin a lot. is that such a crime, totalitarian panel chair?
now is the time of monsters
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“Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns.” — Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle
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summary of brocialist data journalism panel I just went to
Woman: “I think networks are an interesting way of disrupting the masculinist organization of knowing around the journalistic ethic of objectivity.”
Man: “You are objectively stupid.”
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@murdermetonymy
I was at home in Vancouver. Dearest Judy B gave a lecture there last night called “The Politics of the Street” and it was wonderful.
I layover at SFO on the way back, as well. If it’s a long one let’s drink hilariously huge beers together, but not at the airport.
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So I’m sitting in the San Francisco airport on a layover, drinking a pint of biblical proportions out of a plastic cup and watching “TAXES ARE TERRIBLE” smear ads on a TV hung up in this hilarious and awful “Italian Café” at the end of a moving sidewalk. The dude next to me is talking about how to endorse Obama is to endorse a coward (which, to be fair, is true…but he’s operating more in the ‘he’s a gross pinko queer’ mode).
In the middle of writing this, I got booted from my Wi-Fi connection because I haven’t watched enough BMW ads. In the San Francisco airport, you pay for Wi-Fi by watching one BMW ad every 45 minutes.
In the midst of all this, I’m writing an essay on love, promising, ethics, and action, thinking about how wonderfully Judith Butler spoke last night, and how concisely she managed to offer a vision of change grounded in a reality of struggle. Something about this feels weird and right.
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"There are many debates within feminism, and the women’s movement ought not to be a monolith of orthodoxy. There are, for example, legitimate arguments on both sides of discussion of sex work – whether the stress should be placed on prohibition or harm reduction, say. But such a debate will not be allowed at RadFem2012. I hate to say this of other feminists, but aspects of their feminism – the anti-intellectualism, emphasis on innate knowledge, fetishisation of tiny ideological differences, heresy hunting, conspiracy theories, rhetorical use of images of disgust, talk of stabs in the back and romantic apocalypticism – smack less of feminism than of a cult."
Roz Kaveney in The Guardian on the banning of transpeople from RadFem2012
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A THOUSAND TIMES THIS.
This op-ed is fucking rousing.
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