May 2013
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Support for the Liberals Hits 44%, or, Why Reactionary Anti-Harper Campaigning is Not Very Useful, or, The Conservatives are Bad, the Liberals are Bad, and You Should Feel Bad.
I’m seeing Dreamgirls tonight and I just…I’m so excited.
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bintbattuta:
In the frictions of a rapidly developing and urbanizing world, human rights are increasingly violated by the organization of space. Just like gun or the tank, mundane building matter is abused as weapons with which crimes are committed. The application of international law as the most severe method of architectural critique has never been more urgent. Crimes relating to the...
“My sense of these aesthetic possibilities comes from the way in which digitality...”
– Anna Munster, Materializing New Media
(for those playing the home game, this is sort of what I was going on about last night in that dumb post re: Google Glass)
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I’m sort of half-watching Out of Africa and every time I tune back in someone else has syphilis.
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dispatches from the front lines of heterosexuality
Arrived home to a parcel on the doorstep. Thought it was the new Nancy Fraser book Fortunes of Feminism waiting for me.
False. Four new dubstep records for my roommate.
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planetjulie:
terry richardson is the new andy warhol in that he is a stupid fucker who sucks at “art” and needs a cool babe to literally shoot him
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ramblings &c.
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Grahhh I really want to write a thing about Google Glass and this whole “let’s make technology invisible” dog and pony show that Google is running. I just keep thinking of how Anna Munster talks about digitality as characterized by lags and flaws and crashes and mistranslations; asynchronicities between the speed of biological bodies and the speed of...
“I don’t give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a...”
– Frida Kahlo, from an unsent letter to Diego Rivera (via c-ovet)
get followed/mentioned on twitter by prominent CBC personality/host
immediately make joke about communism with said personality
let my tombstone read: “Friend. Lover. Noted Twitter Asshole.”
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i think yes.
prospective thesis title: how faggity-ass cyborgs will destroy google glass and capital and look super cute doing it.
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“The capitalist machine does not run the risk of becoming mad, it is mad from one...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (via heteroglossia)
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howtotalktogirlsdialectically replied to your audio post: I tried to play through the opening medley from…
This is beautiful.
thank you for saying so, kitten. xo.
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I am going to be a bridesmaid at my best friend’s wedding this summer and I am pretty much the most excited.
The American Civil Liberties Union just launched a campaign that asks the producers of Modern Family to make the gay couple get married because this is 2013 and we apparently have nothing better to do and I wish I were dead.
I’ve ruined two parties so far this week by talking about the election. Gonna see how many more I can squeeze in before Sunday.
“it could be that this is some degree of sexism . m.i.a. had to deal with this...”
– Björk, on sexism in the electronic music genre (via radioheadofficial)
Bjork is so cool and right about maybe everything
(via adornoble)
omg. <3
howtotalktogirlsdialectically replied to your photo: come 2 me
I hope you plan to share your thoughts on the Nancy Fraser book, once you’ve digested it. I’m curious.
Oh darling you know I can’t keep my mouth shut. I’m really looking forward to reading it.
Another great thing about The Artist is Present is that scene where people give no fucks about James Franco and it so obviously kills him inside and it’s a moment of such beauty. Because destroy James Franco.
thebigblackwolfe:
petition for white gay men to stop everything.
I watched The Artist is Present tonight and found it incredibly moving. There is so much to be said about the way Abramovic’s work lives in the space of affective labour; somewhere between the strucurally masculinist demand that women be “present” and emotionally proximate, and the feminist agent who inabits that demand even while she acts against it, turning a comuplsatory...
litrallynucular:
watching election returns, and I swear I’d dreamt last night: ‘RuPaul turns to the BCNDP Caucus: “Now Don’t Fuck It Up.”’
today sucks because our stupid provincial government is stupid and our stupid federal government is even stupider and there isn’t enough coffee anywhere to deal with the cheap beer I drank last night in a vain attempt to forget about both.
holy fuck. british columbia. way to fucking blow it. christ.
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“I want to ask how the Gothic novel and Gothic monsters in particular produce...”
– J. Halberstam being super fascinating in a pretty early article from 1993. (via mattersofconcern)
“technology of monstrosity.” so good.
“In translating the psychoanalytic to the ethical by way of normativity, Butler...”
– Lauren Berlant goes for the slam dunk on JB (via rhizombie)
[…](via mirrortheories)
U R G8 and I really wanna give a proper response but I’ve been stuck on page 19 of my last paper of the semester for the last 4 hours or so and I gotta finish it and then study for a French final so I’m not...
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“In translating the psychoanalytic to the ethical by way of normativity, Butler...”
– Lauren Berlant goes for the slam dunk on JB (via rhizombie)
Mkay. I have some time to actually think this through now, though my brain is sludge rn. But that’s not unusual.
Basically, lord knows I love Berlant, but I’m just not sure that this critique is based on an especially careful...
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omg accelerationism is so dumb.
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“We declare that only a Promethean politics of maximal mastery over society and its environment is capable of dealing with global problems or achieving victory over capital.”
uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh rly?
I have so many thoughts about this accelerationist manifesto but I don’t think I’m allowed to write any of them here because then I’d just be too parochial and localist and clearly I need to care more about data. Or something.
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“Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they...”
– Warsan Shire, Day Twenty One (via the-reluctant-optimist)
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dispatches from the front lines of heterosexuality
straight dude roommate: *longboards*
