Marking is alchemy not chemistry.
Category Archive — Aphorisms
Possible Books
Sometimes writing a book is like staring into the abyss and trying to yank out threads of possibility. Possible words. Possible sentences.
Liberalism and Privilege
The problem with the standard liberal line of argument on reformation’s preferability to revolution is its advocates’ failure to understand, or accept, or admit that social justice is not equally attractive for all parties specifically because some have much invested in continued relationships of unequal, unearned privilege, holding the world back from change.
Multi-modal Discourse Analysis
Multi-modal Discourse Analysis is one that is updated to suit the specific needs of researchers in cultural and communication studies working with new media forms and formulations where local, global and transnational flows of discourse; notions of production and consumption; and divisions between the popular and the political are increasingly collapsed and folded in upon [...]
Overdetermination
To say something is overdetermined is to say that it is a flawed construct that nevertheless has a certain hand in (re)determining itself through the medium of its affects in the world.
Freud, Reclaimed
A quick and dirty queer and feminist reappropriation of Freud would be to just replace all of his references to “normal sexuality” with “normative intimacy.”
Power (selon Foucault)
Perhaps one of the confusions English readers have reading Foucault in translation is his use of the word power. In English, the word “power” immediately has the connotation of “power over,” so when Foucault writes of multiple sources of power it seems counter-intuitive. Yet maybe the original term, pouvoir, carries a signification lost in translation. Pouvoir [...]
in a simple grain of sand…
Blake talks about how one can see the whole universe in a simple grain of sand. These magnified pictures of sand speak to the truth of this. I think sand is another complex singularity—particular, honed to a familiar articulation and function by time and wave, but simultaneously billions upon billions of endpoints of singular journeys that all come together as a [...]
Reading Haraway…
The cyborg is the bastard of western individual humanism.
Unfinished
Blog writing—but really, all web writing—is unfinished, dilatory, deferred. It’s captured and pushed out into the public sphere still blinking and not-completely-formed, concrete ephemera still in the process of becoming.
