March 2012
224 posts
“[Y]ou can see that what appears on the horizon of this kind of analysis is not...”
– Foucault, Birth of Biopolitics (via rhizombie)
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Now I have to explain to my father that my studies in philosophy, literature, and history are not causing me to be less religious.
Incidentally, I am not religious. He has simply misidentified the cause.
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It took a few hours, but I finally persuaded my mother that the platform of “family values” is just a ruse for smuggling in ethnocentric heteronormative capitalist values into an already flimsy non-utilitarian model and that in order to protect her own values she would necessarily have to also protect the rights of people in the LGBTQ community as well as women’s rights.
But I...
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“I did not understand that she was hiding her feelings under irony, that this is...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, trans. Constance Garnett (via bookoasis)
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“but I have feels and I demand you acknowledge my feels and also reciprocate them...”
– annoying fucking guys I meet
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“What, precisely, is the relevance of wearing gold grills? What, specifically, is...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates, on the scrutinization of Trayvon Martin’s life. (via theatlantic)
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I guess I’ve decided to delay my graduation a semester. It is sort of a tacit decision as I am on the Winter 2012 graduate list but have just avoided the completion of various mundane tasks required for graduation.
It is a relief to have some more time. I might finally get to do some really interesting independent studies and take some long-awaited classes (Marxism, Philosophy of Mind,...
i’m a delicate flower. don’t tread on me.
i don’t have a “gaze”
and if i did, it would not be female
i’m an octopus
free will-y
“Do not articulate what the ocean
Turning in its bed thinks: What must be said.”
– Dan Beachy-Quick, from “Exegesis of the First Words Spoken (Ishmael)” (via proustitute)
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People who are constantly enamored worry me. I know this guy who is enamored with every woman that has a personality. I think he is genuinely surprised each time he encounters a woman with any particular demeanor and textured set of quirks, preferences, and dispositions. He writes terrible poems about every such woman as though he has discovered some secret gem and wants eventually to make them...
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residueatlas asked: wanna run away from school/life and start a dabkeh troupe with me?
“The solution for the last 50 or 100 years–since logical positivism if not...”
– Elizabeth Grosz, droppin’ knowledge bombs (via hodos-ano-kato)
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I don’t know Elizabeth Grosz but I like her. (via phredology)
“You may say that this [veiling] is the lived reality of many Muslim women...”
– Asma Barlas (via mosprob)
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I am really distressed by the prospect of being a college graduate in a month. I just had to sign a document acknowledging the sealing of my academic record at the end of the term. It was painful. I really want to stay one extra semester and have good reasons for it, but I know that would just erupt in yet another irresolvable tension between my parents and me. They’re more concerned with a...
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“I was lonesome, really lonesome.
I stopped by the pond-
I thought to myself:...”
– “Message of The Goldfish,”
by Sohrab Sepehri
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“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
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I fucking love Margaret Atwood so hard.
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so so much (via lazlazlaz)
“In an abstract love for humanity one almost always loves only oneself.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (via greatrelease)
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Anonymous asked: My biggest problem with...
sonofapritch:
Song: Answering The Phone It’s a really bad idea to bring potted plants into this before I even have a chance to get over how great nature is outside my window! And it turns out even the most ridiculous apparitions indeed have their grounding in the most subtle of gardens, I mean, where else but this great metaphysical beyond can one find the basis for our most amazing television...
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Rosewater-orange blossom-mastic ice cream.
Dying.
indigenousdialogues:
“Isn’t it time our loving freed us from the one we love and we, trembling, endured: as the arrow endures the string, and in that gathering momentum becomes more than itself. Because to stay is to be nowhere.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Duino Elegies: The First Elegy”
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“And then there is the question of how voices are heard and narrated by others....”
– Threads of Narrating the Arab Spring via Jadaliyya (via sharquaouia)
“There was the method of kneeling,
a fine method, if you lived in a country...”
– “Different Ways To Pray,” Naomi Shihab Nye (via clavicola)
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These days I find myself wanting nothing more than for every thing in my room to evaporate into some cloud, for the exposure to be so high that all color is obliterated with a single beam of light. I cannot otherwise find my composure. It is hiding in something small, tucked away behind all of the muddled fragments surrounding me.
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