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What this LJ will be from now on...
...is a place for me to post more personal entries than those on the public blog or to test out things I'd like to eventually post on the public blog.
The public blog: http://veethemonsoon.wordpress.com
You can syndicate the blog on LJ: internetFeminist Theories Response: The futility of language
The futility of language is a concept which came up a number of times in the readings for this weekend, both through the abstractness/inaccessibility of the writings themselves and in the discussion of language directly. Specifically, Luce Irigaray opens “When Our Lips Speak Together” by saying that “if we keep on speaking the same language ( Read more... )Feminist Theories Response: Judith Butler
In “Contingent Foundations: Feminism and the Question of ‘Postmodernism,’” Judith Butler claims that power is a never-ending, always-changing structure: “If the subject is constituted by power, that power does not cease at the moment the subject is constituted, for that subject is never fully constituted, but is subjected and produced time and ( Read more... )(Untitled)
I do this thing in the bath, I plug my nose and curl up under water, on my back and my knees to my chest, so I don't float to the top. I recently discovered I can cover my eyes so light doesn't shine through my lids. It's like sensory deprivation. I don't strain too much--well, sometimes I do, but not these days--and sometimes I curl into the fetal ( Read more... )WordPress.com
I hadn't realized WordPress.org hosts blogs on its site--WordPress.com. How novel. I've been wanting to use it for a while now, but never had the proper host or programming abilities ( Read more... )"Irish" pubs
Ireland's "Crack" Habit - Explaining the faux Irish pub revolution.
Of particular interest to me (especially the readers' comments), as both an appreciator of "authentic" Irish-American pubs and a former American "barmaid" in the UK.I just spoiled myself
Delivery estimate: March 24, 2006
"Female Chauvinist Pigs : Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture"
Ariel Levy; Hardcover; $15.75
"French & Saunders - On the Rocks"
Dawn French; DVD; $12.99
I can't recall the last time I looked forward to a package quite this much.
(The last French & Saunders DVD I don't have.)
- -Amazon.com addict and proud of ( Read more... )From an interview with damali ayo
damali ayo (creator of rent-a-negro.com) was interviewed in Bitch magazine's Fall 2005 issue.
I found a lot of it inspiring and/or paralleling to my own aspirations and/or practices in political art.
(I don't really agree with the very first sentence--on all art being activism [though that might depend on how you define activism]--but the rest is ( Read more... )Milosevic's death
from BBC News- Slobodan Milosevic: Your comments
What is your reaction to the death of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic ( Read more... )