December 2009
169 posts
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favour...”
– Frederick Douglass, slavery abolitionist (via secrets0ciety) (via redguard) (via fyeahsocialism)
“What is meant by “Being-in”? Our proximal reaction is to round out this...”
– What Heidegger Means by Being-in-the-World (via wildcat2030) (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via exiledsoul)
“I draw a radical distinction between the symbolic and the substantial. As a...”
– Cornel West (via langer) (via unburyingthelead)
“Contradiction in the capitalist mode of production: the laborers as buyers of...”
– Karl Marx, Capital volume 2 (via newleft) (via fyeahsocialism) (via jhnbrssndn) (via unburyingthelead)
“If you go home with somebody, and they don’t have books, don’t fuck ‘em!”
– John Waters (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via applecocaine)
serious rule for life.
(via champagnecandy)
real talk.
Double Event on Indigenous Peoples and the Law
kithandkoko:
Event #1 UC Riverside Symposium INTERPRETIVE VIOLENCE OF THE LAW January 14, 2010 3pm - 8pm INTS 1113 CHASS Interdisciplinary Symposium Room Speakers: Glen Coulthard (Dene - University of British Columbia)- Subjects of Empire & The Politics of Recognition Audra Simpson (Mohawk - Columbia University)- Sovereignty and Failed Consent Dylan Rodriguez (UC Riverside)-...
David Harvey: Organizing for the Anti-Capitalist... →
curate:
The historical geography of capitalist development is at a key inflexion point in which the geographical configurations of power are rapidly shifting at the very moment when the temporal dynamic is facing very serious constraints. Three percent compound growth (generally considered the minimum satisfactory growth rate for a healthy capitalist economy) is becoming less and less...
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we...”
– Albert Einstein (via mnmal) (via proofmathisbeautiful)
“The problem of totalitarianism isn’t its blocking of one from a world;...”
– Jodi Dean, totally/totalitarian
“Definitions of the intellectual are many and diverse. They have, however, one...”
– Zygmunt Bauman, Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Post-Modernity and Intellectuals
“To claim “I is an Other” would be, in this case, to propose a symbolic...”
– V.Y. Mudimbe, The Invention of Africa
“[I]f we are going to hold on to radical democratic prospects, we need to...”
– Russ Castronovo. “Souls That Matter: Social Death and the Pedagogy of Democratic CItizenship,” in Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics
“Power is not evil. Power is games of strategy.”
– Foucault, “The Ethics of the Concern of the Self as a Practice of Freedom”
“We are continually being read; subjectivity becomes an object of interpretation....”
– Juana Maria Rodriguez, Queer Latinidad
“Solidarity has to be constructed out of little pieces, rather than found already...”
– Richard Rorty
“Historians ask you: what is your historical method? You have to apply a...”
– Jacques Rancière (2008) (via chuffedlittlemuffin)
lazz:
Foucault If I have chosen anonymity, it is not, therefore, to criticize this or that individual, which I never do. It’s a way of addressing the potential reader, the only individual here who is of interest to me, more directly: “Since you don’t know who I am, you will be more inclined to find out why I say what you read; just allow yourself to say, quite simply, it’s true, it’s false. I...
“‘Slavery’ is a tendency of labour towards subjective, bodily and...”
– Neferti Tadiar, Fantasy-Production
“Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs,...”
– Roland Barthes, semiotician A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (via tender) (via notational)
“Moreover, nothing entitles us to assume that man has a nature of essence in the...”
– Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
“[W]hen we talk about lying, and especially about lying among acting men, let us...”
– Hannah Arendt, “Lying in Politics” in Crises of the Republic (1972) (via beingforthings)
“Think about the strangeness of today’s situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via newleft) (via unburyingthelead)
“I needed him much more than he needed me.”
– Gilles Deleuze on Michel Foucault, Negotiations, p. 83
Awww I think that’s sweet.
(via chuffedlittlemuffin)
“[P]erformance makes history go sometimes by making it seem to go away, by...”
– Della Pollock, “Making History Go,” Exceptional Spaces: Essays in Performance and History
“Truth can be understood as a process, a dialectic, less a recovery of something...”
– Page DuBois, Torture and Truth
“Everything from Iraq to Wall Street to urban policy to the drug war. I look at...”
– David Simon
“the hollowness at the core of American will”
(via unburyingthelead)
I'd fuck Lacan's mother.
minou:
faithandbegorrah:
minou:
Kill Derrida’s father, and then take Foucault’s sister to Iowa and make an honest woman out of her.
OH MY GOD YOU PLAY THIS WITH THEORISTS TOO???
OKAY OKAY: Bhabha, Spivak, Said. Go!
F/M/K: Spivak, Said, Bhabha.
Now: Benjamin, Adorno, Lukacs. Go!
Now that takes Fuck Yeah Theorists to another level. FWIW, I’d go with Benjamin on the last one,...
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers...”
– Marcel Proust (via lapetitebaobab)
Watchcurate:
Artist/Scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones interviews Artist/Scholar E. Patrick Johnson. E. Patrick is author of Sweet Tea Black Gay Men of the South.
The Theatrical Presentation of Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, Written and Performance by E. Patrick Johnson Directed by Daniel Alexander Jones PREMIERES May 7 – 30, 2010. Viaduct Theatre 3111 N. Western Avenue. Chicago, IL ...
“What we have to do is not be frightened of the word ‘class’. I think there is a...”
– David Harvey (via newleft) (via jhnbrssndn) (via unburyingthelead)
“To be haunted and to write from that location, to take on the condition of what...”
– Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
“In its function, the power to punish is not essentially different from that of...”
– Michel Foucault (via prunelle) (via notational)
“Performance’s only life is in the present. Performance cannot be saved,...”
– Peggy Phelan. “The ontology of performance: representation without reproduction” in Unmarked: The Politics of Performance
“A mood is not a sustained orientation toward the world, but an affective...”
– Lauren Berlant: You sowed a baby and you reaped a bomb. « … … . Supervalent Thought
(via chuffedlittlemuffin)
chuffedlittlemuffin:
A 19-year-old Gayatri Chakravorty (Spivak) is on this cover of the April 22, 1963, issue of Newsweek about exchange students at Cornell. In the article, she says:
Why must Americans smile at people they haven’t met? Still I like my fellow students. We have our common traumas.
“What grief displays… is that thrall in which our relations with others...”
– Judith Butler, Precarious Life
[via wordsandsteel]
““When I teach about racism the first thing I say to my students is that racism...”
– Robin D.G. Kelley (via curate) (via kithandkoko)
Fugitive Dreams of Diaspora: Conversations with... →
bonesarecoralmade:
To write Lose Your Mother I had to imperil myself and make myself vulnerable to critiques from poststructuralists, Africanists, and historians. The nature of the archive, and/or the absence of captive Africans as subjects in the discourse of slavery, and the absence that haunts the physical spaces of confinement made writing the book seem impossible. How does one write about...
chuffedlittlemuffin:
bonesarecoralmade:
okay so now there is a fuckyeahtheorists i think i’ll start an ‘at first i didn’t understand, then i did and it was anticlimactic theory’ tumblr.
DO IT!
I would contribute.
how meta.
