fuck yeah theorists

let's try and unthink what we mean by the term 'theorist.'

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[T]he temporal anomaly within nationalism—veering between nostalgia for the past and the impatient sloughing off of the past—is typically resolved by figuring the contradiction in the representation of time as a natural division of gender. Women are represented as the atavistic and authentic body of national tradition (inert, backward-looking and natural), embodying nationalism’s conservative principle of continuity. Men, by contrast, represent the progressive agent of national modernity (forward-thrusting, potent and historic), embodying nationalism’s progressive, or revolutionary principle of continuity. Nationalism’s anomalous relation to time is thus managed as a natural relation to gender.

- Anne McClintock - Imperial Leather, 1995 (via sexartandpolitics)

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