October 2010
The Brown Man's Burden by Henry Labouchère
crossedwires:
Written in 1899 as a response to Kipling’s White Man’s Burden.
[Image is of white men riding on the backs of brown men with the caption, “THE WHITE (?) MAN’S BURDEN.]
Pile on the brown man’s burden To gratify your greed; Go, clear away the “niggers” Who progress would impede; Be very stern, for truly ‘Tis useless to be mild With new-caught, sullen peoples, Half devil and...
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Balikbayan Travel Writing Contest (Schema Magazine... →
As technology advances and the world becomes smaller, we are becoming as a nation, increasingly sophisticated and diverse. In this new global landscape, few understand this international perspective as much asSchema Magazine. As one of Canada’s premiere sources for “ethnic cool,” Schema has been making waves with its coverage of pop culture news, feature interviews, and perspectives that speak...
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“People of color have survived centuries of unspeakable violence against our...”
– I’m Sorry Whiteness, You Can’t have Everything (via thetart)
This is why cultural appropriation is not just a “sharing different cultures.” Yes, when you are privileged and have been given the freedom (and money) to travel and take things from other cultures, it may seem like you are just...
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Towards a Steampunk Without Steam →
Amal El-Mohtar’s wonderful essay on the challenges of multicultural steampunk that has to work not to depend on the usual trappings!
I want to destroy steampunk.
I want to tear it apart and melt it down and recast it. I want to take your bustles and your fob watches and your monocles and grind them to a fine powder, dust some mahogany furniture with it and ask you, is this steampunk? And...
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“… putatively private or personal matters are in fact central to political life;...”
– Lisa Duggan’s critique of gay marriage. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this critique of the fight for gay marriage. I can’t remember where (someone provide links?) but I’ve seen this as an argument against marriage in general - that the structure of monogamy excludes the possibility of choosing...
“LESS ORIENTALISM. MORE GAY KISSIN’”
– You wish you were in on notthemarimba’s & my Sherlock livechats. (via adorianmode)
I do. I do.
“When people feel compelled to comment every time they see an attractive woman...”
– Christina Hendricks to go on a diet (via 3liza)
This Sickness Never Sleeps: to guys with... →
tiaramerchgirl:
jhameia:
nezua:
anygivenremedy:
xdanimalx:
fuck you. fuck you, you shady fucking pieces of shit. nice guys like me basically get shit on because girls have to deal with guys like you. we get lumped in with you sorry assholes, and you make us all look fucking bad. i don’t want to spoil everyone’s fun. but i understand there’s a difference…
love this.
Oh, lord. Another...
This Sickness Never Sleeps: to guys with... →
nezua:
anygivenremedy:
xdanimalx:
fuck you. fuck you, you shady fucking pieces of shit. nice guys like me basically get shit on because girls have to deal with guys like you. we get lumped in with you sorry assholes, and you make us all look fucking bad. i don’t want to spoil everyone’s fun. but i understand there’s a difference…
love this.
Oh, lord. Another Nice Guy who blames his girl...
leonineclaire:
so you want to be a writer: the problem and pleasure of goals
tarts:
Focus on what you learn, not what you produce Writing is something you learn only by doing. Instead of focusing on page numbers, consider the following: I want to learn to imply backstory through my character’s present-day actions. I want to learn to create conflict out of my character’s petty concerns. I want...
I don't wanna do work so you want to ask me some... →
lucaswilliams replied to your post: lucaswilliams replied to…
ahhh shit i’m in the states. i hear getting into Canadian universities is kind of hard but thanks for the recc anyway.
I’m from Malaysia. It really depends on which universities you’re talking about. I applied to York U and Mac; York has to fully fund their int’l students, and they can only take in a certain...
lucaswilliams replied to your post: glitterfitta replied to…
This is EXACTLY what i’m interested in. I’m finishing my undergraduate this year in Sociology/Anthropology. My major is very nu-critical so Derrida, Foucault, and Butler are basically my bread and butter. Where are you doing your MA?
McMaster University, Ontario ^^ The CSCT program here is an off-shoot from the English program,...
glitterfitta replied to your link: Patheogeographics
what are you studying?? i’ve been reading about a lot of this in my spare time recently because all the concepts are super cool
:D I’m doing an MA in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory… stuff tagged CSCT 700 are readings for the core course, since a lot of us don’t have background in Cultural Studies, which covers all these...
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“[Eve] Sedgewick [in her book Touching Feeling, Duke UP 2003] favors the rich...”
– I think this is where we’re getting to the heart of what the Public Feelings concept is about: the recognition and embrace of affect, the emotional dynamic, that drives what we do. It feels like this approach enables us to interrogate why we love the stuff we do, and recognizes the humanity of...
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Patheogeographics →
The project the writer of the article I’m reading has been working on.
How do you carry your pile of political feelings, and how do you want to encourage others to carry theirs?
The term pathogeography is modeled on the Situationists’ psychogeography but substitutes pathos (feeling) for psyche (the soul), emphasizing the emotional investments, temperatures, traumas, pleasures,...
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“Work on affect bears a particularly close relation to work on sexuality and...”
– This is a reference to Foucault’s History of Sexuality. Which I don’t think I completely understood. Returning to this later. (via jhameia)
my attempt: I think what this is saying, which you may have already gotten, is that Foucault says the “scientific” study of sexuality has made sexuality a way...
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msfeasance answered your question:What’s the difference between “affect” and “effect”?
“Affect” can also be a noun, though, referring to the experience or display of emotion.
Thank you! I think this is my missing link.
If “affect” refers to the experience / display of emotion, then what parallel is there to “effect” in this sense? I mean, I...
What's the difference between "affect" and...
Affect = verb
Effect = noun
Affect implies a more dynamic, fluid relationship, as opposed to effect which implies a more linear correlation.
Y/N?
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“Work on affect bears a particularly close relation to work on sexuality and...”
– This is a reference to Foucault’s History of Sexuality. Which I don’t think I completely understood. Returning to this later.
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“… putatively private or personal matters are in fact central to political...”
– Lisa Duggan’s critique of gay marriage. This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this critique of the fight for gay marriage. I can’t remember where (someone provide links?) but I’ve seen this as an argument against marriage in general - that the structure of monogamy...
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“… political identities are implicit within structures of feeling,...”
– - Ann Cvetkovich, pg 461.
Here Cvetkovich is talking about how the Public Feelings project works alongside queer theory. It goes hand-in-hand with the Carl Wilson book, really, about how emotions are repressed to the point that Only Certain Emotions are permissible, and only within certain...
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“This is what I mean by democracy - not a limp open-mindedness, but actively...”
– Carl Wilson, in his closing chapter for Let’s Talk About Love. I just liked the way he put it.
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“It’s not that sentimental art can’t be lousy. Nothing can convince...”
– Carl Wilson, Let’s Talk About Love.
This guy started as a bit of an asshole hatin’ on Celine Dion at the beginning of the book but you can see his process of warming to her. The book’s ostensibly about Celine Dion and why people hate her, but it’s also a critique of how we...
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The difference between Immortality and Eternity
So remember when I was talking about how “oh n0s! the Vita Activa has got Praxis up all over it! It’s no longer as free as it could be!”? In the same vein, there’s a difference between immortality and eternity.
Immortality is “endurance in time, deathless life on earth and in this world as it was given”. Greek gods are immortal. Because they are not mortal like...
“The axiolate of the superluminal bioship coefficient is gafiated in the...”
– Books Karen Healey would be happy never to read again. The whole list is pretty hilarious. 