Post-Feminist Theory exam time (at Fields Art Center)
charting the flux of identity
as part of a gender studies capstone project
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“Assemblages do not privilege bodies as human, nor as residing within a human/animal binary. Along with a de-exceptionalizing of human bodies, multiple forms of matter can be bodies - bodies of water, cities, institutions, and so on. Matter is an actor.”
— Jasbir Puar, “I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess”
“…experimentation on ourself, is our only identity, our single chance for all the combinations that inhabit us.”
— Gilles Deleuze, “Dialogues” (via basedrhizome)
(Source: lovevoltaireusapart, via swellshark)
“To think how objects are ‘occupied’ we can begin by considering how we are busy ‘with’ them. Whether we ‘take’ up different objects depends on how we are already occupied and on the kind of work that we do. We say that we occupy space; that we have an occupation. We are occupied with objects, which present themselves as tools to extend the ‘reach’ of our actions. We are occupied when we are busy. We are booked up: we are using up time when we are occupied with something. We might be preoccupied with something, which means we don’t notice something else. The word ‘occupy’ allows us to link the question of inhabiting or residing within space; to work, or even to having an identity through work (an occupation); to time (to be occupied with); to holding something; and to taking possession of something as a thing.”
—
Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology
happy finals, all! stay occupied!
MISSING: ONE PILLOW PERSON.
last seen in Watzek Library.
we miss our einstein-wigged humanoid. :(
FOUND!
l-h-poetry asked: Isn't it strange how some people, when given the freedom to affect a body, want to possess it? I don't mean that to sound malicious, it's just really interesting how someone understood that they had the freedom to change the person-pillow's physicality, and their exertion of that freedom was taking it into their possession.
I suppose that’s the way a lot of our sense of space and sense of self is developed, through the wants and desires of others (to varying degrees).
It also goes along with the invisibility of work as presented by Ahmed. whoever took the figure probably never saw the amount of time and effort put into making it. it was just an object.
A new figure has been installed on the third floor of Watzek library. Come leave your mark!
“While we might worry, for example, about the globalization of the term queer, we deflect from the much graver problem of the generalization and assumed transparency of the term sexuality itself - a taken for granted category of the modernist imperialist project, not only an imposed epistemological frame, but also ontologically presumptuous - or, in fact, an epistemological capture of an ontologically irreducible becoming.”
— Jasbir Puar, “I Would Rather Be a Cyborg than a Goddess”
“A paradox of the footprint emerges. Lines are both created by being followed and are followed by being created. The lines that direct us, as lines of thought as well as lines of motion, are in this way performative: they depend on the repetition of norms and conventions, of routes and paths taken, but they are also created as an effect of this repetition.”
— Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology
