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Itās hard to recognize that your whole being, your soul doesnāt move at the speed of your cognition⦠That it could take you a year to really know something that you intellectually believe in a second⦠how not to feel ashamed of the amount of time things take, or the recalcitrance of emotional or personal change.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (via dearwassily)
writing a post-doc application on how we can methodologically and theoretically re-do/re-think the way we marginalize womenās art histories and contributions with the way we archive their work.Ā
also crying.
It is as though desire were a law of disturbance unto itself to which the subject must submit to become a subject of her own unbecoming.
Lauren Berlant

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Ā Little Girl at MoMA With Calder Mobile, c. 1950s. Alfred Statler
Desire
Desire describes a state of attachment to something or someone, and the cloud of possibility that is generated by the gap between an objectās specificity and the needs and promises projected onto it. This gap produces a number of further convolutions. Desire visits you as an impact from the outside, and yet, inducing an encounter with your affects, makes you feel as though it comes from within you; this means that your objects are not objective, but things and scenes that you have converted into propping up your world, and so what seems objective and autonomous in them is partly what your desire has created and therefore is a mirage, a shaky anchor. Your style of addressing those objects gives shape to the drama with which they allow you to reencounter yourself.āLauren Berlant
What if we shift the question from āwho do I want to be?ā to the question, āwhat kind of life do I want to live with others?ā? It seems to me that then many of the questions you pose about happiness, but perhaps also about āthe good lifeā ā very ancient yet urgent philosophical questions ā take shape in a new way. If the I who wants this name or seeks to live a certain kind of life is bound up with a āyouā and a ātheyā then we are already involved in a social struggle when we ask how best any of us are to live.
Judith Butler interviewed by Sara Ahmed
(via dirrtmirror)Ā
(viaĀ lazz)
judith butler is my parenting manual.Ā
(sara ahmed is my life manual. iāve spent most of aliceās life regularly re-reading queer phenomenology. new moms and toddlers are natural phenomenologists.)Ā
(via karaj)
I, too, have early on noted that babies are phenomenologists. It has been one of the most exalting processes of parenthood.
Every person I have loved has told me this too.
Tammy Rae Carland Rusty Love from Post Partum Portraits

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I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters (via quotethat)
INTERVIEWER Do you think of yourself as having a relationship with God? CARSON No. But thatās not bad. I think in the last few years, since Iāve been working on Decreation and reading a lot of mystics, especially Simone Weil, Iāve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isnāt. So, sad fact, but get used to it, because nothing else is going to happen. INTERVIEWER Heās not available because he chooses to remove himself or heās not available because he doesnāt exist? CARSON Neither. Heās not available because heās not a being of a kind that would fit into our availability. āNot knowable,āas the mystics would say. And knowing is what a worshiper wants to get from Godāthe sense of being in an exchange of knowledge, knowing and being known. Itās what anybody wants from any relationship of love, and the relationship with God is supposed to be one of love. But I donāt think any kind of knowing is ever going to materialize between humans and gods. INTERVIEWER Is it stymied because of the nature of the beast? CARSON Because of the difference of the two orders. If God were knowable, why would we believe in him?
Anne Carson, The Art of Poetry No. 88 (via objectsource)
epimeleia heautou: care of self
It is clear that in the course of its history the notion becomes broader and its meanings are both multiplied and modified⦠letās say that within this notion of epimeleia heautou we should bear in mind that there is:
First, the theme of a general standpoint, ofĀ a certain way of considering things, of behaving in the world, undertaking actions, and having relations with others. TheĀ epimeleia heautouĀ is an attitude towards the self, others, and the world;
Second,Ā theĀ epimeleia heautouĀ is also a certain form of attention, of looking. Being concerned about oneself implies that we look away from the outside to⦠I was going to say āinside.ā Letās leave to one side this word, which you can well imagine raises a host of problems, and just say that we must convert our looking from the outside, from others and the world, etc, towards āoneself."Ā The care of the self implies a certain way of attending to what we think and what takes place in our thought.The wordĀ epimeleiaĀ is related toĀ meletÄ, which means both exercise and meditation.
Third, the notion ofĀ epimeleiaĀ does not merely designate this general attitude or this form of attention turned on the self.Ā TheĀ epimeleiaĀ also always designates a number of actions exercised on the self by the self, actions by which one takes responsibility for oneself and by which one changes, purifies, transforms, and transfigures oneself.Ā It involves a series of practices, most of which are exercises that will have a very long destiny in the history of Western culture, philosophy, morality, and spirituality. These are, for example, techniques of meditation, of memorization of the past, of examination of conscience, of checking representations which appear in the mind, and so on.
Foucault, The Hermeneutics of the Subject, 10-1; emphasis added.
Marie Howe, āThe Gateā in What the Living Do

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Making an injury visible and public is usually the first step in remedying it, and political change often follows culture, as what was long tolerated is seen to be intolerable, or what was overlooked becomes obvious. Which means that every conflict is in part a battle over the story we tell, or who tells and who is heard.
Rebecca Solnit, fromĀ āHope is an embrace of the unknownā (via 4a0000)
I do this. It would be disingenuous not to proclaim my act, even tho it feels awkward and childish, in a way that reads,Ā āme too! me too!ā because reading the tweet shocked meāa/my seemingly personal act is also āa thingā.
How do you manage to write in gestures that no one else does?
It is completely disarming.