A Cloying Coquette with Cleavage and a Cleaver is a Clever Crowdbuster. Continue reading →| Σ Frame
i spent the last weekend of summer mostly under the sun, and submerged in water. i've been itching to swim again, despite autumn approaching. one day in particular, sunday, while swimming in the shallow end of my friend's apartment pool, i thought a lot out loud about the distinction between being desired and being wanted, and how i got there.| my varnished soapbox
Protestant Christianity in America consists of a veritable alphabet soup of denominations, so saying that I grew up in the OPC probably means nothing to you. If it does, lol wow I’m sorry and I probably know you. What if I also told you that my Christian high school| Samsara Diagnostics
Lessons in writing characters from three very different adventures.| The Dododecahedron
this is all reworked from instagram story posts of each film, using googled images that have comparable widths for uniformity. i'll see how i feel about images in my posts at all. it's different. it'd be cool if i could upload my own sourced images, but i'm making do. i like visuals. and i'll do anything but log such things in letterboxd.| my varnished soapbox
I hadn’t heard of Norwegian author Torborg Nedreaas until Penguin published a rather enticing edition of her novel Nothing Grows by Moonlight this year and I decided to make it my first book …| Radhika's Reading Retreat
The Ten Ox-Herding Pictures mirror something of the Hero’s Journey, but they also include a bit more Lacanian honesty than Campbell’s popular monomyth.| Samsara Diagnostics
Are we raising our young people to throw themselves up against the storms which rage at the highest altitudes of our civilization? How will these seedlings become strong pines?| Samsara Diagnostics
The writers discuss threads that bind their debuts, crafting character, and the possibility of the Devil feeling shame| Electric Literature
Today is November 6th, the day I was brought to the adoption agency to be adopted, the day the adoption agency recorded as my birthday, and the day I celebrated as my birthday for 25 years. It is … Continue reading →| Leaving Evidence
Signatures have been exchanged, and the deal is done. Most significantly for me at this stage, the deadline has been set. In January 2012, all being well, I will hand over my third novel. I began work in earnest this week, and welcomed back a familiar feeling of giddiness and discomfort – the usual combination […] The post Only 90,000 words to go… first appeared on Sara Foster.| Sara Foster
Which came first, the Chick or the Egg?| Σ Frame
My Twisted World is not a manifesto, it is a bildungsroman.| mcrumps blog
Last night a U.S. airstrike killed General Qassim Suleimani, the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, responsible for extraterritorial military and clandestine operations. A literal political assassination of a state military target, the attack is an unprecedented escalation of hostilities against Iran. In the aftermath of the event the U.S. mainstream media, the major newspapers and … Continue reading Iran War Notes→| mcrumps blog
I theorize about the incels, but how can one treat them?| mcrumps blog
From the Crumplar-Žižek correspondence.| mcrumps blog
It should go without saying that this sort of truth—about a collective—is well outside the range of psychoanalysis. The truth of these observations are so mundane as to be banal.| mcrumps blog
Liking is the pleasure you experience from something. The source of that pleasure is the liking—or Here and Now—neurochemicals released in your brain: serotonin, oxytocin, endorphins and other endogenous opioids, and endocannabinoids. The same pleasure-generating areas in the brain are activated for all pleasures, from gustatory and sensual to musical, artistic, and altruistic. Life’s intense […]| Farther to Go!
“All Things Are Too Small” declares the title, borrowed from a 13th-century Dutch mystic, of the new collection of essays by Becca Rothfeld, one of the most prolific and versatile critics working today. The claim initially confused me. Too small? Casting a weary glance at the way we live now — visual excess blaring from […] The post Reimagining Excess first appeared on The Smart Set.| The Smart Set
Have you heard the story of the extinction of the Great Auk? We know exactly when their species was eradicated from the face of the earth.| Samsara Diagnostics
Like a radioactive substance, Love is leaking into the world from the porous walls of the Church, leaving everything irreparably changed.| Samsara Diagnostics
In the article Scapegoating in American Beauty Eric Buys reflects on the role mimetic desire plays in the life of Frank Fitts. Fitts, a closeted colonel in the United States Marine Corps desires acceptance and recognition which he feels is not possible if he is openly gay. Yearning to express who he truly is, he […] The post Scapegoating in American Beauty – by Eric Buys appeared first on Mimetic Theory.| Mimetic Theory
How does male dominance shape desire? This question has always informed feminism. Yet the focus has been on sexual desire. Are there other considerations? And if so, how do they intersect with each other? Last year, I wrote an essay for The Philosopher’s Summer issue, which explores the entangled relationship between desire and patriarchal thought.... Continue Reading The post Keyword: Desire first appeared on Feminism and Social Criticism by Minna Salami.| Feminism and Social Criticism by Minna Salami
In her essay ‘Should Artists Shop or Stop Shopping’, writer Sheila Heti describes one of her shopping lists: “a spiralizer, running shoes, vitamins, books, a pregnancy test, white t-shirts…| c4 journal
