Archive for the ‘gender’ Category
The post was partially inspired by Sarah Marshall‘s piece Beyond Clarice at the Hairpin. I’ve mentioned several times that I have the fantasy of retreating to a cabin somewhere, watching an egregious amount of horror films (though I wonder how many one has to watch as I’ve already seen around 200), and writing a book […]
Filed under: art, Copjec, fantasy, feminism, film, gender, politics, television, trauma | 1 Comment
Tags: Beyond the Black Rainbow, feminist horror, gore, halloween, horror films, horror movies, the descent, the love ones, valerie leon
A few weeks ago there were some strange convergences – reading Nick Land’s comments on violent feminism, Deleuze and Guattari’s becoming-girl (celebrated by Cederstrom and Fleming at the end of their Dead Man Working) and most recently Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young Girl. Suddenly there were all these concurrences of the […]
Filed under: Deleuze, feminism, gender, politics | 3 Comments
Tags: becoming girl, haraway, Irigaray, Julian Assange, metroid, nick land, Nina Power, Paranorman, radical feminism, Sadie Plant, Samus Aran, wikileaks, witchcraft
Short Review: Dead Man Working
Carl Cederstrom and Peter Fleming’s Dead Man Working (Zer0) is an interesting account of living and working in a dead world. It diagnoses several affective elements of the managerial co-option of life. Cederstrom and Fleming argue that life in a society dominated by capitalist realism becomes one in which the divide between life and work […]
Filed under: Deleuze, gender, politics, queer theory, Zizek | 2 Comments
Tags: becoming girl, becoming woman, cederstrom, fire starter, fleming, franco berardi, the shining, Zer0 books
Searching for Sadie Plant
Over at the blog for the upcoming nonhuman turn conference Rebekah Sheldon has a post on nonhuman thought entitled “Affect, Epistemology, and the Nonhuman Turn” which is interesting for several reasons. For one, it questions the issue of the status of human thinking in the nonhuman turn especially the assumption that thought is given access […]
Filed under: Deleuze, feminism, gender, Speculative Realism | 3 Comments
Tags: ccru, epistemology, Grosz, Sadie Plant
Alas, Gender…pt. 2
If sexual difference has been relegated to symbolic functions, and to speech in particular, how is the masculine to survive, as exceptional in the above formulation, without simply resorting to a flaccid internalization as it seems to have done in the figure of the dumb husband? To connect this to the cultural (and to a […]
Filed under: Butler, Copjec, feminism, gender, Lacan, television | Leave a Comment
Tags: feminism, madmen, madonna/whore, politics, sarah palin
Alas, Gender…pt. 1
Rachel and I have found ourselves consistently confused by the unavoidable coupling of the dumb husband and nagging wife found throughout the television-scape. Our consensus is that post-sexual revolution, men and women found themselves in a situation where masculinity has become infantalized and femininity has become powerful only in stereotypical mother roles and thus men […]
Filed under: feminism, gender, history, Lacan, politics, television | Leave a Comment
Tags: dumb husband, eliot spitzer, feminism, infidelity, masculinity, nagging wife, realdoll
The Manufacturing of Desire
/1/ – The dollhouse’s plasticities If one was not already aware of the peculiar cultural curiosity of Realdolls, then the film Lars and the Real Girl will certainly bring the odd creations to light. The dolls, which are carefully crafted companions made by molding silicone over a flexible metal skeleton, cost around six thousand dollars […]
Filed under: gender, Hegel, Lacan, psychoanalysis, Zizek | 3 Comments
Trauma’s transmogrifications
/1/ – The commons of trauma The panoply of images after shocking events, whether wildly national/global, such as September 11th, Hurricane Katrina, or somewhat more localized, as in the case of school shootings and abuse scandals, invariably contains the image of the traumatized victim par excellance, the woman with her reddened face buried in her […]
Filed under: film, gender, politics, queer theory, trauma | 3 Comments
The Porosity of the Signifier
/1/ – The Surreal and the Pornographic At the risk of crassness, couldn’t we say that the link between Clowes, Lynch and the pornographic is that of the hole? Isn’t the very dynamic of pornography the interplay between penetration and its limit? Isn’t the pornographic image par excellence that of the completely penetrated woman who, […]
Filed under: comic books/graphic novels, film, gender, Zizek | 2 Comments
