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kathy wash 2012

Responsive Textabation #3
OBJECT [gender specificity] is to BECOME as SUBJECT [the biological] is to BORN.

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academic textabation, identity, Judith Butler, mundane ramblings, phenomenology

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

“…there is also a more radical use of the doctrine of constitution that takes the social agent as object rather than the subject of constitutive act…When Simone de Beauvoir claims, ‘one is not born, but, rather becomes woman.’” – Judith...

agent as object. yes, I can only think and act under the influence

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academic textabation, Judith Butler, mundane ramblings, Roland Barthe

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kathy wash 2012

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Judith Butler when discussing the doctrine of constitution, makes a distillation from phenomenological (“more radical”) viewpoint that “takes the social agent as an object rather than the subject of constitutive acts.” The notion of me as an object vs the...

that simply cannot be right! there is no match made in heaven that would every place me with PLATO. Dang it all.

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academic textabation, blah blah blah, mundane ramblings

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kathy wash 2012

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OMG. I ran a language style matching comparison between my blog post titled without unruly regret and chapter 10 of PLATO’s Republic. I intended to use the results as a silly set up for a philosophy paper I am preparing...

blah blah blah….thoughts while reading between centuries, between classes

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academic textabation, blah blah blah, mundane ramblings

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

I may in fact be learning more within the temporal and disciplinary tweenness rather than in any one course. The course content dances together oddly and reasonably creating something more fair than foul. Griselda Pollock in Agency and the Avant...

Responsive textabation #2
Theory to practice; practice to theory; it’s messy

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academic textabation, mundane ramblings, phd ponderings

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kathy wash 2012

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original blog, response to texts

2.1 She, Griselda Pollock, lost me at… …I have to work out to WHAT I shall be referring if I use the word Van Gogh. Griselda Pollock, “Avant-Gardes and Parisians Reviewed” (pg 319) How she intends for this statement to...

textual + physical influences. if i were to pick again tomorrow, the list would shift about a bit. at the moment of writing this is what i called to mind.

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academic textabation, mundane ramblings

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kathy wash 2012

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Five nonfiction texts (scholarly sort of) – In order of exposure 1. Debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle. New York: Zone Books, 1995. Encountered – 2005 I read this while drifting maplessly afoot through Paris’ historic district in a...

A responsive textabation #1
Author as object. Author writing under the influence [cultural, historical, social, etc]

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academic textabation, Author, Roland Barthe, Sally Macarthur, TT course work

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kathy wash 2012

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I’ve a need to re-enter my blogging practice. In this case I shall simply dump a responsive reading assignment. The task at hand was to pull a quote from the text, explain how it functioned in the author’s argument and...

Sold. On to the next adventure!

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Soulful puppy making the transition from dog heaven freely chasing rabbits, deer, cows and horses to the life of leashed leisure out in Lubbock. She will adjust (I hope). Goodbye my sweet, sweet hermitage, microforest and minimeadow!0

Up, down, sold (ok, well, under serious contract)

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I I suppose it is just bragging, butttt my realtor first showed the hermitage at 11 am, by one I had a viable offer, by three a contract was being drafted up. Bam! I feel fabulously giddy (til I think...

The hermitage, officially listed for sale

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kathy wash 2012

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Contact Markham Realtors to see the hermitage and microforest. The listing0

Last add to the hermitage

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Originally there was a view blocking picket rail between the two levels. I ripped the eye sore out within the first five days of owning. When I bought it I always had this idea in mind, shelving in the dead...

the hermitage draws close to being market ready and my floors are rocking!

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admittedly i’ve been showing her anyway because the micro forest and mini meadow and she built deck can sell themselves…the finishing of all the reno projects on the hermitage just make her totally smittenable. one more layer to be laid...

hermitage flooring coming along

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hermitage, plywood floors, spacers

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kathy wash 2012

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pro floor finisher comes next week as i have finished with cutting, fitting and securing the floors in the bedrooms, den, living, dining and stairwell. yay. I cut and laid 8″ planks in the bedrooms which contrasted nicely from the adjoining...

hermitage, microforest, minimeadow going on the market

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I have loved on this space I call home, I call gift. But I will be going to do my PhD in Lubbock and don’t know where I will land at its end so the hermitage in the woods must...

if I avoid the unsightly, the inappropriate, that negates the bulk of my living and leaves me straining in falsetto. damn the unseemly.

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hermitage, hormonal humor, mundane ramble, poems which aren't really poems just thinkings

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I get stuck. the only way i know to unstick is to approach the very moment in which i reside. so i do. i drag myself down the aisle. pulling one more box from the shelf, the smallest yet, i...

memory is often far too big
not actual size and most certainly not to scale

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stripped loveseat. who knew i could learn so much from its undoing. i did extend back new legs reassembly wing back ottoman. plus Home Depot rubbermaid lawnchair for full sized humans as a measure of scale. oh yes. it is...

rarely do i purge but my big ass art footprint makes it necessary why isketch at full size, i don’t know

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art, process, purge

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kathy wash 2012

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my life has never been a straight path and I’ve never backtracked vocationally–jr high science teacher, youth minister, graphic designer, director of communications, interactive media instructor, art foundations professor. no back tracking. surprisingly each has built on what came before....

new adventure that will require proofing and capitalization. dang

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hermitage, mundane ramblings, phd ponderings, Texas Tech

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kathy wash 2012

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my intent to which they’ve agreed is to drive my bum, belongings, and my big ass art footprint out to the dust driven plains of academia in lubbock, tx to pursue my Fine Art Ph.D. in Critical Studies and Artistic...

upcoming outdoor exhibition

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art, exhibition, public art

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kathy wash 2012

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Color Up/Color DOWN Art Installations Opening March 15, 5-7pm Russ Pitman Park – 7112 Newcastle, Bellaire How does an artist respond to the theme: COLOR UP/COLOR DOWN, within the context of a nature conservancy? Now a sixth year tradition, this...

without residual unruly regret.

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hermitage, mundane ramblings, phd ponderings

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kathy wash 2012

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at the periphery of perception, i extend my hand gropingly feeling for my dreams of future casting. i must have them, mustn’t i? i facilitate workshops in which i guide the group into the gaps of peripheral space in hopes...

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