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response to texts

Responsive Textabation #4 — The Material World…
OMG YES! Plato, Plato, Plato! Why, oh why, did you not read Bolt and Bennett on the Material Turn?
Oh, yeah you’re dead!

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12 Oct 2014
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Thus, through the colonization of the arts by cultural theory, arts very materiality has disappeared into the textual, the linguistic and the discursive. According to this conception, art is constructed in and through language. There is noting outside of discourse...
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Responsive Textabation #3
OBJECT [gender specificity] is to BECOME as SUBJECT [the biological] is to BORN.

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02 Oct 2014
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“…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...
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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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23 Sep 2014
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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...
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