“I am writing for the same reason I am making art”
Donald Judd “i write...”1
A frank claim based on direct experience and bolstered by studies that theoretically support the claim
I believe artists, high in real-world creative achievement, have a tendency to implicitly engage writing strategies that facilitate toggling up and down various internal cognitive, affective, and psychopathological risky conditions that contribute to various phases of creative processes, persistence, and provide... Read More0
Joan Didion — “Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind there would have been no reason to write.”
identity management: countering the burden of stigma [Erving Goffman + Sally Mann]
MicroReading Response to Goffman’s text Stigma via the countering of the stigma of bad mother CONCEPT: Erving Goffman suggests that there are common cues that we become temporally and situationally dependent on that allow us to anticipatorily size up individuals as recognizably human or... Read More0
I am cog
Autoethnographical Micro Reading Response 04—Adorno, Culture Industry CONCEPT: Adorno claims, “conformity has replaced consciousness” and “what might emerge as a point of resistance to the all-embracing unity of the system is immediately integrated and repressed” (Adorno and Bernstein, 1991, p 9)... Read More0
Resistance must always be articulated from within discourse. – Judith Butler
you might be a nerd when
you know you are in grad school and should be because you get totally stoked about a course’s reading list and at least half of them were on your reading bucket list. BAM 0
