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A Teaching (II)
1. I have been teaching this term two courses that I meant to be identical but at different levels of intensity and abstraction, but my intentions (I typed intensions, which is more correct, since my...
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After Eve, in honor of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
On February 25, 2010, a small symposium gathered at Duke University to honor Eve Sedgwick. There were four formal speakers—me, Tyler Curtain, Maurice Wallace, and Robyn Wiegman—and then many other...
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Under My Thumb (Passivity 3)
You find yourself untethered. Your lover/children have just left and you’re alone. Your pet/partner has died. School is over. You’re on vacation. You’re wandering around streets, a mall, your flat....
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Contact
Remember the time I told you about the day I took a vacation from work during which time I watched a movie I needed to watch for work about a man who was taking an extended vacation from work as a way...
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In the Air (1)
The fantasy of a common sense, a sense of a capacity or of something affectively general at the core of democracy, is not necessarily sentimental. But the drive to create a more capacious democratic...
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Being Alive
Contact. I just saw the most anorexic woman I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot. She was walking in 90 degree heat in full Gaga: white face, red lip, yellow blonde streaks all beautifully blown out...
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The Whole Ethic of Sleepless Evidence
#2 in the series. I spent most of the summer reading the kind of fierce poetry that moves fearlessly into barely inhabitable breathing space three beats beyond the object that was supposed to anchor...
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Affect Theory Roundtable Questions, MLA 2012 Authors: Lauren Berlant, Ann...
These are our questions for the MLA roundtable. Section one takes up genealogies of affect theory; section two takes up the problem of affect in the historical present; section three takes up a...
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For example
I noticed, over the last few months, as my mother was dying, that I had taken pictures that seemed very specific. Now I am looking at the archive, as one looks at a drying hand after a manicure. My...
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The Book of Love is sad and boring, no one can lift the damn thing . . .
Delaminated from week 1 lecture notes, Love Theory (Winter 2012)… I am a love theorist. I sometimes feel dissociated from all my loves. I sometimes ask them to hold more of an image of me than I can...
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The Game (3)
3. What is the wish of the dream? I open my hand and a small cluster of people peer up at me out of it silent and bug-eyed. I draw them out of my palm like taffy, but there is no snapping sound and no...
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The Game (4)
4. Contact Sheet It is only evidence that she has been somewhere at the same time that her camera’s been there. There’s a pig in a doorway, a street, a man from behind. The places seem akimbo, as...
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The Game (7)
The Hundreds: Method 2x The game is a form of life coming into being, extension, and activity, the blinking open at the start of the day and the beyond to anything that was explained. If I run out of...
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This Week in Shakes (more Hundreds)
My friend Martha Howard asked me to post my experiment with shakes. I might post others. There’s a lot of variety, as you can already see from the last few posts. ***** This Week in Shakes Monday The...
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In the Air (1)
The fantasy of a common sense, a sense of a capacity or of something affectively general at the core of democracy, is not necessarily sentimental. But the drive to create a more capacious democratic...
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Being Alive
Contact. I just saw the most anorexic woman I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot. She was walking in 90 degree heat in full Gaga: white face, red lip, yellow blonde streaks all beautifully blown out...
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The Whole Ethic of Sleepless Evidence
#2 in the series. I spent most of the summer reading the kind of fierce poetry that moves fearlessly into barely inhabitable breathing space three beats beyond the object that was supposed to anchor...
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For example
I noticed, over the last few months, as my mother was dying, that I had taken pictures that seemed very specific. Now I am looking at the archive, as one appraises a drying hand after a manicure. My...
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The Book of Love is long and boring, no one can lift the damn thing . . .
Delaminated from week 1 lecture notes, Love Theory (Winter 2012)… I am a love theorist. I sometimes feel dissociated from all my loves. I sometimes ask them to hold more of an image of me than I can...
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The Game (3)
3. What is the wish of the dream? I open my hand and a small cluster of people peer up at me out of it silent and bug-eyed. I draw them out of my palm like taffy, but there is no snapping sound and no...
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