Clueless-fashion

[poesizing]

intro to lit theory

Authorship: Barthes, Death of the Author; Foucault, What is an Author?

Formalism: Eichenbaum, The Theory of the “Formal Method”;  Brooks, from The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry

Structuralism: Saussure, Course in General Linguistics ; Barthes, from Mythologies

Psychoanalysis: Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams; Lacan, The Mirror Stage & The Significance of the Phallus

Ideology: Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses; Foucault, Truth and Power

Feminism & Queer: Sedgwick, from Between Men; Cixous, The Laugh of the Medusa; Wittig, One Is Not Born a Woman; Butler, Gender Trouble

Deconstruction: Derrida, from Of Grammatology;

Postcolonial: Fanon, from The Wretched of the Earth; Spivak, Can the Subaltern Speak?

Cultural Materialism: Adorno & Horkheimer, The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception; Williams, Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory  

these are about 2/3 of the readings for my intro to lit theory course, if you’ve ever wondered what one studies on such courses, the links lead to free pdfs  

[reality-detective]

💡 What Electric Companies don’t want you to know. 🤔

[feistygrl-deactivated20250705]

She will also make time for him

[theglobalelite]

Stay #healthy folks…

[i-sparkling-star]

[snoopymania]

[missreverie78]

[neshamama]

excerpt of letter from janis joplin nov 11, 1965

[neshamama]

context was she wrote this to an abusive boyfriend (fiancé actually) who lied to her about everything so to exploit her. he never told her his real name, his job, his whereabouts, or that he was married, had children, and numerous lovers (who pretended to be relatives when she called or visited). with janis he suffered violent paranoid delusions and kept guns stashed everywhere. it’s unclear if he physically harmed her, but she was never safe. still, she planned her future around him, had engagement photos taken, told everyone. she’s write him about flatware she liked in the catalogs for their home together. and after she had finally gotten professional help, she realized he was a fraud, a violent and cruel liar, and she had to let go. of him and of the stable, happy life she thought she’d have. this was part of a final correspondence.

the betrayal and deception, abuse and loss didn’t escape janis’s letters. she never spoke about her engagement or fiancé, especially not publicly. i don’t think people appreciate the work janis put into her health in order to escape and overcome situations like this. i think her death obscures the strength she earned, and all the surviving she did always.

as a female musician she does not get her due intellectually either. janis emulated the men of the rock industry (“one night stand”) to have a foot in the door. and she played it tough as a protective shell (“turtle blues”). but she wrote like a poet, she skipped years in school, played several instruments, painted and sculpted; she had enormous self-awareness, she was a bookworm and amateur scholar of music and art history, especially that of blues and folk in american music; as a teen she dug through libraries and university archives for rare books and records. janis was special...for reasons im convinced we still don’t see. the free spirited attitude and hedonistic lifestyle that became her brand grew from a woman who feared desperately, who had lost control over her body by men many times in her youth, who was gay and hid the reality of her soul and mind because such vulnerability could destroy her, and she wanted the success she thought she deserved. this is why janis was a blues woman swept into rock, but i know that was a thin layer of who she was.

make janis an academic subject of feminist, lgbt, and historical studies, as well as a figure we may learn lots bout survival and power and the negotiations of the self and the inhospitable world in which we live. nuff “27 club” and death.

[kushandwizdom]

I’m literally seeing the same man who has a history of psychologically abusing and beating on Black women delve into the BLM movement with some “Protect Black Women” shit on this site and it’s just crazy.

[blue--folder]

When your husband finds your hairbrush…

[googlemenot-deactivated20230921]

Go to Amazon Alexa App. Click on settings. Click on Amazon Sidewalk. Hit the blue button to disable.

[luisonte]

Eeenga padentro otra vez

[iglovequotes]

https://iglovequotes.net/

[naivan]

[curiositasmundi]

Do you want to experience the apocalypse?

[deepestcalzonetree]

That’s frightening

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean]

…it is…just in 3,5 mins…😰 Tsunami in Japan 2011 ?

[talkstothemoonandstars]

It is shocking to me that the notes/comments are full of “Is this real?”, “What caused this?”, “Where is this?”

‘This’, is the 2011 tsunami on the main island of Japan that occurred as a result of a 9.1-magnitude earthquake, 45 miles off the coast. Almost 20,000 people died, and it caused the meltdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant. It was the fourth-largest earthquake ever recorded. The force of the quake altered the Earth’s rotation by 6 ½ inches. It moved Japan more than 13 feet closer to the United States.

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean]

…thank you for the details…🙏🏻

Can’t believe that 10 years have past..

…It was a horrible catastrophe..😔

[she-volution-deactivated2022052]

Another one to google on the subject of women being seen as reproductive resources is “Magdalene Laundries” or “mother and baby homes” in Ireland. Women who got pregnant out of wedlock (often because they were raped by a family member or the local priest) were imprisoned (often taken in the middle of the night) in “laundries” where they were used as slave labour, often worked to death, died in childbirth due to being refused medical treatment, or outright murdered.

Once their babies were born they were stolen from them and sold to rich Americans who wanted to adopt. The sickly babies who couldn’t be sold were murdered. Recently there was a septic tank full off 9000 dead babies that was found in Tuam in Ireland. The last Mother and Baby Home didn’t close until the 90s - this is recent history.

The Catholic Church has never faced any consequences for this, and many of the people in charge at these institutions are alive to this day. Many women who suffered through this are still alive and have never received any justice or compensation.

This happened to Irish women. And this is on top of countless abuses Irish women have suffered with regard to their reproductive rights in recent years and throughout history (Ireland has a very dark history with regard to forced pregnancy and our abortion laws, for example. There are a number of famous cases you can google there too). It’s absolutely not just WOC who are treated this way and it upsets me when Americans claim that white women cannot have possibly suffered this way, because it’s such a slap in the face to every woman who was killed or left crippled, or who spent years searching for a stolen child. It’s indicative of Americans having an incredibly limited worldview - they genuinely don’t understand that a world exists outside of the US, and that it’s different from their race relations there.

OMFG, i googled it up, this gave me chills, the torment these women have endured, i-

From the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922 until 1996, at least 10,000 (see below) girls and women were imprisoned, forced to carry out unpaid labour and subjected to severe psychological and physical maltreatment in Ireland’s Magdalene Institutions. These were carceral, punitive institutions that ran, commercial and for-profit businesses primarily laundries and needlework. After 1922, the Magdalene Laundries were operated by four religious orders (The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, the Sisters of Charity, and the Good Shepherd Sisters) in ten different locations around Ireland (click here for a map). The last Magdalene Laundry ceased operating on 25th October, 1996. The women and girls who suffered in the Magdalene Laundries included those who were perceived to be ‘promiscuous’, unmarried mothers, the daughters of unmarried mothers, those who were considered a burden on their families or the State, those who had been sexually abused, or had grown up in the care of the Church and State. Confined for decades on end – and isolated from their families and society at large – many of these women became institutionalised over time and therefore became utterly dependent on the relevant convents and unfit to re-enter society unaided. (x)

I’m reading this article (x)(x)(x) and it gives me handmaid’s tale vibes. My heart breaks for these women and girls, some of them were as young as 9 i-

[antiporn-activist]

There’s a movie about it you know.

[ecrituria]

Recommendations on online resources/journals to find literary tidbits or simply browse? Thanks x

These focus mostly on literature, criticism & theory, and philosophy—I could add more but I’m not entirely sure what you’re looking for.

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy- collection of thousands of peer-reviewed articles on a range of philosophical topics

The New Inquiry- online journal of politics, technology, and culture

Los Angeles Review of Books- online journal of literature, politics, and culture

The Times Literary Supplement- online journal of literature, politics, and culture

The Paris Review- online journal of literature and culture

e-flux- online journal of art & criticism

The Point Magazine- online journal of literature, politics, and culture

Derrida’s Margins- catalogue of Derrida’s references and citations in De la grammatologie

Kohl Journal- journal of gender and sexuality focused on MENA (Middle East and North Africa)

The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism- database of theory and criticism articles (I think it’s open-access?)

Boston Review- online journal of politics and culture

Dissent- online journal of politics and culture

Monoskop- a wiki of the arts, media and humanities.

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society- journal specializing in feminist scholarship (I think it’s open-access?)

JSTOR | JSTOR Daily- academic database + some open-access content

North American Review- literary magazine

E·ratio- literary magazine

Wildness- literary magazine

[saintjoan]

I was wondering where can I learn more trivia and basically be smarter in general

Welcome to your one stop shop of knowledge, aka Reddit threads:

What is the greatest real-life plot twist in all of history?

What are people slowly starting to forget?

What is a simple question with a complex answer?

Who *should* be running for President?

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What free things online should everyone take advantage of?

What’s a job that most people wouldn’t know actually exists?

What “good advice” do you think is actually bad advice?

What’s a statistically proven fact that nobody wants to hear?

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What are some interesting tests you can take to find out about yourself?

PhD’s of Reddit. What is a dumbed down summary of your thesis?

What is the most underrated website on the internet?

What is the funniest event in history?

Most misrepresented figures in human history?

Who is your favorite unsung hero of history?

What’s your favorite obscure history fact?

What was the most interesting war tactic ever performed in history?

What are some weird, real life X-files type mysteries?