becoming-affective

“The question is not: is it true? But: does it work? What new thoughts does it make it possible to think? What new emotions does it make it possible to feel? What new sensations and perceptions does it open in the body?” — Massumi, 1987, p. xv

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Precious: "Are You Pregnant, Again?"

Is Precious an "at-risk girl" according to Anita Harris's book, Future Girl?

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Juno: I Think It's Best To Tell Them

Does this clip from the film Juno show a "can-do" girl?

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Movies on the topic of precarity

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The law is reason unaffected by desire.

Aristotle

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And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

Kurt Vonnegut

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A handful of young American directors are making clear-eyed movies for hard times.

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After the good life, an impasse (Berlant, Chapter 6)

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"Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?"

- Andy Warhol

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Wearing Me: A Tale of T-Shirts

I bet you own a t-shirt. Depending on your various beliefs and their translations into your shopping tendencies, it comes from one of a few places.

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Washington Square Park 

June 21, 2014

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Vito Acconci, 1970

“Biting as much of my body as I can reach: turning on myself, turning in on myself: performance as locomotion across a boundary: connections across a region: absorption by one organization, of a neighboring organization: self-absorption”

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. . . . . . . Supervalent Thought

On attachment, detaching, and ordinary life.

Lauren Berlant's Blog

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Killer / Assassin, curated by Maya Pindyck

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Lauren Berlant and Jordan Greenwald

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Obesity & Cruel Optimism

BBC's Thinking Allowed

(forward to 13:40 to hear Berlant)

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Depressive Realism: An Interview with Lauren Berlant