psychedelicmirrors

It’s Spring 2023 and this is the Tumblr home for #papermirrors23 at SDSU — Fall ‘21 this was the Tumblr home for English 157, #psychedelicmirrors — Previously, Fall ‘17, this site was the #mirrortext tumblr, an undergraduate English 220 class. Before that, in Fall 2015, this was the Engl 220 Hallucinating Mirrors site.

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poster by dear rory

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Fantagraphics (@fantagraphics) on Threads

Currently reading an early printout of My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two by Emil Ferris ❤️ Out in April, it’s available for pre-order n

Epic book on the horizon ➡️ https://ow.ly/o5Ut50QnWoX

My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Book Two

The most anticipated graphic novel of 2024, concluding the story of young Karen Reyes, the most inspiring "monster" in contemporary fiction.

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from the diaries of Virginia Woolf

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«En cuanto al problema de la ficción, es para mí un problema muy importante; me doy cuenta de que no he escrito más que ficciones. No quiero, sin embargo, decir que esté fuera de la verdad. Me parece que existe la posibilidad de hacer funcionar la verdad en la ficción; de inducir efectos de verdad con un discurso de ficción, y hacer de tal suerte que el discurso de verdad suscite, “fabrique” algo que no existe todavía, es decir “ficcione”. Se “ficciona” historia a partir de una realidad política que la hace verdadera, se “ficciona” una política que no existe todavía a partir de una realidad histórica».

Michel Foucault: Microfísica del poder. Las Ediciones de la Piqueta, pág. 162. Madrid, 1980

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Del México que se fue... Mediados de los 70s

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Francesca Woodman, Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976

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Boundaries by Miles Johnston, 2019

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Ikuko in The Key

In Jun'ichirō Tanizaki’s The Key, readers find themselves facing narrative whiplash at the end when Ikuko reveals she has been manipulating her husband the entire time and exacerbating the conditions that led to his death. She takes over not only the current narrative after her husband can no longer contribute his diary entries, but retroactively becomes the primary narrator/main protagonist for previous entries as well. The metanarrative nature of the diary entries becomes apparent as she admits to wanting to give her story a proper “conclusion, rather than simply drop [it]” (Tanizaki 199). She acknowledges that she is not simply keeping a record of events through her diary, but crafting a narrative around her and her husband’s relationship and sexuality. Ikuko controls the story not only through the way she chooses to write it and reveal certain truths to readers (of which we can never be certain, since she has already admitted to being an unreliable narrator) but through her actions that actively guide the narrative towards a path that best suits her desires even as she pretends to be the manipulated one. By the end of the novel, Ikuko emerges as the heroine in what she ultimately crafts to be her own story, even though it is through grim and sadistic means that she succeeds in orchestrating a life where she can be with Kimura.

R.N.

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nice work! cheers, bill

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Barbara Moura - Fingering Oblivion, 2023

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Artists and Models

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More women watching … 👁👁 https://www.tumblr.com/vintagecameraporrrn/715589966896431104/robert-doisneau-three-decades-of-street

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Robert Doisneau - Three decades of street photography

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Vintage photographs available as fine-art prints or digital stock images