Feb 19, 2019
That moment when a support character finds the whumpee unconscious and rushes to their side, hands instantly moving -- one against their cheek to wake them, the other against their neck to take a pulse.
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That moment when a support character finds the whumpee unconscious and rushes to their side, hands instantly moving -- one against their cheek to wake them, the other against their neck to take a pulse.
6x14 | 11x17
Do you like taking pulses/feeling pulses from the wrist? Lately I've been adoring that
Oh yes. I do. It’s a nice subtle spot to just feel all the time.
Welcome to the UK, where we have pulse taking on our coins.
january authors and theorists
walter benjamin levi bryant charles darwin elizabeth grosz eileen joy bruno latour eric santner w.g. sebald
january keywords
natural history ethology surface writing remote sensing receptivity touch, contact, encounter spectral geographies affective intensities ruins
december keywords
observation documentation experiment empathy ethology natural history architecture modernity enmeshment autonomy
preliminary thesis reading list
Affect Theory (slash objects, new materialisms, misc.)
Lauren Berlant, “Affect is the New Trauma”
Mel Chen, selections from Animacies
Elizabeth Grosz, Becoming Undone and Architecture from the Outside
Katie Stewart, Ordinary Affects
Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling
Heather Love, "Safe" and "Close but Not Deep: Literary Ethics and the Descriptive Turn"
Object-Oriented Theory
Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter
Levi Bryant, Democracy of Objects
Eileen Joy, “You are Here: A Manifesto” and “Like Two Autistic Moonbeams entering the Windows of My Asylum”
Latour, The Politics of Nature; We Have Never Been Modern; Reassembling the Social; and “Why Has Critique Run Out of Steam?”
Morton, Hyperobjects and “An Object-Oriented Defense of Poetry”
Trauma/Holocaust/Memory/Mourning
Ann Cvetkovich, An Archive of Feelings
Michael Rothberg, Multidirectional Memory
Marianne Hirsch, The Generation of Postmemory
Ed. David Eng and David Kanzanjian, Loss
Sebald (Primary, Secondary)
W.G. Sebald, After Nature; Austerlitz; Rings of Saturn; The Emigrants
Helen Finch, Sebald’s Bachelors
ed. Lise Patt, Searching for Sebald (see esp. essay on natural history)
J.J. Long, W.G. Sebald: Image, Archive, Modernity
Benjamin/Sebald
Eric Santner, On Creaturely Life: Rilke, Benjamin, Sebald
Beatrice Hanssen, Walter Benjamin’s Other History: Of Stones, Animals, Human Beings, and Angels