In The Clush

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[theclushlife]

[theclushlife]

Nightmare I

You were born a shadow, a specter, a conjured thing. You open your crusted eyes to find you're on a table, hooded. The veil traps the moisture of your now rapid breathing. Your own rancid breath jolts your up. You pull the veil to from your head and your entrails poor from a gapping incision in your abdomen. Your gut splatters onto the ground with a wet, viscous slap, pulling you forcefully with it. I can’t breath, I can’t breath. You struggle to get the words out as you vomit your longs. The viscera clogs your nose and threat as you heave your insides onto the floor with the rest of you. Emptied, you recline back onto the table. You take a moment to taste the blood and innards on your lips. You look down onto your chest cavernous chest and wonder how it is you’re still alive. 

[theclushlife]

[left-reminders]

Labor theory of value

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Work

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[everydaysocialtheory]

As silent witnesses, ‘haunted’ sites bring back to life ghosts of the people, places and events that together form our biographies.“

Kusenbach, "The Go-Along as an Ethnographic Tool”

[everydaysocialtheory]

New publication- Trayvon Revisited: Race, Fear, and Affect in the Death of Trayvon Martin. Out digitally on Sociological Forum in October and in print in December

[everydaysocialtheory]

Coffee-stained and acid touched; some poems die before they’re written, swallowed by stomachs haunted by hunger- like uttering your piece will lead to starvation. Other times it’s because our bodies know something we don’t and they lie there in anticipation

(via everydaysocialtheory)

[4eltaromeo]

1- Inequalities have been crafted, they’re human inventions not products of human nature. Inequalities are not timeless, they have specific origins which means they do not have to exist forever. There is always something that can be done. Systems of injustice seek to control your ability to imagine otherwise. Imagination is the first step to radical change. 2- Keep learning; your exposure and experience couldn’t possibly teach you everything. It’s on you to keep pushing, keep reading, and keep questioning. 3- Write yourself a rifle. Find or create the language to write yourself into existence. Others need to know that they matter, that they’re not paranoid or overly sensitive, that what has happened to them hasn’t gone unnoticed. People need to know that love, intimacy, friendship, and camaraderie do exist across difference. Resistance to injustice has never been silent.   4- Be willing to get things wrong and call your own fouls. Be open to getting checked on your ignorance as this is a labor of love. 5- Inequalities and injustices are killing abstractions that alienate us from ourselves and each other. They are forces that call on us to deny the single, most fundamental truth of human existence: we need each other. We are always and forever implicated in each other’s lives. We need to act to reaffirm that basic human bond. 6- History always matters. Progress is not justice; progress calls for a linear conception of time and defers justice endlessly into the future. Justice calls on us to reckon with our histories–collective and individual–of violence. Until we reckon with history nothing will change.

Provisional Maxims for Concerted Justice (via 4eltaromeo)

[everydaysocialtheory]

The writing tries not only to accept the risk of sprouting deviant, but also to invite it. Take joy in your digressions. Because that is where the unexpected arises. That is the experimental aspect. If you know where you will end up when you begin, nothing has happened in the meantime. You have to be willing to surprise yourself writing things you didn’t think you thought. Letting examples burgeon requires using inattention as a writing tool. You have to let yourself get caught up in the flow of your writing that it ceases at moments to be recognizable as your own. This means you have to be prepared for failure. For with inattention comes risk: of silliness or even outbreaks of stupidity. But perhaps in order to write experimentally, you have to be willing to ‘affirm’ even your own stupidity. Embracing one’s own stupidity is not the prevailing academic posture.

Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual (via everydaysocialtheory)

[everydaysocialtheory]

Is it so unreasonable to ask that we focus more clearly on variability and pay less attention to gender conformity? The problem with gender, as we now have it, is the violence - both real and metaphorical - we do by generalizing. No woman or man fits the universal gender stereotype.

Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body (via everydaysocialtheory)

[everydaysocialtheory]

As we grow and develop, we literally, not just “discursively” (that is, through language and cultural practices), construct our bodies, incorporating experience into our very flesh. To understand this claim, we must erode the distinctions between the physical and the social body.

Anne Fausto-Sterling, Sexing the Body (via everydaysocialtheory)

[everydaysocialtheory]

If men are from Mars and women are from Venus, then gay men are from Pluto and lesbians are from the land of hobbits and blue avatars. Or men will be men, gay men will be kinda like men but pinker, and lesbians will be an enigma wrapped in a mystery. What is completely absent here is any notion of the social.

Suzanna Walters, The Tolerance Trap (via everydaysocialtheory)

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Washington Post writer Marguerite Kelly claims that ‘most scientists think that a person’s sexuality is the work of nature, not nurture; that it is as innate as the color of his eyes and just as immutable. A homosexual can no more be attracted to a member of the opposite sex than he can be attracted to a lamppost.’ Tell that to all the attractive lampposts out there.

Suzanna Walters, The Tolerance Trap (via everydaysocialtheory)

[everydaysocialtheory]

The duality at work here–the centrality of multiculturalism and diversity to the discourse of citizenship, coupled with the surveillance, domestication, quarantine, and containment of the corporealities that attempt to represent these domestic ideals–enables the emergence of liberal multiculturalism not only as a consumptive project nor as a process of inclusion, incorporation, normalization and assimilation, but more pernicious let as a form of governmentality.

Jasbir Puar, The Turban in not a Hat (via everydaysocialtheory)

[everydaysocialtheory]

[History] cannot get away from war, or discover its basic laws or impose limits on it, quite simply because war itself supports this knowledge. Knowledge is never anything more than a weapon in a war, or a tactical deployment within that war. War is waged throughout history, and through the history that tells the history of war. And history, for its part, can never do anything more than interpret the war it is waging or that is being waged through it

Michel Foucault, Society Must be Defended (via everydaysocialtheory)