if youre applying for a transgender writing fellowship do u send them the transgender writing or the good writing

he really hit the ball out of the park with 'this time as farce'

Stuart Hall hitting hard these days

In retrospect the bloody eye was kinda chic and I should bring it back

inspirational that alongside his list of best films fassbinder also lists ‘the least important’ and ‘most disgusting’ films

thought of something annoying to say “a sex is a gender with an army and a navy”

unfortunately TDOV always kinda feels like one of those niche largely online microholidays like Pi Day or May the Fourth Be With You. don’t really think about it or register it until you stumble on to the same trite genres of posts or a cutesy flyer at the library and go ohhh right

Alexander Kluge ist gestern im Alter von 94 Jahren in München verstorben.

Oh man, Alexander Kluge too :(

actually introspection did not exist until i started working on my dissertation... and then this kinda guilt based whammy showed up from europe, a lot of it from vienna

mainly i need a boyfriend for logistical reasons

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

feeling the dearth of foreign press and middle eastern accounts on this website quite intensely rn. twitter sucks so bad but at least there was more of that there, at least back when i was on it

If the idea that video games themselves incited violence was in some sense a moral panic, what is true is that violence increasingly takes on the character of a video game

badly need to visit the heroic soviet scale statue of shakira in barranquilla her hometown

This stuff is so infuriating. As a young person figuring this stuff out not once did someone suggest to me I might be trans. but once I came out as trans people *repeatedly* suggested to me that I might just be a feminine gay boy or nonbinary or something less extreme. as if we were negotiating

fuck this evil country

imagining a Romantasy reader who gets into Updike because they hear he's a sex author and being really disappointed by The Centaur

This is how my acknowledgments are gonna look

Critic who thinks may 1968 was pointless but talks your ear off about the subversive powers of a lubitsch film

I think we’re a bit too keen to talk about “AI literacy” or even “visual literacy,” as if literacy could so easily be mapped across that difference

In My Best Friend’s Wedding Julia Roberts promises to marry her ex if they’re not married by the time they both turn… 28

When your will is thoroughly fagged out

Related to an experience I have all the time as a trans person: a covertly bigoted person launders their discomfort with me by extending sympathy to a real or imagined bigoted third person whose views and feelings they feel we ought to take more seriously. Interpassive bigotry, we might call it

It’s sort of a gross feeling when I read something or watch something and realize the grad student brain thing where I’m trying to find the winning take or angle on it has kicked in without my noticing

We should make “incontinence” mean a spiritual failure of will and self discipline again. Not just like an excrement thing…

Ambivalent feelings about universities lately: an insistent attachment to the humanistic thought everywhere being devastated, tempered by the observation that universities have been the vanguard of abetting and capitulating to contemporary fascism

In a healing period of watching mainstream hollywood comedies from the 90s and early aughts and feeling struck by the joyous visual and narrative functions of aol instant messenger in these films alongside the very real possibility of being publicly embarrassed by your answering machine

I’m in my flop era, my long downturn

Universities should hire therapists who specialize in decathecting from academia, otherwise a lot of hurt and angry people are going to congregate in toxic milieus like centrist op-ed circles

I think about this all the time

We must return to 18c nosology

just gently closed a refrigerator door #antifa

We should ask how higher education embraced using their limited resources to launch centers for the purpose of attacking their own colleagues and students.

it's a simplification but i still like to think that the reading of a novel is a quite developed and complex relationship between two people. if one of them is AI, that's a relationship of some kind. but it doesn't seem especially appealing even if your aim is just to find something to beat off to

'gender is fake': cis take which passes itself off as trans and queer somehow

it's really funny to me that Anne Lawrence lists Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil in the "Further Reading" section about autogynephilia

One of my fav things about fred’s papers were the decontextualized greimas squares

She’s serving

It will take us a while to relearn how to think about photos the way we do words or drawn images -- an expression of opinion rather a document of reality, except, ideally, when credentialed and moderated by some form of intellectual review. but in many ways they were always that

feels bad to do goofy intellectual self indulgence at the end of the world but ya gotta do it while it lasts

Sometimes I am annoyed by the resurgence of interpretive methods which seem to me very vulgar and simple—making bad old homologies between the aesthetic and the economic, etc. but then sometimes there are movies made which are quite simply bribes, alibis to funnel money to the wealthy and powerful