May 2013
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Got the position!
Am now a research assistant!
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“It is when history is denied that is is most unmistakably at work.”
– Roland Barthes, Writing Degree Zero (1953)
Earthquake?
Historys history
Ugh, Toronto is such a stunning place once the weather warms up.
Finished interview now bring me all the beer please.
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“Sad people have the gift of time, while the world dizzies everyone else; they...”
– Warsan Shire, Day Twenty One (via the-reluctant-optimist)
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I’m scared shitless about this interview.
work at 6am
then work 1:30-10 x3
goodnight
I have a job interview on Thursday for for a RA position on early Ontario cinema.
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“From that point on: total immunity—one can no longer counter the system in...”
– Jean Baudrillard, “From Domination to Hegemony”, The Agony of Power
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“I do not believe that things will turn out well; but the idea that they...”
– Adorno, Towards a New Manifesto (via mirrorlywe)
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“Jacques Lacan reminds us, that in sex, each individual is to a large extent on...”
– Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love (via heteroglossia)
“Challenging popular memory will not be a matter of replacing it with empirical...”
– Chris Richardson, Defining Suburbs: Representation and Symbolic Violence Just Outside the City (via whosecityisthis)
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April 2013
“What would a physics of queer space-time, rather than a geography of queer...”
– Madelyn Detloff, “Living in ‘Energetic Space’: Jeanette Winterson’s Bodies and Pleasures” (via theagonistes)
(via empathies)
Just had my grad photos taken.
What a profoundly bizarre experience that was.
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Thesis is up on the website.
“What grief displays…is the thrall in which our relations with others hold us, in...”
– Precarious Life, Judith Butler
seems necessary to repost this. so much grief everywhere.
(via mirrortheories)
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The profs bought everyone beer after the last critique yesterday. Was a great time, but also a highly emotional evening. The next few months will probably be a kind of slow decompression.
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Day one of three very long, 8-hour critiques.
Mine is on Friday afternoon.
