There was this moment in my Youth Cultures class this morning between the Organ music playing and watching the security guard at the Methadone Clinic; in the midst of religion and addiction we were dealing with “insider research”. Felt like a scene out of a angsty teen novel.
For insiders language becomes a chief key to the taste socialization and mood currents that are prevalent in this group at any moment. For outsiders, including adult observers, language becomes a mysterious opacity, constantly carrying peer-group messages which are full of precisions that remain untranslatable.
—DAVID RIESMAN, The Lonely Crowd.
Not just Charlotte’s Web
Given the recent awareness campaigns about cyber-bullying it seems the connection between virtual acts and real-world effects is a source of widespread paranoia. Even as I’m typing this I have to pause and question the forced distinction between the digital realm of the internet and the physical world. Do you think that we want to emphasize the virtualness of the internet in order to downplay its effects, or are we just acknowledging the nature of the beast?
Anyway.
Blurred Times
So it finally happened. Can’t say I was prepared. They say you can never be fully prepared.
Oh well. What’s done is done.
Despite the shrug-induced lack of interest on my part, the lines were blurred, Ladies and Gentlemen. Mr. Thicke did all the talking and I just sat back, arms crossed, listened and watched…
“That’s it?”
If we’re prioritizing science, with all its classifications/categories/species/specifications, then how are we to overcome THE LABEL?
If fundamentally we need the type to understand the thing then where can we possibly go?
To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.
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Roland Barthes, “The Death of the Author”
I’m anything and nothing. Broaden that horizon of meaning, bud.
Alex Gregory, The Cartoon Bank
You say Porn, I say Star
Porn. Porn. Porn. Pooooorrrrnnnuh. Porn.
Do you think if we say the word enough times the signified act will lose its illicit connotations?
Pornpornporn—
(Source: criminallyinnocent)
Anonymous asked: If someone told you, "Feminism is just women's hatred for men," how would you respond?
I would give them these definitions:
Feminism: Women and Men are Equal
Misogyny: Men are better than Women(or hate,dislike women)
Misandry: Women are better than Men (or hate, dislike men)