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My Weekly Frustration-Week 15: Afrofuturistic Effective Affect Machines
This week we were to read Steven Shaviro’s, “Post-Cinematic Affect: On Grace Jones, Boarding Gate, and Southland Tales,” though we primarily focused on Shaviro’s discussion of Grace Jones in her music video ‘Corporate Cannibal’. What I took from this read … Continue reading
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Tagged Affect, Afrofuturism, Black Queer Feminism, Corporate Cannibal, effective affect, Electric Lady, Erykah Badu, Feminism, Feminist Theory, Grace Jones, Homework, Janelle Monae, Many Moons, Music Videos, MWF, Philosophy, Q.U.E.E.N, revolution, Steven Shaviro, Writing
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My Weekly Frustration- Week 14 Affect Aliens & Directed Writing: It’s Okay, We’re All [Feminists] Here, Right?
Affective Pushback in the Land of the Free. Affect Aliens don’t need the social pacifiers of happiness and success; ideals construed within our disparate power relations then codified through subjection. * * * No, Affect Aliens don’t … Continue reading
My Weekly Frustration- Week 12: Listener Discretion Advised.
This week we continued our discusion of sound, though we focused more specifically on the gendering of sound. This might be a far stretch from what we actually read, but the readings started me thinking about the gendering of particular queer … Continue reading
My Weekly Frustration- Week 11: (Trying) to Understand Culture & Theory Through Sound, and Vice Versa.
This week we explored the concept of sound within black culture and black feminism. The piece I found most intriguing was Weheliye’s, “Outro,” from his book, Phonographies: Grooves in Sonic Afro-Modernity. It initially seemed like, within these eleven pages was EVERYTHING … Continue reading
My Weekly Frustration: Week 9- Cyborg No More: We. Are. Artisans.
This week, we explored the issue of technology within the bigger ‘New Materialism’ subject heading. We were to read Wilk’s, “Where Looks Don’t Matter and Only the Best Writers Get Laid,” and Gill-Peterson’s blog post, “We are Not Cyborg Subjects, … Continue reading
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Tagged #MCM, Body Artisan, Buck Angel, Cyborg-Body Freedom, Elvia Wilk, Feminist Philosophy, Gender issues, I am an artisan, Julien Gill-Peterson, ManCrushMonday, MWF, New Materialism, Not Cyborg, Philosophy, Reading Response, Second Wave Feminism, Technology, Trans Embodiment, Writing
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My Weekly Frustration: Week 8, New Materialism- “Discourse is Not a Synonym For Language…”
After last week’s (not so) Spring Break, we are back and on a new subject entitled, New Materialism. Generally, this topic is one that is challenging feminism’s linguistic turn. What I find it demanding of us is to recognize HOW … Continue reading
My Weekly Frustration: Week 7, The Last Week of Discussion on Neoliberalism
I will begin by saying wow, what a powerful ending to our exploration of neoliberalism! We were assigned the introduction and chapters 4-5 of Jared Sexton’s, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Sexton is a pretty awesome speaker, check out … Continue reading
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Tagged Amalgamation Schemes, antiblackness, Audre Lorde poem, averageness, Black Queer Feminism, Critical Thinking, Feminist Philosophy, Homework, interracial, Jared Sexton, multiracialism, MWF, Neoliberalism, non-black, philosophy of race, questions, Racism, Radical Black feminism, Sex, sexual politics, sexual racism, White Supremacy, Whiteness, Writing
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My Weekly Frustration: Week 6. Yeah Right, I’ll DEFINITELY Keep THIS One Brief…
My mind went ALL OVER the place during these readings, and I am finding it hard to separate them in my head, which is creating general difficulty in doing so in this medium. I’ll give it a shot: _Jasbir Puar_ … Continue reading
My Weekly Frustration: That Time I Was Able to Express a Little Rage in a Classroom Setting.
Cheers to Black History Month, and to ALL of the struggle involved in its creation and continued preservation! With that in mind, I find this reflective post to be quite relevant to the current Black (and more general marginalized people … Continue reading
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Tagged #solidarityisforwhitewomen, assessment, bell hooks, Black feminism, Black History Month, Class, Critical Race Theory, Critical thought, dig deep, Discourse, engage, Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Identity Politics, Implicit bias, Maria Lugones, MWF, My weekly Frustration, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, philosophy of race, power dynamic, presentation, project, rage, reading, reflection, rellent, social construction, Status Quo, The Struggle, thinking, Writing
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