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The Aesthetic Politics of Affect The fact that affects whatever they are, are “new” is a point raised by every author of the volume. Sara Ahmed characterizes a basic element of affectivity as being “more and less open to new things” (32); Lauren Berlant writes of a “new atmosphere of new objects” (106); Ben Highmore…
Fredric Jameson after the postmodern Awesome…
Busan Film Festival line-up: films by female directors to open and close BIFF Taiwanese actress/filmmaker Sylvia Chang will also be in attendance for the world premiere of her film Love Education, which portrays three women from three different eras in Chinese history.
That’s why people take vacations. Not to relax or find excitement or see new places. To escape the death that exists in routine things. Don DeLillo, White Noise (via quotespile) Here here. (via lotusgurl)
Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse We were warned about spiders, and the occasional famine.We drove downtown to see our neighbors. None of them were home.We nestled in yards the municipality had created,reminisced about other, different places—but were they? Hadn’t we known it all before? …
Flarf is Life: The Poetry of Affect Conceptual poetry is an umbrella term for a spectrum of writing practices, and the name is sometimes so vaguely applied that it could include virtually all of literary modernism and its descendants. A useful starting definition of conceptual poetry comes from the name: the idea is up front…