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Caravaggio's Secrets by Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit (1998)
#caravaggio#the musicians#the lute player#leo bersani#ulysse dutoit#caravaggio's secrets#art#art detail#art analysis#michelangelo merisi da caravaggio#italian art#baroque art#renaissance art#my edits
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Almost all the media coverage of AIDS has been aimed at the heterosexual groups now minimally at risk, as if the high-risk groups were not part of the audience. And in a sense, as Watney suggests, they’re not. The media targets “an imaginary national family unit which is both white and heterosexual” (p. 43). This doesn’t mean that most TV viewers in Europe and America are *not* white and heterosexual and part of a family. It does, however, mean, as Stuart Hall argues, that representation is very different from reflection: “It implies the active work of selecting and presenting, of structuring and shaping: not merely the transmitting of already-existing meaning, but the more active labour of *making things mean*” (quoted p. 124). TV doesn't make the family, but it makes the family *mean* in a certain way. That is, it makes an exceptionally sharp distinction between the family as a biological unit and as a cultural identity, and it does this by teaching us the attributes and attitudes by which people who thought they were already in a family actually only *begin to qualify* as belonging to a family. The great power of the media, and especially of television, is, as Watney writes, “its capacity to manufacture subjectivity itself” (p. 125), and in so doing to dictate the shape of an identity. The “general public” is at once an ideological construct and a moral prescription. Furthermore, the definition of the family *as an identity* is, inherently, an exclusionary process, and the cultural product has no obligation whatsoever to coincide exactly with its natural referent. Thus the family identity produced on American television is much more likely to include your dog than your homosexual brother or sister.
—Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?” (1987)
#queer theory#queer studies#HIV/AIDS#1980s#reaganism#leo bersani#stuart hall#cultural studies#critical theory#intellectual history
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The Artist And Leo Bersani's Seminal Work "Is The Rectum A Grave" Alternative Title: I cannot believe Bing let me use the word rectum in a prompt
(This is funny because "Is The Rectum a Grave" is an important foundational text for queer theory, and also really upsets people)
#ai art#ai artist#the joys of every day life#gay ai art#gay ai#ai generation#ai generated#gay art#leo bersani
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"Is the rectum a grave" IS an amazing essay though
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The Freudian Body, psychoanalysis and art, Leo Bersani
From this perspective, a psychoanalytic criticism, far from seeking keys to the hidden wishes and anxieties “behind” the text, would be the most resolutely superficial reading of texts. It would trace the continuous disappearing and reappearing of relations and forms, it would not be a question of identifying desires, for the work of art itself exists not in order to hide them, but in order to make them visible.
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重版のための交渉中です。レオ・ベルサーニ ＆ アダム・フィリップス著『親密性』
レオ・ベルサーニ Leo Bersani ＆ アダム・フィリップス Adam Phillips 著
『親密性』 Intimacies
書誌情報 小社オンラインストア参照
在庫を切らしており、ほんとうに申しわけございません。
いまなお、重版のための再契約の交渉を、本書の権利者とのあいだで、ずっと続けております。
合意できて重版が決まりましたら、あらためてご案内させていただきます。
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Since you're responsible for my notes filling with very normal takes about queer sexuality, you need to know that the casual sex post was inspired by a tweet (by a gay man) that said something along the lines of "grindr and hookup culture, as opposed to REAL relationships and connection, represents an individualistic capitalist mindset". Somehow half the qrts were like "but is he wrong tho"
The post in question from @cats2019forthenintendoswitch .
Sorry about the notes. I definitely agreed with you, but I'm popular enough on here that things I reblog can get out of control. The tweet you're referring to does not surprise me at all. Not to be dramatic, but there has been nothing short of an ideological coup among a lot of "radical" "queers" where the middle class assimilationism of their parents' generation is now the radicalism of theirs. "Gays need to settle down and be productive members of normative society" is a take scraped straight from the thinkpieces of gay conservatives like Andrew Sullivan. But "too much fucking makes you a capitalist?" Wow, so brave! Call them out! 😍
I actually agree that Grindr is cynical and individualistic, but only when compared against the robust IRL cruising culture it's replacing. This was just not the will of the free market nor the triumph of normativity, but the engineered policy results of this culture being zoned and policed out of existence. If Grindr was my only exposure to queer sexuality, I'd be cynical too! That's why I don't want to hear any criticism of the apps that does not come with an emphatic defense of the bars and the baths.
Anyway, sorry for the people being annoying on your post. It takes a lot of nerve to act shocked that people are looking for sex on the sex app, and even more nerve to frame one's own naivete as "enlightened."
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to the new followers hello i am waving, the size of a chickpea…. kissaroo from me to you
forgive my laconic misanthropy at times, at times justified paranoia, i hope you enjoy a whirl of like thirty kim kitsuragis in a row sparsely punctuated by others
#inconsequential nonsense#have you ever considered reading is the rectum a grave by leo bersani. i think about it all the time#unquenchable appetite for destruction. is right
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Actually you'll find I can't "show hole" as a hole is that which is defined in its own absence; that is to say, I cannot show hole, but rather only the ass cheek which surrounds it
#This is a shit post but also dangerously close to just quoting the academic work of Leo Bersani#Also I'm so sorry for writing this
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Darieck Scott offers a rich meditation on the relationship between fantasy and reality, and between the imagination and being, as he weaves his personal recollections of his encounters with superhero comics with interpretive readings of figures like the Black Panther and Blade, as well as theorists such as Frantz Fanon, Eve Sedgwick, Leo Bersani, Saidiya Hartman, and Gore Vidal. Keeping It Unreal represents an in-depth theoretical consideration of the intersections of superhero comics, Blackness, and queerness, and draws on a variety of fields of inquiry.
Reading new life into Afrofuturist traditions and fantasy genres, Darieck Scott seeks to rescue the role of fantasy and the fantastic to challenge, revoke, and expand our assumptions about what is normal, real, and markedly human. (NYU Press, 2022)
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hi paris! so i slowly went through your recommended reading and just finished it and i really love a lot of the writings! my favorites were decolonization is not a metaphor and everyone is beautiful and no one is horny. so i wanted to ask: do u have any other recs like those two? kissie kissie
hello!! i'm so glad you enjoyed the list!
here's some further recommendations:
terrorist assemblages by jasbir puar. this is a phenomenal book about the 'other' as it relates to queerness and also racism. it is a it difficult to read, unfortunately, but well worth the cost. she has another book called the right to maim which is about the choice for states to maim instead of kill, and is extremely relevant for the present. (i love jasbir so, so much. her next book is supposed to be about settler colonialism. i cannot wait.)
can the subaltern speak? by gayatri chakravorty spivak. this is the foundation of a lot of current thought (including the decolozation essay you've already read) about how and if the "other" is allowed to speak on its own behalf.
the book is the rectum a grave? by leo bersani is a classic, and does really well beyond its titular essay. the whole book is fantastic. i especially like the essay on monogamy.
tools for convivality by "ivan ilych." it's a collection of thoughts for building towards a future that i find to be rather refreshing altogether, and somewhat interesting as a groundwork to compare around what other people suggest for a better future.
i'll try to think up some more for you! i have pdfs of all of these: shoot me a message and i'll send them over.
bjs!
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The Stuff I Read in June/July 2023
Stuff I Extra Liked is Bold
I forgot to do it last month so you get a double feature
Books
Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha Lee
Heteropessimism (Essay Cluster)
The Biological Mind, Justin Garson (2015) Ch. 5-7
Sacred and Terrible Air, Robert Kurvitz
Wage Labour and Capital, Karl Marx
Short Fiction
Beware the Bite of the Were-Lesbian (zine), H. C. Guinevere
Childhood Homes (and why we hate them) by qrowscant (itch.io)
piele by slugzuki (itch.io)
بچهای که شکل گربه میکشید، لافکادیو هرن
بچه های که یخ نزدند، ماکسیم گورکی
پسرکی در تعقیب تبهکار، ویلیام آیریش
Küçük Kara Balık, Samed Behrengi
Phil Mind
The Hornswoggle Problem, Patricia Churchland, Journal of Consciousness Studies 3.5-6 (1996): 402-408
What is it Like to be a Bat? Thomas Nagel, (https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674594623.c15)
Epiphenomenal Qualia, Frank Jackson, Consciousness and emotion in cognitive science. Routledge, 1998. 197-206
Why You Can’t Make a Computer that Feels Pain, Daniel Dennett, Synthese, vol. 38, no. 3, 1978, pp. 415–56
Where Am I? Daniel Dennett
Can Machines Think? Daniel Dennett
Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons, Derek Parfit (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118922590.ch8)
The Extended Mind, Andy Clark & David Chalmers, Analysis 58, no. 1 (1998): 7–19
Uploading: A Philosophical Analysis, David Chalmers (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118736302.ch6)
If You Upload, Will You Survive? Joseph Corabi & Susan Schneider (https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118736302.ch8)
If You Can’t Make One, You Don’t Know How It Works, Fred Dretske (https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4975.1994.tb00299.x)
Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing
Minds, Brains, and Programs, John Searle (https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X00005756)
What is it Like to Have a Gender Identity? Florence Ashley (https://doi.org/10.1093/mind/fzac071)
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data, Emily M. Bender & Alexander Koller (10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.463)
On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 Emily M. Bender et al. (https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922)
The Great White Robot God, David Golumbia
Superintelligence: The Idea that Eats Smart People, Maciej Ceglowski
Misc. Articles
Ebb and Flow of Azeri and Persian in Iran: A Longitudinal Study in the City of Zanjan, Hamed Zandi (https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110694277-007)
WTF is Happening? An Overview – Watching the World Go Bye, Eliot Jacobson
Using loophole, Seward County seizes millions from motorists without convicting them of crimes, Natalia Alamdari
Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens, Cathy J. Cohen, Feminist Theory Reader. Routledge, 2020. 311-323
Is the Rectum a Grave? Leo Bersani (https://doi.org/10.2307/3397574)
Why Petroleum Did Not Save the Whales, Richard York (https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023117739217)
‘Spider-Verse’ Animation: Four Artists on Making the Sequel, Chris Lee
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution, David T. Ho (https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-00953-x)
Fights, beatings and a birth: Videos smuggled out of L.A. jails reveal violence, neglect, Keri Blakinger
Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek, Gabriel Rockhill
The Tyranny of Structurelessness, Jo Freeman
Domenico Losurdo interviewed about Friedrich Nietzsche
Keeping Some of the Lights On: Redefining Energy Security, Kris De Decker
Gays, Crossdressers, and Emos: Nonormative Masculinities in Militarized Iraq, Achim Rohde
On the Concept of History, Walter Benjamin
Our Technology, Zeyad el Nabolsy
Towards a Historiography of Gundam’s One Year War, Ian Gregory
Imperialism and the Transformation of Values into Prices, Torkil Lauesen & Zak Cope
#reading prog#one day i will be able to read books well again#most of the things that aren't linked i can provide directly upon request#those dennett citations are hard to track down
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“The real problem, to my mind, with the antisocial turn in queer theory as exemplified by the work of Bersani, Edelman, and others has less to do with the meaning of negativity—which, as I am arguing, can be found in an array of political projects, from anticolonialism to punk—and more to do with the excessively small archive that represents queer negativity. On the one hand the gay male archive coincides with the canonical archive, and on the other hand in narrows that archive down to a select group of antisocial queer aesthetes and camp icons and texts. It includes, in no particular order, Tennessee Williams, Virginia Woolf, Bette Midler, Andy Warhol, Henry James, Jean Genet, Broadway musicals, Marcel Proust, Alfred Hitchcock, Oscar Wilde, Jack Smith, Judy Garland, and Kiki and Herb, but it rarely mentions all kinds of other antisocial writers, artists and texts such as Valerie Solanas, Jamaica Kincaid, Patricia Highsmith, Wallace and Gromit, Johnny Rotten, Nicole Eisman, Eileen Myles, June Jordan, Linda Besemer, Hothead Paisan, Finding Nemo, Lesbians on Ecstasy, Deborah Cass, Spongebob, Shulamith Firestone, Marga Gomez, Toni Morrison, and Patti Smith.
Because it sticks to a short list of favored canonical writers, the gay male archive binds itself to a narrow range of affective responses. And so fatigue, ennui, boredom, indifference, ironic distancing, indirectness, arch dismissal, insincerity, and camp make up what Ann Cvetkovich (2003) has called 'an archive of feelings' associated with this form of antisocial theory. But this canon occludes another suite of affectivities associated with another kind of politics and a different form of negativity. In this other archive we can identify, for example, rage, rudeness, anger, spite, impatience, intensity, mania, sincerity, earnestness, over-investment, incivility, brutal honesty, and disappointment. The first archive is a camp archive, a repertoire of formalized and often formulaic responses to the banality of straight culture and the repetitiveness and unimaginativeness of heteronormativity. The second archive, however, is far more in keeping with the undisciplined kinds of responses that Leo Bersani at least seems to associate with sex and queer culture, and it is here that the promise of self-shattering, loss of mastery and meaning, unregulated speech and desire are unloosed. Dyke anger, anticolonial despair, racial rage, counterhegemonic violence, punk pugilism—these are the bleak and angry territories of the antisocial turn; these are the jagged zones within which not only self-shattering (the opposite of narcissism in a way) but other-shattering occurs. If we want to make the antisocial turn n queer theory we must be willing to turn away from the comfort zone of polite exchange in order to embrace a truly political negativity, one that promises, this time, to fail, to make a mess, to fuck shit up, to be loud, unruly, impolite, to breed resentment, to bash back, to speak up and out, to disrupt, assassinate, shock, and annihilate.”
J Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure
#wehavewords#J Halberstam#The Queer Art of Failure#words#quotes#life quotes#life#quotes about life#arts and culture#art quotes#quotes about art#book quotes#queer quotes#queer
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Leo Bersani Freud’s New World
The ego is a collector who transports inert objects from the outside to the inside. Instead of desiring the world, the ego vampirizes it.
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Question: Are you a top or a bottom?
Top: I'm a top.
Side: Let's conceptualize this question with a hermeneutics of power knowledge. We recall Judith Butler's observation that "which pleasures shall live and which shall die is often a matter of which serve the legitimating practices of identify formation that take place within the matrix of gender norms." Gay sex escapes the procreative expectation, but in the reproduction of these norms still adheres to the same performance principal. Under this discursive prison sex can never truly be about mutual pleasure. While some say our pleasure possibilities are hindered, I invert the accusation that yours are limited by an unimaginative phallocentric philistinism.
Vers: A hypocritical invocation of Butler when your argument is based on the presupposition of a prediscursive original desire, a flagrant departure from the Foucauldian tendency which Butler follows, and their further claims on the futility of trying to imagine a queer culture fully independent of heterosexuality. Your critique further ignores the treatment of anal sex as the defining sin of homosexuality and its place within a serophobic signifying economy. I implore you to read Leo Bersani's exploration of the topic, Is The Rectum A Grave.
Bottom: Did I really make it that obvious? Dhdhdjdjfjf
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i am never not thinking about this stunning paragraph from leo bersani’s “sociality and sexuality”
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