Comments for . . . . . . . Supervalent Thought http://supervalentthought.com On attachment, detaching, and ordinary life. Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:11:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on The Game by The Game (2) | . . . . . . . Supervalent Thought http://supervalentthought.com/2013/04/10/the-game/#comment-7761 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 21:11:00 +0000 https://supervalentthought.wordpress.com/?p=667#comment-7761 [...] The Game [...]

]]> Comment on A Consultation by A Scarlet Tracery http://supervalentthought.com/2013/04/10/a-consultation/#comment-7722 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 12:02:55 +0000 https://supervalentthought.wordpress.com/?p=665#comment-7722 [...] be replaced by genuine happiness; in writing, where they must be subordinated to house style, & the oppressed are “asked to be pleasing, soothing, perky, comic or melodramatic, status-enhancing, and [...]

]]> Comment on SENSING PRECARITY (Allison, Stewart, Garcia, Berlant, McLean, Biehl) by The (Laboring) Elephant in the Room | Alicia Peaker http://supervalentthought.com/sensing-precarity-allison-stewart-garcia-berlant-mclean-biehl/#comment-7598 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 16:17:08 +0000 http://supervalentthought.com/?page_id=590#comment-7598 [...] seems to resonate more with how I feel or experience this relation.  And the various affects of precarity were palpable within the small auditorium of the [...]

]]> Comment on Looking for Mr. (W)Right by JinxNixon http://supervalentthought.com/2008/05/07/looking-for-mr-wright/#comment-7501 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 06:28:19 +0000 http://supervalentthought.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/looking-for-mr-wright/#comment-7501 [...] Berlant, “Looking For Mr. (W)right“  (via [...]

]]> Comment on For example by Prison « A little girl's road to self discovery http://supervalentthought.com/2012/05/16/for-example/#comment-7374 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:55:04 +0000 https://supervalentthought.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-7374 [...] I know that there are in fact others out there that have faced this issue, but it has always bewildered me. How can I judge the very person that has a tattoo yet want the exact same thing? Is that the reason I have still yet to get a tattoo – thinking that society doesn’t affect me when really it has somehow its found a way to plant the seed of doubt in my mind. In saying this are the people who do these ‘rebellious acts’ so to speak stronger than I am? They have the strength to give society the middle finger and do what they please or is it that they simply don’t care? Either option seems to be better than the what I go through. Am I trapped?  [...]

]]> Comment on The Trumping of Politics by In Mitt We Trust: A Love Story | Socialist Agenda Webzine http://supervalentthought.com/2012/09/02/the-trumping-of-politics/#comment-7271 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 19:29:40 +0000 https://supervalentthought.wordpress.com/?p=658#comment-7271 [...] Exceptionalism with a beefed-up military. It means that the presidency should be a corporate position filled by CEOs who manage the United States with godlike business savvy. It means that corporations should [...]

]]> Comment on For example by My Mother Died of Femininity | The Lantern Daily http://supervalentthought.com/2012/05/16/for-example/#comment-7199 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 14:08:46 +0000 https://supervalentthought.wordpress.com/?p=635#comment-7199 [...] There is a really lovely, brief post by Lauren Berlant on Super Valent Thought… about her mother, reflecting on her life and habits as she is passing away. I just pulled the last two paragraphs, but you can read the entire piece here. [...]

]]> Comment on The Trumping of Politics by supervalentthought http://supervalentthought.com/2012/09/02/the-trumping-of-politics/#comment-7021 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:38:19 +0000 https://supervalentthought.wordpress.com/?p=658#comment-7021 Entitlement aesthetics against entitlements.

]]> Comment on The Trumping of Politics by supervalentthought http://supervalentthought.com/2012/09/02/the-trumping-of-politics/#comment-7020 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:36:46 +0000 https://supervalentthought.wordpress.com/?p=658#comment-7020 The last sentence means trying to figure out structures for social relation that don’t reproduce the impasses of fear and aggression that block our genuine desires for a kind of sociality/world. And “us” meant people who are dissatisfied with those impasses, and who want to take on the transformative project of making better images of the good life. Thanks for asking!

]]> Comment on The Trumping of Politics by Angela http://supervalentthought.com/2012/09/02/the-trumping-of-politics/#comment-7014 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:27:58 +0000 https://supervalentthought.wordpress.com/?p=658#comment-7014 Oh, Lauren. I just watched #shitstorm2012, and it reminded me of this post of yours. Romney fires BigBird (and makes Lehrer feel the precariousness), talks them both down (Obama muted by the twist of “your house, your airplane”), and comes across as more entitled than anyone. Entitled by money, that is. Employer prerogative vs the moochers. Dissent elsewhere, a day that exemplified lines of flight, tweeting BigBirds, and ducks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/03/romney-big-bird-statement-firedbigbird_n_1937908.html

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