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Comment on Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning? by blog de psicologia

blog de psicologia — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:26:27 +0000

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Comment on Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning? by Mandy Berry

Mandy Berry — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:06:19 +0000

I love this so much. It makes me think many things, but I don’t want to make it more (which would make it less) because it’s so perfect (so generative without being binding) as it is.

Comment on Affect Theory Roundtable Questions, MLA 2012 Authors: Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, Jonathan Flatley, Neville Hoad, Heather Love, José E. Muñoz, Tavia Nyong’o by Occupying Gender in the Singular Plural « Bully Bloggers

Occupying Gender in the Singular Plural « Bully Bloggers — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:11:53 +0000

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Comment on Affect Theory Roundtable Questions, MLA 2012 Authors: Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, Jonathan Flatley, Neville Hoad, Heather Love, José E. Muñoz, Tavia Nyong’o by Rebecca Gordon

Rebecca Gordon — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:24:08 +0000

It was a marvelous roundtable; thank you so much for posting the notes!

Comment on Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning? by Mara Fortes

Mara Fortes — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 00:46:11 +0000

I love your post! When I read it, I was researching TAT (projective psychological test in the genre of Rorschach)
In Thematic Apprehension Test, a subject is instructed to interpret a picture: describe the depicted scene, what lead up to the scene, what will develop from the scene, and the thoughts and feelings of the depicted characters. Presumably, it is instrumental in diagnosing schizophrenia, personality disorders. . .
I came across an example of a response by a young schizophrenic patient who “failed” to produce an adequately realistic narrative explanation, and in response to the question of what the characters were feeling, he said :”they feel as if they are a picture.”
Anyway, this impasse made me think of the impasse in your post, and inadequate forms of realism . .

Comment on Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning? by mirandamellis@gmail.com

mirandamellis@gmail.com — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 20:00:41 +0000

What frustrates me every time I am in a scenario like this where I think the parenting is bad and there is no way or hardly any way to intervene, is charged with my hopelessness about how I couldn’t effectively intervene – have an effect on, name, correct – the bad parenting I also got, though one tries (I first wrote tires), lord knows one tries. And then spends one’s adulthood trying to unlearn the strain of trying to correct bad parenting by trying so hard to be a kid that could somehow solicit good parenting from, say, a total addict or narcissist or whatever. Cartoons forever; fuck football.

Comment on Affect Theory Roundtable Questions, MLA 2012 Authors: Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, Jonathan Flatley, Neville Hoad, Heather Love, José E. Muñoz, Tavia Nyong’o by patriciaclough

patriciaclough — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:24:51 +0000

These are really great questions. I will miss being there. Hope it will leave a trace. Patricia

Comment on SENSING PRECARITY (Allison, Stewart, Garcia, Berlant, McLean, Biehl) by eliot fiend

eliot fiend — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:00:29 +0000

dang i have mad appreciation for stewart’s piece and how it weaves together place/regionality and attachment and precarity as shifting and related threads. i like the thinking evident here on the commons–your comment about moving toward “to common” as a verb and also mclean’s mention. as i have been translating a lot of these threads into dance and movement ensemble work, it feels apt to have the beginnings of a connection articulated between dance/movement/proximity of moving bodies, choreographed and yet somehow accidental, and also questions of the general dis/un/ease of this era.
anyhow, thanks much for posting.
- eliot.

Comment on Father, Can’t You See I’m Burning? by Dave Bennett

Dave Bennett — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:18:19 +0000

So one of the things that I find really enticing about your post, is wondering whether this is fiction or non-fiction. In fact one of the problems with even asking the question of fiction/non-fiction is that the story is no less true whether or not it actually occurred.

From this initial reaction of mine comes a second reaction which also wants to ask, even if you were retelling an “actual” event, one that I could have also witnessed, the way it has been retold is implicitly shaped by an ethical dimension of narrational judgment around what the narrator encountered.

I’m not trying to misunderstand the narrator, nor am I implying that this is not a proper ethical framework among frameworks within which to retell the story, but what I’d really like to know is why I am so vexed by the question of fiction or non-fiction? On top of that vexation I’m also intrigued in how my perception of someone telling or retelling this fiction/non-fiction occurrence has implications about the ethical framework that I have in judging the ethical framework of the narrator here.

I’m also troubled by the masculinity of my line of questioning; but, adieu, I’ll leave my commentary there.

Comment on Affect Theory Roundtable Questions, MLA 2012 Authors: Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, Jonathan Flatley, Neville Hoad, Heather Love, José E. Muñoz, Tavia Nyong’o by Holiday consumption : home cooked theory

Holiday consumption : home cooked theory — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 06:14:27 +0000

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