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rax

Life update

Nov 09, 2011 09:11

I am not just a machine that does tasklists, I promise. Of course this post is also a list, but it's not a tasklist, so at least it's something?

School: Is going better, overall, at least for me. I'm excited about my final projects even if they weren't what I initially hoped to be doing, and I'm seeing people on campus I can build alliances with. I' ( Read more... )

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jadia November 9 2011, 17:34:04 UTC

Boston? Did I miss something?

perbac November 10 2011, 05:35:41 UTC

Some people are going to Boston the wrong weekend. :P

rushthatspeaks November 9 2011, 20:07:30 UTC

So the definition of interpellated with which I am familiar is the right of a parliament to question government ministers, i.e. the House of Commons interpellated the Minister of Defense. And then the minister has to justify their policies or risk a vote of no confidence.

... I have this belief that somehow this cannot be the definition which you are using, although I am enjoying the mental image of Congress asking you questions about species self-definition. Help?

rax November 10 2011, 03:55:48 UTC

It's... sort of like that actually? Have you read Althusser? (I'm sorry, it's going to be one of those explanations.) He has this thing where he says that we come into being as subjects because the state interpellates us --- it calls to us, and we turn around, acknowledging that the state was talking about us in the first place. To not do this is terrifying (at least according to Zizek whose name has a diacritic I can't be fucked to find the UTF-8 for right now, sorry Zizek). Butler then works with this and says some additional things, among which are "we get interpellated all of the time and this is part of how things like gender are produced" (in another paper she also connects this to, like, Bordieu and the habitus and also J.L. Austin and Doing Things With Words and either you see where I am going or you can safely ignore this parenthetival). I dig this, but I sort of want to (a) tell the state to fuck off and (b) make the state interpellate me as I want to be interpellated (as, tongue 75% in cheek, a giant talking fox). You can't ( ... )

krinndnz November 10 2011, 18:27:13 UTC

In addition to other things, that explanation was totally helpful to me, so thank you. ♥

zanazibar November 9 2011, 20:56:06 UTC

I'm glad it's going better for you here than for me. I'm still not 100% sure what is it about this place that is fucking me up so much.

kelkyag November 9 2011, 22:04:07 UTC

Getting together with people I am involved with or attracted to almost always results in our producing lots of food. I ... do not know what to make of this?

Sharing food is an important human social ritual. And for at least some of us, feeding our friends and family is a way of expressing concern for and promoting their physical well-being. And some of us bought into the "food is love" meme somewhere along the way ...