i see "whiteness" not as a race but as a social construct of power and its hegemonic hold over my body. in so much, that when i speak my mind, i am being told i am wrong because my view is not dominant. does the representation of non-hegemonic body have to fall in line with liberal agendas so we can all be political correct? is that not facism? ( Read more... )

i do not know anything but understand my own instinct

the quest for human truth or: cultural imperialism and socio-economic appropriation in media

“Homeland” and other American dramas set in the region: the tendency to use the signifiers of a culture - clothes, music, street urchins, unfamiliar writing - as a kind of spicy Orientalist soup of otherness. Even in a well-intended drama, if you approach another culture as set decoration, in which the alien appearance matters more than the content ( Read more... )

“The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.” - Stanley Kubrick ( Read more... )

"if you could give one piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be ( Read more... )

"There's two different things. There's personal growth and personal achievement regardless of success or commercial success, and then there's connecting with people and becoming relevant or meaningful to other people, and I mean people outside how your thing is perceived."

Stephen Malkmus

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Our perception is always partial, and it needs to be constantly revised as we cannot align ourselves with fear.

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

On Cassavettes' Faces, In this film there is a difference between Romance and Love. Love is a hard earned process; learning how to accommodate ( Read more... )

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