Goodreads is glitching, so I’m thinking here.

Just finished Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Kept thinking about “the shameful ruin of the human shape” throughout: the paradigm of the body as a cage, seeing “the other” in the mirror, literal disfigurement. Is posthumanism simply a theoretical continuation of gothicity? Very similar to The Horla, with the ( Read more... )

Thoughts.

A shameful ruin of the human shape.

Sci-fi is the new gothic.

You know those black - and-white images where the white in the middle is a vase, but if you concentrate on the black surrounding it, you see two faces? It’s like “the human shape”: it’s a puzzle piece, a “yin and yan”, a bricolage of animal and human. Yet “human” is not a puzzle ( Read more... )

Совершенно невыносимое 12-минутное видео издевательств над животными в российских цирках. Живодеры-дрессировщики и несчастные звери, попавшие в их лапы. Не ходите сами и не водите детей в цирк, если в программе написано "дрессированные животные ( Read more... )

Alisa Troyan

Professor Castricano

ENGL 409A

February 27, 2013

Earthlings ex machina : “witnessing the techno-scientific pathologies of the market”.

Earthlings derives much of its shocking power from the fact that while watching others commit atrocities towards animal kind, the compassionate viewer in fact sees himself. As consumers, or even as ( Read more... )

А 3 не будет.

     We have never been human, especially some of us. I will not point any thumbs, but isn't the distinctive characteristic of humans mimesis? Artefacts? The ability to consciously be a "historical creature" and to create history, unlike salmon who, led by instinct, go up and down the flow of history? Animals make decisions, but they do not produce ( Read more... )

Статью про Золя из десяти страниц читаю уже третий день - наверное, такое хобби уже не лечится. Нет бы фильм посмотреть или город построить, гораздо конструктивнее. Я для того сейчас это пишу, чтобы научиться выворачивать наизнанку свои деконструктивные способности и не стать очередным паразитом на теле литературы. Начнём с повседневной реальности ( Read more... )

... Aside from no victories, the war on language is successful...
Anthro teacher: don't think of it as THE work. THE work is the whole of all the small works in your life.

I presently presenetably present my present to you. The present I would like to present is a presentation. I presently present the presence of present tence is the presenter's presentation of the present. When presented, the present is represented as having a different presence in the presentees versus the presentor's imagination, that is to say, ( Read more... )

Like, where did that go?

Postée à l'origine par troyanchik sur New - pensée! (in ages).
To be wrong is to be right. I'm afraid to write because if you don't write you can't be wrong, but it's better to write and be wrong because if you don't write you can't be right.