Archive for September, 2008
for some people, it is important that sex be embedded in contexts resonant with meaning, narrative and connectedness with other aspects of life; for other people it is important that they not be; to others it doesn’t really occur that they might be. the epistemology of the closet, p. 25
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Tags: quote, sex
k d lang – quote of the day
i worship this tenacity
and the beautiful struggle we’re in
love will not elude us…
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kari and angel…
inished reading amruta patil’s kari yesterday… utterly moving…
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‘m’
recently started attending classes of a course on ‘cinema and the city’… it is a mphil level optional course for those doing mphil in cinema studies in jnu… my entry point is of course through the city part of the course… we saw the film ‘m’ today… directed by fritz lang… of the german expressionist school… made in 1931… one of the earlier movies on the serial killer theme…
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Tags: borges, cartography, cinema and the city, encyclopedia, excess, fritz lang, m, mapping, modern, urban
wall-ing the sez…
keeping the khiladi number 1-s away from the sez number 1…
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Tags: architecture, gurgaon, khiladi no 1, private/public, sez, space, urban, wall
street worlds…
diagonal splitting of worlds… speed and risks… comfort and safety…
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Tags: safety, space, street, urban
yoni and its discontents…
kyla pasha has very interesting, and i think apt, critique of the ‘south asian’ translation of vagina monologues as yoni ki baat…
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Tags: feminism, kyla pasha, love, site links, space, vagina monologues, yoni ki baat
‘abhav’
‘abhav’ is a category of nyaya and navya nyaya (systems/philosophies of logic) meaning ‘presence of absence’… so if the pot is not in the house, the nyayayika (practitioner of nyaya) will say that the absence of the pot is present in the house…
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cartography – geo/body/temporal
was thinking about cartography and power gained by having dominance over it… and was reminded of this picture i saw in a photo exhibition in my first sem in jnu… late 2006… oct or nov… it was titled ‘exploring masculinities’… up there is that pic…
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Tags: body, cartography, gender, mapping, space
con(fessions/fusions/texts) 