(Source: blogging-at-your-funeral, via into-distance)
“In such a context, “molecular revolution” could point to a kind of political homeopathy of gender. It’s not a matter of going from woman to man, from man to woman, but of contaminating the molecular bases of the production of sexual difference, with the understanding that these two states of being, male and female, only exist as “biopolitical fictions,” as somatic effects of the technical process of normalization.”
—
Beatriz Preciado
“As a body—and this is the only important thing about being a subject-body, a techno-living system—I’m the platform that makes possible the materialization of political imagination. I am my own guinea pig for an experiment on the effects of intentionally increasing the level of testosterone in the body of a bio-female”
—
Beatriz Preciado
“I think desire isn’t lack, it’s surplus energy — a claustrophobia inside your skin.”— Chris Kraus, I Love Dick (via jacobwren)
(via machinimists)
“The things of the day world then do not in the night become
the source of the. “horror of darkness” because our look cannot
catch them in their “unforeseeable plots”; on the contrary, they
get their fantastic character from this horror. Darkness does not
only modify their contours for vision; it reduces them to undetermined, anonymous being, which sweats in them.”
— Emmanuel Levinas, Existence Without Existents
“Women’s adaptation to the masculine ideal of beauty, even if it is so deeply internalized that women experience it as their own, is already soaked with the blood of self-abandonment and identity loss.”— Valie Export, Aspects of Feminist Actionism
(Source: endsequence)
