[#MeToo] is one part feminist social justice movement–calling the powerful (overwhelmingly men) to account for using sex as a tactic of dominion. And it is one part neoliberal publicity stunt. Why call it neoliberal? Because the accusations are focused through the press primarily on bad individuals, rather than structures of power, and because the mode of accountability is primarily corporate investigation and firing, and banning from the means of publicity (a Netflix contract, a TV appearance). This is not social justice feminism. It is rather a shift from neoliberal carceral feminism (beefing up the criminal justice system to ‘protect’ women), to the privatization of feminism (a reliance on corporate boards to dole out consequences).

Lisa Duggan, “The Full Catastrophe” (via coocoolah)

ein-bleistift-und-radiergummi:

Marianne von Werefkin ‘House with Lantern’ ca.1913.

heavyweightheart:

“There is no doubt that late capitalism certainly articulates many of its injunctions via an appeal to (a certain version of) health. The banning of smoking in public places, the relentless monstering of working class diet on programs like You Are What You Eat, do appear to indicate that we are already in the presence of a paternalism without the Father. It is not that smoking is ‘wrong,’ it is that it will lead to our failing to lead long and enjoyable lives. But there are limits to this emphasis on good health: mental health and intellectual development barely feature at all, for instance. What we see instead is a reductive, hedonic model of health which is all about ‘feeling and looking good.’ To tell people how to lose weight … is acceptable; but to call for any kind of cultural improvement is to be oppressive and elitist.”

— Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism

mothersofmyheart:

“The invalidating environment contributes to emotion dysregulation by failing to teach the child to label and modulate arousal, to tolerate distress, or to trust his or her own emotional responses as valid interpretations of events. It also actively teaches the child to invalidate his or her own experiences by making it necessary for the child to scan the environment for cues about how to act and feel.”

— Marsha M. Linehan, DBT Skills Training Manual, Second Edition, p.8 (via mysocalledborderlinelife)

itchycoil:

“all men are monsters” is just as much of a lie as “you should be fulfilled by relationships with men” I know the former feels true a lot of the time and has more capacity to be true in this world but it’s not

art-blag:

Chiharu Shiota
I Have Never Seen My Death
Performance
1998

lostinpersona:

The dead dance, Takashi Ito (2009)

Abbas Kiarostami – Durga Chew-Bose – Medium

01sentencereviews:

kayal-vizhi:

“Isn’t it remarkable to be quieted by something as routine as the sun rising? That was Kiarostami’s — not gift — but eloquence. How the prosaic, when given time to breathe instead of rushed into action — like chatter between two characters, for instance — can disclose life’s most electric pursuit: connection.
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