capricorn is independent, ambitious, and successful in her own right. she will make substantial investments into career and education to make the necessary professional and social advances.
this is also a great contradiction and source of confusion for capricorn. they want to achieve all of these feats alone, but with someone there and waiting for her at the finish line. she is a self-sufficient and self-actualised person who has been taking full care of herself since she was quite young, she is now a woman of the times. a woman of time and eras.
for all of her sass and self-reliance, she can be surprisingly swooned by old fashioned romantic gestures, vintage charm with classic romance films, beautiful dresses and doors opened, protection, promise, and always respect,
but most importantly, she wants to be shown that she is someone capable of love and being loved, someone feminine but never underestimated, someone who can stop trying to be dainty and quiet because she fears she is too much.
she already conquered the world so that she could become yours
love her like a queen and she will give you eternity to hold in your hands
“The modern world is one of simulacra. Man did not survive God, nor did the identity of the subject survive that of substance. All identities are only simulated, produced as an optical “effect” by the more profound game of difference and repetition […] Underneath the self which acts are little selves which contemplate and which render possible both the action and the active subject. We speak of ‘self’ only in virtue of these thousands of little witnesses which contemplate within us: it is always a third party who says ‘me’.”
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Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
“biological sex is a social construct” doesn’t mean “chromosomes, anatomy, hormones, and genitalia don’t exist”. it means “these exist, but assigning roles, labels, and expectations to certain combinations of these characteristics is a social construct, and an unnecessary and pointless (actually harmful) one at that”.
The project of making a chair is a way of saying, I’m not satisfied. Fuck this world, even the chairs aren’t any good. I want to make mine…why does it have to work? The world as it’s been supplied to me is not sufficient, not satisfactory, faulty. So as a person, as an expression of autonomy, it would be necessary to actually recreate all the objects around you. Everything. Fuck this table, it’s not ok. And to me that’s an essentially physical act. I just get pissed at certain objects and need to destroy them.
– Oscar Tuazon
The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn’t look for harmony but would simply live in it.
– Andrei Tarkovsky
Faked Out — Real Life
Kakutani misses how poststructural and postmodern thought has long been a response to science’s unwarranted claims of neutrality and objectivity. Yes, sometimes this work really is just a set of stylistic whims and nihilistic postures or arguments for full epistemic relativism. But the core of much of what was popular and is still taught — Foucault, Haraway, Harding, Latour, and so on — uses empirical evidence to show that objectivity is never as such. These theorists show how accepted notions of truth are deeply rooted in cultural contingencies, and that interrogating these notions helps better articulate reality than accepting false objectivism with blind faith. This work was not “post-truth,” but rather called for smaller, more local truths instead of absolute or universal claims made from a posture of neutrality.
When Kakutani declares that “it was ridiculous … to argue that a researcher’s cultural background could affect verifiable scientific facts,” she is ignoring the work of social constructionists who have demonstrated how reality is created through practice rather than something simply given beforehand. What Kakutani calls “academia’s embrace of postmodernism” could more accurately be described as “some in academia became convinced that objectivity is claimed where it can’t be and that causes social problems.”
“How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand?”
— Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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