Karin Sellberg and Michael O'Rourke
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Naked Tears
Thank you both Zachary and Brendan for your thoughtful comments! I think you're getting to something really interesting in your comparison between "Wrecking Ball" and "We Can't Stop"- the eroto-de/construction of nakedness as ... -
Cruising Miley's Queer Utopias
Great post to get us started Ryan. I am about to jump on a plane and will respond in more depth later. I have been re-reading Cruising Utopia and wondering a couple of things about Miley's horizonal queerness (what could be more delightfully tautolog ... -
Dis-Identification and Re-Identification
First, I'd like to say thanks again to Ryan for setting such an intriguing discussion into motion! I would then like to follow on from some of the points Zach just made- I feel like the 'temporal duplicity' is key here. Miley doesn't r ... -
Miley's Blackness
This is a really great set of questions you are opening up here Ryan around appropriation and disidentification. I think we've reached a point now in queer theoretical discourse where we need to reflect quite seriously on what queer of color critique ... -
Coincidences and other adorables
One of the things which inspired this super queer week on Miley was a series of fertile coincidences (the shared--although perhaps false-- etymological trajectories of queering and twerking, for example) and your post brings up the idea of coincidence and ... -
Failing better
Great post Chris and it carries on from the other conversations we have been having about infantilism, the refusal to grow up, queer childhood etc in response to Ryan and Zachary's curations. Upon watching the Celine Dion video Ryan shared I am think ... -
Un/Over-ripeness
I think you bring up something really important here, Chris- the fact that Miley is simultaneously represented in terms of infantile/unripe and tarnished/overripe female sexuality. As Michael indicates above, it's as though Miley embraces failure (or ... -
Ouroborotics
I'm really taken with the idea of Miley as ouroboros. A google search with those terms revealed this: http://twitchy.com/2013/11/29/do-you-see-it-this-car-seat-reminds-me-of-... and someone has tweeted that they see a "horrifying Miley ouroboros ... -
Paean to Aphrodite
Karin mentions Medusa and Zach can't get the image of that foam hand out of his head. Which reminds me of Aphrodite, the one "born of the foam" as Jean-Luc Nancy reminds us in his gorgeous "Paean to Aphrodite" in Corpus II. " ... -
Re: MC NORMCORE
Homonormcore
Thanks Eva for a provocative post which nicely troubles a lot of what we have been saying about Miley over the course of this week. Not so much Miley: Super Queer as Miley: Super Totally Normal. A couple of questions impose themselves here: is it necessar ...