Thank you for this post, Eva- and thank you for raising these interesting questions. I wonder if there is a limit to how normative you can be before your normativity becomes other. Miley is indeed doing something that is "totally normal" for peo ...
This is a super post Zachary and carries on wonderfully from some of the discussions unfurling around Ryan's post about appropriation. As I revisited this video over the weekend I was struck by the many similarities between "We Can't Stop&q ...
Thanks Zachary for posting this video- and for your great comments! And thanks Michael- for bringing up 'Spring Breakers'! I immediately thought of it when I re-watched this video too- probably because of the uncanny and unresolved relationship ...
I think the gun/fellatio scene in Spring Breakers is fascinating. On one level the girls are forcing Franco/Alien to suck on his own "shit" but his response (are there even two guns in his mouth at one point?) is to say he could do this every da ...
To speak to Karin's question about Miley's tongue a bit more: in a show in London as part of the Bangerz tour Miley slides in on her own tongue which, to my mind, is a really interesting displacement of the birth canal (when I see it I am remind ...
I was wondering if the question of appetite would come up this week. Clearly Miley, as Ryan and Karin say, has this "voraciousness" and there is no doubt reasons to think that addiction, adoration and appetite are tangled up with one another. Wa ...
I thoroughly agree with Michael's and Ryan's comments- and this is what I was trying to get at in my post above. Miley appears voraciously hungry- for the world, for new identities, new lovers, everything! There is something slightly disturbing ...
I want to bring the discussion back to Lady Gaga for a moment, but I will do so in reference to Elena’s astute comments. I think the concept that Michael mentions and Shane reiterates – the chaos or the ‘gaga’ – is crucial to our discussion here. And I do ...
Adrian concludes his curation by asking: “Can we get by without hope for a beyond to hypercapitalism?”; Coincidentally, Shaviro has published a brand new article called “After Hope” on Mladen Djordjevic's Life and Death of a Porno Gang (2009) which ...
Adrian comments that “it’s worth thinking about the extent, quality, and sustainability of that ‘escape’. The logic of capital can be *resisted* through a variety of escape hatches, liberated spaces, etc., but I don’t think it can actually be *replaced* ...
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