Karin, this brings to mind Tiziana Terranova’s concept of free labor. After all, those who upload, edit and comment on You Tube clips are willingly giving up their time and labor. The following quotation from an interview with her is very interesting in t ...
As Franco Berardi has put it, it is as if the antagonism between labor and capital has been interiorized as a conflict within the subject – causing feelings of inadequacy, fear, depression, powerlessness, isolation. The unity of the working class as clas ...
Thanks for your post Robert. I want to ask you a question about race in Cameron Mitchell films. In your own comment on myself and Karin's post you surfaced the possible connection between the biogram's interstitiality and Sofia's asianness: ...
Thank you for a warm and very earnest post, Robert! I agree with you that Hedwig is much more interesting if read from a reparative rather than a paranoid angle- and I certainly think that reparation is a theme that is clearly visible in all of Cameron Mi ...
Michael has verbalised many of my thoughts about the biograms in Shortbus. I think it is important to emphasise how the film moves from individual sexuality to a more general sexualisation. Up to the cathartic moment when all the lights go out the main ch ...
Thanks for your comment Robert and your questions. I think that there are several ways in which the characters in Shortbus might be read in the light of Foucault's later work on askesis and turning the self into a work of art since the film is all a ...
Robt, as a brief addendum to my previous response I would say that I had always thought of Foucault's new relational modes, those "unforeseen lines of force" as Deleuzian virtualities but I'm tempted now to think of them as queer biogr ...
Thanks for a very thought-provoking post Kris. I have a couple of questions about Severin who I think is one of the more conflicted characters in Shortbus. I agree with you that she is confonted, in the scene you describe with her "trust fund" ...
Thanks, Kris, for a very interesting post! I too find Severin a fascinating character. I'd like to add an extra fold to Michael's question and ask if you think that Severin's sinthomosexuality (if indeed you agree with the Edelmanesque deno ...
Just a quick question inspired by Karin's mentioning Amelia Jones in the context of the polaroids and your invoking Vivian Sobchack in your very considered response: I was reminded of Amelia Jones' little essay on Tarnation (which was, of course ...
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Free Labor and Affect
Affective Labor (continued)
Racing in the Middle
Transgender Reparation
Membranous Movement
Foucault, Bersani, Manning
From Queer Virtualities to Queer Biograms
Severin's stain
Severin's Self/Image
Tarnation
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