Ryan Tracy
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Re: MC NORMCORE
Nom Nom, Norm Norm
Welcome, Eva. And hi, everyone. Indeed, embracing Miley will be, at least on some level, to embrace whiteness; to ingest it, and, perhaps, to suffer the abiding aftertaste of white supremacy ideology. I do not doubt that white racism underwrites the possi ... -
Re: MC NORMCORE
Echola-da-di-da-di
Eva, I love your use of "echolocation" here, as it complicates my earlier arguments that there is something, perhaps, inherently queer about doublings. In the sense you use it, the doubling this video performs is a reinforcement that locates the ... -
The White to Be Other
Michael, thanks for jeteeing out this window with me. I think you’re right to be suspicious about whether or not José would have included Miley in his blueprints for a queer utopia. This is precisely why, for me, I wanted to place José’s work at the core ... -
Double Visions
Welcome, Chris! I don’t disagree with any of your points. And I think you sense (maybe identify with?) my urgent desire to rethink “appropriation” as a queer value of duplicity. You are right to stress, however, that it is important to include in this con ... -
Touching, Feeling...Selfing
Thanks Zachary and Karin for joining us. And I look forward to reading more thoughts from everyone this week. José’s formulation of the “not yet here,” if I recall correctly, maintains a direct relation and reference to the past. In this way it promises a ... -
Reading Backwards Forwards
Well said, Michael. And I think yes, any move "back" to the foremothers of queer theory should be self-consciously careful not to reproduce the color-blindness that made early queer theoretical work a right object of critique, or, what we might ... -
A (Back) Door
Michael, I love this. I have not read Jean-Luc Nancy, but it appears from what you’ve posted here that I must get into it asap. Masturbation, historically, has been regarded as an insistence; either one that is dangerous to the self because it emerges as ... -
Hanna Montana Got Tired to be Hanna Montana
In lieu of actually commentary, which I hope to provide tomorrow, I offer this video as an amuse bouche: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu0zRXeGTOQ ... -
Kleiny Cyrus
Sorry for being a bit out of the loop here! Or, perhaps my late entry might demonstrate somewhat how the loop is also an open loop, subject to intrusions, penetrations and transformations. First, to address MOR’s curiosity about Chris’s “befores” and “aft ... -
A Taste for the Elsewhere
Very much enjoying these threads of thought. Zachary brings up an excellent point: “When Miley derives pleasure from herself in this video, does this pleasure stem from her appropriation or from her whiteness? Can we separate the two?” People of color hav ...