When gender is a binary, it’s a battlefield
“When gender is a binary, it’s a battlefield. When you get rid of the binary, gender becomes a playground.” Gender Is a Playground, Kate Bornstein’s Interview, Zackary Drucker.
View ArticleNostalgia has no cure
“Whereas homesickness might be alleviated by returning home, nostalgia has no cure simply because one is typically nostalgic for a time other than the present. Until the invention of time reversal,...
View ArticleLife is work
“In our post-Fordist society, there is little demarcation between life and work. Life is work.” The Hours Have Lost Their Clock, Grafton Tanner.
View ArticleGender is a scaled economy
“Gender is a scaled economy: it is a mode of regulation, management, and control. … We have the right to deny our use and, through this, close the wounds created by a world fed on binary rhetoric.”...
View ArticleTo rob ourselves
“Every time we elect to have the form autofill the next time around, we participate in an act of naming, the process of identifying ourselves within highly networked social and cultural algorithms. We...
View ArticleResponding to the world as if it were cinema
I wonder if this is why I love walking without a destination. “The flâneur doesn’t walk to get somewhere, but to observe the passing scene; he is a consumer of images, responding to the world as if it...
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The mind struggles to regain its composure
“What is terrible – or sublime – for Kant, in his ‘Analytic of the Sublime’ of 1790, is formlessness. Beauty, so say the Kantian aestheticians, has form. Its objects have definable ‘boundaries’, while...
View ArticleAs soon as something is written
“No one is ever really alone. You are part of everything alive. The difficulty is to convince someone else he is really part of you.” “Anything that can be accomplished chemically can be accomplished...
View ArticleUn espacio confortable
«Lo tome como lo tome, este mundo humano es inhabitable. Cuanto más inhabitable se vuelve, más aumentan las ganas de evadirse en busca de un lugar donde la vida resulte llevadera. Pero te mudes a...
View ArticleY el mundo quedó cortado en dos
«Mientras recorría el andén cerraba de golpe las puertezuelas al pasar. Con cada cierre de puerta se abría el abismo entre los que se van y los que han venido a despedirnos. Finalmente, la puerta...
View Article¿Qué puede haber más estable que la nada?
«Si los cuerpos celestes están cargados de incertidumbre, no queda sino fiarse de la oscuridad, de las regiones desiertas del cielo. ¿Qué puede haber más estable que la nada? Y, sin embargo, tampoco...
View ArticleMorderse la lengua
«En una época y en un país en que todos se despepitan por proclamar opiniones o juicios, el señor Palomar ha adquirido la costumbre de morderse la lengua tres veces antes de hacer cualquier...
View ArticlePantufla desparejada
«De viaje por un país de Oriente, el señor Palomar ha comprado en un bazar un par de pantuflas. De regreso en su casa, trata de calzárselas: se da cuenta de que una pantufla es más ancha que la otra y...
View ArticleImaginary monsters
“I adore imaginary monsters, but I am terrified of real ones.” Open City: A Novel, Teju Cole.
View ArticleObatala
“I got the idea that some of the things I was seeing around me were under the aegis of Obatala, the demiurge charged by Olodumare with the formation of humans from clay. Obatala did well at the task...
View ArticleLooking out across a river on a day of heavy rain
“V.’s depression was partly due to the emotional toll of these studies, which she once described as looking out across a river on a day of heavy rain, so that she couldn’t be sure whether the activity...
View ArticleI don’t really believe in coincidences
“I don’t really believe in coincidences, she said. Something either happens or it doesn’t, coincidence has nothing to do with it.” Open City: A Novel, Teju Cole.
View ArticleQuand il ne se passe rien
«…ce qui passe quand il ne se passe rien.» Tentative d’épuisement d’un lieu parisien, Georges Perec.
View ArticleGente que lee caminando
«Hay gente que lee caminando, hay poca, pero hay». Tentativa de agotar un lugar parisino, Georges Perec.
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