Month: December 2011
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Alive:ness
Alive:ness. We are caught with the strange responsibility of assessing ALIVE:NESS. These people that claim to be all alive/dead/we cannot tell, to what degree do they have real alive:ness in our own lives? Their picture, staring out at us from the annals of the internet, just as alive or just as dead? That one—I know…
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Hetero-Sex?
I recently read the following from a call out for papers from Genesis, the Journal of the Societé Italianadelle Storiche (Italian Society of Women Historians) on Cultures of Sexuality: “The acronym *LGBTQIA* refers to a plurality: lesbians, gay, bi-sex,trans-sex, queer, intersexual, asexual, to which heterosexual should be added, after being dismissed from the normative model…
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Global Citizenship
If we are to herald the word globalization in an economic and information sharing sense, then it cannot be bound to those two fields. It must also require a rethinking about our identity and spirituality, about relationships, love and sex. If we were merely machines, then perhaps globalization could be taken as one dimensionally as…
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Urgent Honest Politicized
“The citizens of the united states are not living on a separate planet!” –Screams an activist in Durban South Africa at the climate change conference. He is screaming with an honesty, with an urgency, that I find generally unparalleled in the art world. When I hear the urgency in the voices of protesters it is…
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Samples Allusions Remixes Appropriations
I picked up a copy of the Fall 2011 Issue of Electronic Beats Magazine today with Björk on the cover. I’m going to say firstly: it’s a great issue–read it! I read it cover to cover. But the issue did help me think more about this question I brought up yesterday about why not more…
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Fuck this good girl shit!
“Mostly when people think about female DJays they expect them to, like, show their tits. We’re not like that. We’re all about the music.” — from an interview I just saw on Italian DeeJay TV. I wish someone would say “We DJ naked because it’s all about the music and not about brand name labels…
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Polyamory 2525
Seven years of polyamory and even when we fight and say ‘should we stop this?’ everytime we arrive back at NO. But I find that we evolve, I evolve, I change my thoughts around the topic. Hopefully I improve. I’m reminded sometimes of the strange language White Americans adopted post Civil Rights Movement when speaking…