A friend posts a link to an anti-feminist Tumblr page, in disbelief & frustration with the sentiments expressed there. I guess, unsurprisingly, chaos ensues.
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Wherein we consider #YesAllWomen & the feminism of johnnyonthejob [updated]
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RIP Storify.
Laws of Nituib
The Sorting Hat, the fMRI or EEG. How we define what makes us light up.
Read MoreImage Author: Kabel (with later tweaks by Anythingyouwant), Creative Commons image.
(Tran)script(ural) Excess
Read MoreIn fact, [the] estimate becomes a perfect equality if we add the [...] "excess"...
From Storify...
RIP Storify.
Open Letter...
"It's about how we're talking to each other, on a basic level, in our community. I happen to think that maybe your organization should care about how it's actually doing that."
...or the text of an angry email I just sent off to The Poetry Foundation...
Read MoreHemlocks
a bit after Ed Dorn after Ed Dorn
Read MoreLocked Treasure Room (from Storify)
Accidental Exposure
Effervescence defines...a ]MARKUP POEM[ mashup (from Storify)
A bit of stuff..
I still need to migrate the work that I originally created over at my old Posterous workspace, but, in the meantime I hope you enjoy this piece over at VIDA's amazing HER KIND.
rupta via.
According to the OED, the etymological origin of route is from a Latin phrase has more to do with rupture or breaking that with directing motion, tracking or linkages. Route as the edge of the jigsaw pieces, rather than the sidewalk. I am curious ...
Read Moreˌhərkyəˈlēən,hərˈkyo͞olēən/
Patience has never been a strong suit. (So, too, the spelling--patients, patience. A not-very-helpful mneumonic once given: Nurses must have a lot of ______ when dealing with their ______...) ...
Read Moremagnum mysterium.
How well the Orphics understood the softness of that which separates our hearts from this world.
How they understood fragility and richness.
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The Candle Problem.
'Functional fixedness' is a handle coined by research psychologists to describe the myriad ways in which an individual's cognative patterning of socialized 'uses' of objects limits that person's abilities to re-utilize (or re-see) an object. ...
Read MorePareidolia.
The Janus-face of proximity & distance, beauty & opportunity cost is making itself felt along various avenues right now--work, life, work-life, memory. In a strange & wonderful essay titled "Circles," Ralph Waldo Emerson tells us: "The eye is the ...
Read MoreDerivation || Destination
More & more I find myself attracted to moments in language that seem full of overreaching, slippage, over-ambitious multiple meanings. When words (a word) starts to carry so many meanings, it begins to undo itself. Derivation, for example. The lov...
Read MoreAffination.
1. The process by which raw (cane) sugar is heated, softened & separated into 'mother liquor' and crystals. In order to render 'purified' crystals, the raw mass is combined with a concentrated, heavy syrup while heating & the resulting 'magma' is ...
Read MoreOne is often concerned with reversing a calculation.
Life, lately, has been full of encounters that seem to lead to perspective. The floating horizon, heat waves rolling on asphalt. In optical terms, the relationship between the apparent size of an object and how far it is from you (distance & heigh...
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