theory – Little Bristling Soul

Judith Butler from Precarious Life (full text here)

Simone Weil, Gravity & Grace

Anne Carson, Eros, The Bittersweet

Fanny Howe, The Future is Like Magic: A Notebook

Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red

The Female Malady: Women, Madness, and English Culture by Elaine Showalter

No mistake or crime is more horrible to God than those committed by power. Why? Because what is official is impersonal, and being impersonal is the greatest insult that can be paid to a person.

Søren Kierkegaard (qtd. in Jacques Ellul, Anarchy and Christianity)

Simon Critchley, Things Merely Are: Philosophy in the Poetry of Wallace Stevens

bell hooks from All About Love

H. Giacomelli, L’Oiseau (Bird), 1856, ink on paper

Gaston Bachelard, The Poeticsof Space, trans. Maria Jolas (Boston: Beacon Press, 1964)

Louise Bourgeois, Fee Couturiere, ca. 1963, plaster

“’We bring our lares with us’: Bodies and Domiciles in the Sculpture of Louise Bourgeois” by Elyse Speaks

heteroglossia:

I recognize that I love—you—by this: that you leave in me a wound that I do not want to replace. (Jacques Derrida, The Post Card)

But isn’t desire always the same, whether the object is present or absent? Isn’t the object always absent? —This isn’t the same languor: there are two words: Pothos, desire for the absent being, and Himéros, the more burning desire for the present being.

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

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