underachieving / oversharing
Look, you know I love indulging in all the discourse-about-discourse, where things are always unstable and contingent, and any traffic in words necessarily entails ongoing negotiation over their meanings. This constitutes a whole terrain of struggle, to be sure, and the labour that goes into understanding is a beautiful thing.
It's always an uphill battle against recuperation and cooptation, right? There are just so many avenues along which transgressive or radical ideas are evacuated of their urgency and reduced to empty aesthetics, or to anachronistic dogma, or to neoliberal identity games. S0 I tell myself it’s because
To note that the wEsTeRn DeMoCrAcIeS are nothing close to the “honest brokers” they’ve spent decades trying to portray themselves as isn’t really much of a statement, is it? I mean, it feels like an assault on language itself to play along with that characterization when their actions
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Here’s the deal: I’m Graham. I put together about an hour or so of music, write about it a little bit, maybe sneak in some reading recommendations, and add a few paragraphs of what more properly belongs on a Livejournal (but here we are). I’m thinking about