“September” (9/20/21)i

Will you let Christ in today? Take the day one moment at a time, one second at a time. Construct yourself in a positive manner. In what form will you shape your body today? What are your cultural meanings? Will you seize the day? What level will you reach? Reach the top, become the top, be the heavens, accompany God.

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What is metaphysical substance? What does it mean to be powerful? Ego, individual, the person, substantial identity, Belief in language, Cause of thoughts

Your being -•M•e•t•a•p•h•y•s•i•c•s𓏲-

Sex/desire – it is difficult to take seriously Butler’s take on society being overly masculine • Defining the other • Restrictions – understand sex

Desire – oppositional – unity 

stable – conception – express

naturalistic paradigm

some true self – old dream 

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What are your desires telling you to do? Should you let other people decide your desires ∘ [Category of Sex] Sexuality ๋࣭ ˖𓏲˙• regulate 𓃋

Critique ∘ identity ∘ scandal ∘ disorganized ∘ reaffirm ∘ terms ∘ distribute 

• What is the argument? Performative

What about sperm? World of Pleasures 

Attributes • accidental 

Exposes • postulation • regulatory • fiction •

Abiding substances • Gender ontology

Compulsory intelligibility 

Core ∘ Produced • Culturally established 

Deregulated • Subordinate • dissonatE

Expand • Possibilities • coherences  

“•Sept•ember•” (9/20/21)iv

•N•☉•U•N•]Nietzsche’s claim in the Genealogy of Morals : “there is no being behind doing, affecting, becoming; the doer is merely a fiction, added to the deed, the deed is everything.” the deed is everything – Nietzshe 

Radical theory • agency • humanism 

Performative construction within material practice of culture 

Law • Pre social • integrity • monotheistic 

Culturally universal • subversive sexuality

Constant challenge • temporality 

Prohibitions ∘ produced • access to sexuality that is outside, before, or after power itself • Power encompasses both the jurisdictional, prohibitive, and regulatory

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and the productive, inadvertently, regenerative functions of differential relations 

Matrix of Power relations

Uniform repetition of masculist economy of identity – swerve away 

Exceed, expand what is culturally intelligible – Freed from constructs

Sexuality ∘ Pleasure • Fallic • Se𓃌 

Return to biology • defeated 

Destiny • strategic • biological 

essentialism • Understand sexuality 

Male identified • Constructed • outside of 

culture • use of such notions • terms 

Construction • Discourse • Power • fallic

• Determined • Masculine • Reductive 

Political undue of cultural construction 

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Feminist sexuality • postulation 

Cultural impossibility • rethinking 

Sexuality, identity, power, matrix 

MALE • Replay • Redistribute 

Powerfield of sexuality • Phantasmic

• Radical repudiation • construction 

Forms of repetition • constitute a 

Simple imitation, reproduction and 

Consolidation of the law 

identification 

Various emergent 

Govern gender life 

Power dynamics in sexuality 

Simple • augmentation 

Heterosexist, falligacentric 

Power regime 

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Exist ∘ Mobilize • redescribed • disjunctive 

Masculine/Feminine/unity of gender

Uniform • Compulsory • relative meanings 

Unity of gender • render • compulsory 

Produce • Suppress, subversive, convergence

logic, metaphysic, repetition • cultural 

reproduction of identity, ∘person∘

escape matrix of power ∘ culturally 

Constructed character

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“One is not born, but becomes a woman.” 

-Beuvoir – ‘Woman’ itself is a term 

in process, a becoming, a construct

ing, that cannot rightfully be said to 

originate or end – ongoing, discursive practice

it is open to intervention & resignification 

congealing itself & insidious 

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Sustained and regulated by various 

social means – Gender is continual 

Stylization of the body 

rigid regulatory frame -natural 

Gender ontology – constitute acts 

Compulsory frames • appearance 

burden • gendered • admits possibilities 

Regulatory fictions 

Heterosexist / masculine oppression 

identity signification 

illusions of identity 

No one cares to 

talk about it?

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“Infected be the air whereon they ride.” 

Ghost • Significance • Magic • Trash • odor 

Typical • fearless • Sent by God 

• Tarquin – the Rape of Lucrece 

• Growth of the serpent 

• Fearless – hoped – wrestles • demise

extra-sensory perception • haunted 

place • blood • smoke • infection 

Scents • space • depicted • play

ruby upon the cheeks

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Basic terrors   –Aliens -people

believe aliens exist – UFO – pics

Movie Aliens • egotistical attitude

if you think we’re the only ones

• Planet X – spooky – spook city

Invasion will be launched! 

Invaders – hands, eyes

“The thing” – Martian invaders 

Dude was freaking about about the 

thing • Two stunt doubles – what 

is 

being from another world as 

opposite to us as one pole to another 

if only we could communicate with 

it. IT! From Space – intelligent 

creature – open the door 

“ ⚔A⋆｡l˚ i☁︎ ˚｡e⋆｡˚n⋆🖇☽˚｡⋆.𖥔 ݁ ˖” (9/20/21)xi

in space, no one can hear you 

scream. Build your core – 

Be unstoppable “thing” remake

came from outer space – 3rd dimension 

Strange surgical experiments 

This earth of yours – burned

down cinder – “The Devil Girl

from Mars”, Talking forever 

Make sure they’re watching you 

Flying saucers, little green monsters 

Bullet in the arm – completely 

Healed – get drunk or quit?

Jawline – robe – suit – Washington

Meeting • Judge • impatient with 

Stupidity – my people have learned 

to live without it – My people haven’t 

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Wild symphonic music – scary ominous – Quick cuts to build suspense • news gets out • protect your kids! Walter Reed Hospital Urge all citizens to be on alert No effort to minimize osiris Remain Calm • Man’s face NO ordinary man – powers beyond • our world’s own understanding – help you look for the spaceman. Quiet as a mouse – long way from home – mile away 

“And now on this sunday morning we ask some questions that have been haunting the entire nation

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Who is this creature? If it can build robots that can destroy our weaponry what else is it capable of? What other horrors could it release at will? The monster must be found. Must be tracked down like a wild animal • Must be destroyed •

But where would such a creature hide? Would he disappear into the North Woods? Would he crawl into the sewers of some great city? 

“Savant calls meeting to study space ship” Professor Barnhardt Invites World’s Science Leaders Grace danger – protect ourselves 

Destroy it – retaliation • Government 

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something otherwise he wouldn’t be here – trusts son with the f***ing Alien – though it does sort of seem like the Alien is just curious • different worlds • no wars 

No foolin’, will yah? No foolin! Alien is touring D.C., learns about Abe Lincoln 

“I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.” 

Inertia – property of matter by which it remains in uniform motion unless acted upon by external forces he’ll never get it that way

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Do give this to the professor 

Day earth stood still 

Gave audience sense of real reaction 

to the alien invader – societies reaction 

Give into hysteria 

No sign of threat yet humans 

prepare for war against a peaceful 

flying saucer – Universality of the 

theme – camera demonstrates to 

audience that the human reaction 

is curiosity and apprehension regardless

of racial details -> overreaction 

tension, mysterious, intentions 

possibilities, clouded judgement

American military isolation – came 

Here to tell you the facts, not to provide

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fuel for your irrational paranoia

Alien “carpenter” [carp] wants 

to be amongst the people and 

see what he can learn directly 

Alien acts nothing like a fugitive 

as the hunt for him begins 

merely going about the business

about learning about humans 

Juxtaposed – showing contrast 

between the hysteria of the 

radio broadcast with images of

Alien looking ordinary and non

threatening