“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.
“September” (9/20/21)ii
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
“September” (9/20/21)iii
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
“September” (9/20/21)v
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
“September” (9/20/21)vi
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
“September” (9/20/21)vii
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
“September” (9/20/21)viii
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?
“September” (9/20/21)ix
“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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“September” (9/20/21)xiii
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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“September” (9/20/21)xiv
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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
