Textual Possession: Some Thoughts on Materiality, Ownership, and the Power of Books
I am writing this post on my 11 inch MacBook air, which is significantly lighter than my previous MacBook, a chubby, white, rounded model...
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Cameron Steele
- Dec 1, 2015
Queer Asana: Why Yoga Spaces Need to Embrace, Empower, and Encourage Queer Wellbeing
- A theoretical meditation in the form of Surya Namaskar A In a recent candlelight yoga flow class I teach every Thursday night at...
Sex Talk with Katie and Anne
- Nov 10, 2015
Gazing Back: Female Desire at the Movies
Katie: We want to share a conversation we’ve been having over the past few months, a conversation about film, women, and desire. It...
James Lowell Brunton & Robert Lipscomb
- Nov 7, 2015
A Very Queer Apocalypse and the Uncanny Feminism of Mad Max (Part Two)
The Road Warrior (1981): The sinthomosexual and his catamite. In the first post in this series, we covered some of the discussions...
Nick White
- Nov 3, 2015
On Vertigo (Not the Hitchcock One): A Note on Difficulty and the Illicit Pleasures of Incomprehensio
1: Unbecoming Becoming Kim Novak During Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s talk last week at the Sheldon, I began to feel dizzy. Low blood sugar?...
Aubrey Streit Krug
- Oct 27, 2015
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s "Animal: New Directions in the Theorization of Race and Posthumanism&qu
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s 2013 essay begins with a brief but incisive genealogy of posthumanist theory, a genealogy in which scholars like...
Raul Palma
- Oct 27, 2015
Re: To Reconsider, Review, Reexamine, Reassess, Reevaluate, Reappraise, Rethink: Riffing on Nick Whi
I. The term multimodal is problematic. We need some context. How's Aristotle—mimesis (representation) / diegesis (telling)—as a starting...
James Lowell Brunton
- Oct 13, 2015
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s “Outer Worlds: The Persistence of Race in Movement ‘Beyond the Human’”
Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s essay “Outer Worlds: The Persistence of Race in Movement ‘Beyond the Human’” makes a critical intervention into...
watershedunl
- Oct 13, 2015
Notes on Our Aesthetics
The second year of Watershed is underway, and we would like to take this opportunity to address some of the aesthetics of the site...
Nick White
- Oct 6, 2015
To Reconsider, Review, Reexamine, Reassess, Reevaluate, Reappraise, Rethink: Some Short Drafts on Wo
Draft #1: Technology Was Scary, and Then I Became a Diabetic One may as well begin with the diagnosis: Five years ago a doctor at an...
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