what about this…
introduction the fuck is a subject but an object and dispensing with walter benjamin
ch1 freud, inverting the interpretation of dreams.
ch2 althusser, overdetermination and other psychoanalytic influences on antihumanism. complicating the inversion.
ch3 antihumanist psychoanalytic interpretation of X cultural object to pander to lit departments.
conclusion now let me do work on intersectionality.
i’ve had this song on repeat for a while now.
I received another grade today. Quite critical and negative comments. The grade was average because nobody uses grades in grad school to say you suck. You’re plainly enough told so. This way of things seems luxurious until you wish to say, “no miss madame sir, /you/ are the one who deep throats a diseased appendage daily.”
If we ignore tuition debt, I have -$4. Sick. Thankfully I look like I always have money, otherwise the street locals would stop asking me for change and cigarettes. “You’re a pig.” He said. Oh that guy… love him to death, to be dead. The crux crystallizes when I can hand out future change backed by faith in the inevitable fruits of my privilege in the same way that I live on debt for my education as if I have none, neither education nor indebtedness.
i have to revise my 2500 word seminar presentation that hardly anyone listened to by deleting 2000 of them and writing something completely different (apparently explicating the chapter nobody read is not a worthwhile pedagogical exercise). it’s the end of the term and i have better shit to do like write the paper outlined in the post underneath this one. i’m so irritated i have to write 2000 additional words about why Zizek is a sneaky humanist fucker and Althusser is the mostly absent boss when i’ve already turned in the final paper for this class and did a decent, thorough job on the presentation the first time around.
Anti-Imperialist Drag and Uprising through Subordinate Universality
The particular and overdetermined contradictions of the Philippines surface through the “postcolonial drag” of the NPA (New People’s Army). The NPA is engaged in the predominant particular contradiction for their struggle and winning. The overdetermination of that contradiction leads, if it can escape nationalism, to 21st century communism by breaking into the usually distorted to the point of being inaccessible subordinate universality. Nationalism however remains a danger that threatens to undermine the universal cause, even if it may result in success in the predominant particular struggle. butler’s strain of gender theory, in advocating nonidentity politics, may offer us a key toward navigating the subordinate universal by showing the inherent contradictions in constructions of images of a dominant “universal.” by dethroning the dominant image of “universal” through a prevailing dominant particular, we can ignite the subordinate universal as a trigger for further liberatory victories around the world for the dominant particular. the result at that point is 21st century communism in the form of the dialectical transformation of the subordinate universal into its opposite, a dominant universal that retains the uneven development of overdetermination, or in other words, a universal that is neither properly dominant nor subordinate, but in particular varying degrees, the reigning order of things.
I had no idea until yesterday that Althusser drew so much inspiration from Mao. Contradiction and overdetermination, and rejecting the category of negation of negation, for example.
Thesis proposal hearing went okay except for the part when I felt like dropping my bullshit project.
oh no two americans died let’s cry about it and pray for months and get really nationalistic and bomb the 90,000 brown people who are responsible… again.
