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chica marx

@mckenziewark

1 month

My little book LIFE STORY will be published by @hanumaneds in June. You can preorder here:

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An anecdote passed down to me: once when the New School was occupied by students, members of the grad faculty met in a hotel room to decide what to do. When the police were mentioned, Hannah Arendt said, *in German*—"you never call the police."

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3 years

Its not just teaching through a pandemic and weird weather—its trying to convey the power and pleasure of learning when the world we'd be learning for isn't actually going to be there, and everyone sort of knows it.

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Foucault worked with prison activists and the anti-psychiatry movement. As for ppl who think those are trivial 'neoliberal', 'identity politics' concerns: I see you.

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So much of STONE BUTCH BLUES is about learning the habits of solidarity. It really needs to be more widely reward.

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9 months

Speaking of "useless degrees": how is a degree in marketing or business going to help you confront the inevitability of your own death?

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5 months

Gonna put this here as my answer to @dan_sinykin 's poll about the purpose of lit crit.

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chica marx

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4 years

Hey @nytimes how come you didn't cover this?

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4 years

Feels to me like there's too many content creators and not enough form destroyers.

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2 years

I’ve always had an appreciation for ppl who craft their own lives as works of art. So it was perhaps inevitable that I found myself among transsexuals.

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10 months

At the rave, on the dance floor, someone leant in to shout in my ear "I cited you in my thesis!" Then walked away. I love everything about this. Life and learning overlapping. And this person's most excellent manners in keeping the interaction brief.

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3 years

Straight up N @zi shit.

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2 years

My 61st birthday. This part of my life may not be long but it’s very sweet. Thanks to all the special ppl in it.

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2 years

Y'all posting wordle results on the TL when you should be posting tweets that amuse and delight me.

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5 months

We're witnessing the destruction of *profitable* culture industries simply because they're not profitable enough. Everything's to be thrown in the furnace to fuel infinite growth.

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3 years

Ground beef implies the existence of sky beef.

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3 years

Funny uncle Ray having a normal one.

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Being lectured about gender by the ppl who are still on the starter pack—

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4 years

Princeton University finds more expensive way to demonstrate what we already know about how language works.

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chica marx

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10 months

For those who wanted to know the readings for my autotheory class:

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chica marx

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3 years

I was handed home-made translations of Foucault in the late 70s by gay liberationists. You could get locked up for being gay in those days, by both psychiatrists and cops. It's about as 'materialist' a politics as you could fucking get.

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At the time, most Marxists could only think one institutional site of struggle, and that was 'factory.' After Foucault, one could engage with 'prison' or 'psychiatric ward' and 'school' as having their own materiality, not just as adjuncts or doubles of 'factory.'

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7 years

Some next level meme game going on here.

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3 years

To the younger dolls: what I can tell is that time speeds up as you age. Fill your time with love and pleasure. Be intentional about efforts to make the world livable for all. Live as many moments as u can as if they are works of art.

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2 years

I’m supposed to buy the book with the transphobic premise and read it before deciding it has a transphobic premise?

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All writing is plagiarism.

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4 months

First day of residency. Wrote two paragraphs. Mostly stared at the sea.

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chica marx

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3 years

Writing is just manual labor. Don't think—type. Start anywhere. Write anything. Practice your instrument—the keyboard.

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chica marx

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1 year

Just signed my contract with @DukePress to edit WHEN MONSTERS SPEAK: A @susanstryker READER. Looking forward to bringing this edited collection of some of Susan's finest work to the world in 2024.

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2 years

Hot take on NTFs: it's the art market perfected. The art market is all about provenance: the chain of authentication and verifiable ownership of the art work. It's that, automated, making the art work itself redundant. The destiny of minimal and conceptual art revealed.

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@TheodorAwhoreno From “ all the good ones are gay” to “all the good ones turned out to be trans women” in a generation.

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This ruling class is showing us that their only real answer will be police police police.

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chica marx

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4 years

If you are an international student at @TheNewSchool : I’d be willing to do in person independent study, if it can help u meet visa requirements and if I can supervise something that fits your program of study.

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9 months

Happy birthday Georges Bataille. Pour one out for a real one.

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5 years

Is the nyt opinion page okay?

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chica marx

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2 years

Happy tranniversary to me! 4 years ago today I started 'mones, after a period of social transition. Enjoying this version of being a body in the world much more.

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chica marx

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@mlobelart I was on edibles waiting for a show at the shed one night and became convinced that it’s purpose is to mark the ambience around it in the psychogeography of the city as one of pure evil.

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chica marx

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3 years

To the haters I haven't blocked yet: 1. "paraphilia" is not the insult you think it is and p.s. your sex life is probably very boring. 2. yes, I take a lot of selfies and I look great in them. 3. yes, I'm old. You'll be glad to look this good when you are.

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The problem with writing about the self is that selves are fictions. One is trying to write honestly about something whose sole purpose is to front, to evade, that is self-deluding.

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chica marx

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6 years

As I've been saying: there's a new kind of ruling class, in addition to landlords and capitalists. I call them the vectoralist class. They own and control the vector of information. The ruling by enforing asymmetries of information.

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Artists are just ppl who have an aesthetic relation to their own pathologies.

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Somebody had an elite education but still doesn’t understand Walter Benjamin.

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chica marx

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1 year

My twink era. In my boyfriend's cashmere sweater.

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3 years

Unpopular opinion: Goddard is vastly overrated. His rep was made by cineastes. Men who preferred cinema to life. In Goddard's leading ladies they saw idealized versions of the students and assistants and secretaries they so desperately wanted to fuck.

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4 years

2015/2020...

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3 years

How to rave at 59 years of age: 1. Come for the opener. Small crowd, lots of space on the floor. Usually sonically adventurous. 2. Go home and nap. 3. Come back for the closer. Not hard to match the crowd's energy. All bangers set. 4. Back home and nap.

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Grad students are under so much pressure to reference *all* the literatures. What if we changed the criteria to referencing the *interesting* ones? And making a case for them as interesting? Rather than the banality of citation and the citation of banality...

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It was one of Marx’s most profound insights that revolutionary movements think current struggles through past languages. And yet ppl do exactly what he said not to do—in his name.

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Back in the late 70s, an older comrade said to me: "I won't live to see communism, but you will." Sometime late last Friday night I said to a younger raver: "I won't live to see the end of civilization, but you will."

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4 years

Fuck the @nytimes . I see what u did there. Who got the active verb here?

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2 years

@brb_irl My Prada is vintage but my Marxism is fresh.

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As Tank Girl once said:

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chica marx

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Happy fifth tranniversary b--ch. Five years ago today I started running this thing on a high-e, low-t blend and after the usual messy start its all felt so much better. Photo by Z. Walsh.

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1 year

The reckless and destructive policies of President @dwightamcbride has pushed @TheNewSchool faculty to consider a vote of no confidence.

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8 months

Happy pub day to @SaraNAhmed !

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me at 20, me at 40, me at 60, me at 80 (probably)

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Twitter is owned by the same ruling class today as it was yesterday and as it will be tomorrow.

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Never trust an Ivy Leaguer who does not view that institution with the utmost contempt.

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4 years

Happy The Lesser Fascism Day!

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You meet some ppl whose entire lives seem plagiarized.

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He had to create an entire worldview to be able to exist independently of it. Not that you'd know any of this reading American opinionators who just read some texts in American grad school, as if that was the institutional form in which the texts themselves emerged.

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4 years

I'm editing an issue of @e_flux journal on trans | fem | aesthetics. Contributors are paid. Anyone want to pitch me? If u know the journal you'll know the vibe. DM me.

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Things that can be erotic, a list: • stepping out in clothes you know you look good in • a gym in a working class neighborhood • a conversation had just for the pleasure of it • dancing with strangers in a queer bar • hot chocolate on a cold morning

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#mood

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Paul Virilio passing is the end of an era for me. He was central to my thinking in the 80s. And also a great example of low theory as a genre of writing.

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4 years

Two years ago today: the first social event I attended as an out trans woman.

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Brooklyn

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3 years

Only 3 ppl from PARIS IS BURNING are still alive. Junior is one of them.

‘Paris Is Burning’ Emcee Junior LaBeija on ‘Pose,’ RuPaul and Why He Never Let Hollywood Tell His...

LaBeija, who once lorded over the ballroom scene with a fearless wit and bravado that would inspire Billy Porter and 'Legendary,' says he understands Janet Mock's "f*** Hollywood" outburst: "When you...

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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chica marx

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This is the mood I was addressing in RAVING:

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St Louis Post Dispatch manages to do what ⁦ @nytimes ⁩ ⁦ @TheAtlantic ⁩ and ⁦ @NYMag ⁩ have failed to do on this topic—report it.

Parents push back on allegations against St. Louis transgender center. ‘I’m baffled.’

Accounts from almost two dozen parents contradict examples provided by former case manager at transgender center.

www.stltoday.com

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Updating my cv. Seriously thinking of putting my transition on it.

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What we do to make a living is not to be confused with what we do to make a life.

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Best not to sound off about gender when you've only ever attempted one of them.

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feel like I've heard that before somewhere—

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@ajbwells Common trope among white Americans about Australia: unconsciously pining for something like America before the Civil Rights movement.

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My youngest explaining to a new d+d friend over the ether that I'm their dad but that they use she/her pronouns for me. Took less than a minute. The zoomers have got this. It's not complicated.

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62, but tell everyone I'm 90

Mel Stone

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38 baby, but i tell everyone i’m 40

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Imagine Hannah Arendt having to sign this every week.

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chica marx

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3 years

There's several eras to Foucault's work. 'Discipline and Punish' and 'Birth of the Clinic' is just one moment in it. I see it as descending from Bachelard and Canguillem's work on philosophy of science, but extended to the social sciences and their material effects.

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chica marx

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It would appear that quite a few ppl have very limited notions and awareness of what 'the erotic' can be. Its capacious and gentle at the edges. Its not sex, altho that too can be more varied things than ppl want to think about. Your model of these things is not universal.

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@mashagessen I had a newspaper column for 10 years, hun. I don't recall ever writing about people without reading or interviewing their advocates. I might have disagreed with them but I'd want to show I knew their position. That you did not do.

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This is so true it’s uncanny

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Wendy Carlos, as interviewed in Playboy, 1979

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All of the claims to the sovereignty of our bodies are connected. To decide when to fuck, to abort, to transition. To not be killed, incarcerated, excluded. One struggle, different bodies.

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Queer theory coulda been about Octavia rather than Judith Butler.

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I don't know what the fuck i was thinking but i decided to create this new course on Trans | Media for undergrads. To show all the cool stuff our ppl have been making lately & invite some whose work i admire to come in and share. The adventure begins next Tuesday. Wish me luck!

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Doing my shot to SOPHIE.

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Contrary to a common belief: the sex of the 'biological' body can be complicated & strange. It's the social roles of gender that are rigid and fixed. Some bodies just don't fit into those gender roles, which after all are just handed out after a quick visual inspection at birth

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Turning 62 today. Cannot believe I’ve lived this long. Turned out that what I thought was a fragile constitution was just dysphoria.

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Bless. Just as trans ppl get David Cronenberg, he gets us.

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Maybe this time the other shoe will drop: that the entire apparatus of officially recognized art and culture is decoration on the surface of empire.

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I came out several times. As bi, a gay man, as nonbinary, as a trans woman, as a trans lesbian. Besides being functionally a heterosexual man for long periods. Gender and sexuality can be complicated, can change, can take time to figure out, or not. #NationalComingOutDay

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I want a t-shirt that says INCOMPATIBLE WITH FREUD.

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Today's ruling class, the worst the planet will ever endure, is telling us very clearly that they don't care about mass extinction, including the future possible disappearance of most of their 7 billion fellow humans.

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Claudia Rankine. Getting this out there in advance of trans day of visibility...

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Has to be said tho: the prevalence of Foucault in American grad schools is an indirect result of the black listing of communist intellectuals in the 50s. He filled a void still there decades later.

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@mashagessen I have to take that on trust, given that no trans ppl who work on this stuff appear in the piece at all. I hope you know what you're doing. Your piece is proving popular with ppl who do not have our interests at heart.

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