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By becca rothfeld for the New Yorker. EVERYONE (in my niche pocket of the internet) is talking about becca rothfeld - as they should! She’s incredible go read it
Feb 19, 2024
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-longer read but really fantastic and fun analysis of Cronenberg’s work, eroticism, transformative sex, and consent :D
-Not as engaged with August Blue as I was Hot Milk but Debbie is for the girls with mommy issues
Mar 4, 2024
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well-written article analyzing cronenburg's films and contrasting them with today's sexual politics and lack of eroticism.
passage i enjoyed: In fact, we are not impermeable packages of preformed desires, importing our likes and dislikes around with us from one encounter to the next like papers in a briefcase. An erotic craving is inextricable from the ferment that foams up when oneself is sluiced into another. Not only is it impossible for us to know whether an encounter will be deflating or transformative but we cannot know what sort of metamorphosis will ensue if the sex is as jarring as we can only hope it will be.
Feb 19, 2024
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sooo fascinating! uses david cronenberg films to talk about desire / lust / sex / obsession & theories related to body horror & romance.
Mar 7, 2024
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if I go somewhere (train station, highway, supermarket) and there are massive screens which play ads on a loop, purposefully bright and loud and situated in a public space I experience this as an evil. It actively harms me. i don’t think we need to go any further than Times Square to find proof that aesthetic value is at least partially grounded in moral value.
Jan 31, 2024
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You are obligated to make a good faith attempt to like your friends boyfriend five separate times. However five times is quite generous of you and if your don’t like them on the sixth occassion it is out of your hands.
Jan 28, 2024
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Pilates + not eating processed foods + minimum 8 hours sleep + no coffee past 12pm… who knew feeling like an anxious, sleepless, over caffeinated mess all the time didn’t have to be the case!
May 23, 2024