Verborrea: noviembre 2010

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... es taaaan poco. Aunque con la ayuda de nuestro amigo el interlineado 1.5...

the woman as castrated 'bearer of the bleeding wound' (Lebeau 2001: 94).

Penis envy

Can this really be part of scientific discourse?

The boy, gazing in horror at the 'mutilated creature' - the absence of a penis on the female body - is shocked into the belief that castration can happen; the girl, realising for the first time the extent of her own loss, is thrown into a state of consuming envy: 'She has seen it and knows that she is without it and wants to have it' (Freud 1925a: 252).

Cited in Vicky Lebeau. Psychoanalysis and cinema. The play of shadows. Wallflower Press. London. 2001. pp. 96.

Sartre on Freud (from a script).

Cäcilie: You want us to be cured together?
Freud: Yes. And by one another.

(Jean Paul Sartre, The Freud Scenario (1958)).

Althusser on the "invention" of free will

Analysts of agency have found the theorist Louis Althusser helpful in thinking through these issues. Althusser argued that the subject is a subject of ideology -not in the narrow sense of propaganda but in the broad sense of the pervasive cultural formations of the dominant class. Althusser recognized the power of coercive state intitutions to conform subjects to particular behaviors, beliefs, and identities -institutions such as the military and the police. He also recognized that there are less overtly coercive institutions - social services, educational institutions, the family, literary and artistic institutions- that "hail" subjects who enter them. By "hailing" Althusser meant the process through which subjects become interpelled, become what institutional discourses and practices make of them. They are "subjected." Most important, individuals understand themselves to be "naturally" self-produced because the power of ideology to hail the subject is hidden, obscured by the very practices of the institution. In this way, people are invested in and mystified by their own production as subjects, by their own "subjection." That is, they have "false consciousness": they collude in their own lack of agency by believing that they have it. It is not enough, then, to say that people exercise free will. The concept of "free will" is itself embedded in a discourse about the Enlightment individual, a historically specific discourse through which subjects understand themselves as intellectually mature and free to make their own choices. To claim that all humans have something called "free will" in this way is to misunderstand an ideological concept as a "natural" aspect of existence.

- Smith, Sidonie and Watson, Julia. Reading Autobiography. 2001. University of Minessota Press. (42-43)

O sea, víctimas de los sistemas somos.

Mujer chicana

mixed-race, marginal, migratory, diasporic, multi-cultural, minoritized, mestiza, and nomadic.

Términos usados en el discurso postcolonial para denominar a las mujeres chicanas:

On photo therapy

Therapists who practice a kind of photo-therapy find that "during periods of stress and family crisis... there is a sharp drop in the numbers of pictures taken. This includes periods surrounding illness, death, family separations and fragmentations, and heightened conflict between differrent members and fractions of the family... Periods of depression, crisis, disorganization, and rapid family change are ofter characterized by the absense of pictures. Gaps in the picture chronology can point to questions to be asked about loss, separation, disappointment, and grief. " Florence W. Kaslow and Jack Friedman, "Utilization of Family Photos and Movies in Family Therapy," Journal of Marriage and Family Counseling (January 1977): 20,30.

Note on Michelle Citron's first chapter "What's Wrong with this picture?" from "Home movies and other necessary fictions". University of Minessota Press. 1999.

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Veo visitas de hoy y ¡oh, sorpresa!:

Indago, indago, quiero ver. Tal vez es el chico de los ojos pispiretos que ha estado leyendo todos y cada uno de mis posts..

Son piratas desesperados:

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Imágenes de circulación masiva

Probablemente las primeras fotografías de circulación masiva. Mayo 1871. Celebrando el triunfo de la represión estatal.

¿Qué función sirven las imágenes de circulación masiva de los medios de comunicación de hoy?

La historia completa, para que no nos confundamos:

Hubo un levantamiento en Francia en 1871, algunos dicen que socialista, otros que anarquista. Personas del movimiento y prensa de la época tomaron varias fotografías como la siguiente, celebrando sus pequeñas victorias:

El levantamiento duró apenas dos meses, las fotografías tomadas durante este período fueron usadas por el gobierno para identificar y encarcelar a los participantes.

El gobierno, en siniestra imitación, puso así mismo en circulación imágenes de su victoria sobre los rebeldes, para escarmiento de los demás.

Moraleja 1. ¡Oh, narcisos!
Moraleja 2. Cuidado con los estados europeos (bien liberales, según ellos).

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Ahora rapidshare nos pide cortésmente que dejemos de atascar el servidor. Youtube nos prohíbe ver muchos videos...

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Sony Portapak

La Sony Portapak es la primera cámara de video portátil que se inventó.

Acabo de descubrir que la imagen con la que se promocionaba, al parecer, era la de una mujer con vestidito sesentero con la cámara...

¿por qué es una mujer promocionando un producto tecnológico?

Seguramente querían hacer ver que es tan portable y fácil de usar, que hasta se le puede confiar a una mujer.... a una mujer con vestidito.

Mare mía.