Monday, 28 June 2010
Tuesday, 15 June 2010
Tim Walker
In Plaster
I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now:
The new absolutely white person and the old yellow one,
And the white person is certainly the superior one...
Without me she wouldn't exist, so of course she was grateful.
I gave her a soul, I bloomed out of her as a rose..
I'm collecting my strength, one day I shall manage without her,
And she'll perish with emptiness then, and begin to miss me.
Sylvia Plath.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Eva Hoffman - After Such Knowledge
The uncanny in Freud's formulation, is the sense of something that is both very alien and deeply familiar, something that only the unconscious knows. If so, then the second generation has grown up with the uncanny. And sometimes, it needs to be said, wrestling with shadows can be more frightening, or more confusing, than struggling with solid realities. Like Hamlet's father, the ghosts demand devotion, sacrifice, justice, truth, vengeance.
Naomi Wolf - Promiscuities
"Our girls move towards womanhood through the demarcations of what they can buy or own...the culture often makes girls into women in ways they do not choose, before they are psychologically ready, and it defines their readiness as a passive biological development."
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