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Meditations on lesbians who meditate on Lesvosan exploration on the inhabitation of separatist space
Vanity (Fair), conflict, dreams and drama on an ordinary day at the Beastleton the possibilities of critical pedagogies
Renovating Rossistories of anticipation in close encounters of the (un)desirable kind
Passionate Pedogogythe reparative act of hosting an architectural conversation
Dear Architect,a flirt’s scientific autobiography
reConstructing a Collective Critical Fictiona feminist architectural cosmology
Room specificationsrenovation of Casa Unifamiliare
Characters
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‘situated knowledge¼ -Donna Haraway‘nomadic subjects¼ -Rosi Braidotti
‘queer phenomenology¼ -Sara Ahmed‘gender trouble¼ -Judith Butler
‘emergent writing methodologies¼ -Mona Livholts‘style is never not content¼ -Ali Smith
‘reparative vs. paranoid¼-Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
‘scholarly flirtations¼ -Gavin Butt
‘engaged pedagogy¼ -bell hooks
‘Camp¼ -Susan Sontag
‘ritual modes of gathering¼ -Isabelle Stengers“Rituals are modes of gathering, the achievement of which is that it is no longer I, as a subject, as meant to belong to nobody but myself, who thinks and feels... what the ritual achieves could perhaps be compared to what physicists describe as putting ‘out of equilibrium’, out of the position which allows us to speak in terms of psychology, or habits, or stakes.” -Isabelle Stengers, 2005
”A killjoy: the one who gets in the way of other people’s happiness…. How many feminist stories are about rooms, about who occupies them, about making room?...Willfulness could be rethought as a style of politics: a refusal to look the other way from what has already been looked over. The ones who point out that racism, sexism, and heterosexism are actual are charged with willfulness; they refuse to allow these realities to be passed over.” -Sara Ahmed, 2010
“Imagination is one of the most powerful modes of resistance that oppressed and exploited folks can and do use. ...Without the ability to imagine, people remain stuck, unable to move into a place of power and possibility.” -bell hooks, 2010
“Thus, instructions and rules about writing are not neutral or innocent guidelines, but are shaped by political forces. The contemporary neoliberal ideology, driven by ratings, rankings, and counting, risks suppressing the critical potential of the contribution of writing methodologies in feminist studies and other critical fields.” -Mona Livholts, 2012
“Flirtation might therefore be seen as model for practices of criticism - where it seems necessary and germane - to decenter the paranoid structures of serious analysis, or indeed to re-inflect them with a flirtatious, and playful, form of knowing.” -Gavin Butt, 2007
“Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation - not judgement,. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy. Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature.. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of ”character”... Camp is a tender feeling.” -Susan Sontag, 1966
“No less acute than a paranoid position, no less realistic, no less attached to a project of survival, and neither less nor more delusional or fantasmic, the reparative reading position undertakes a different range of affects, ambitions, and risks. What we can best learn from such practices are, perhaps, the many ways selves and communities succeed in extracting sustenance from the objects of a culture - even of a culture whose avowed desire has often been not to sustain them.” -Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 2003
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CRITICAL FICTIONS
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