Tag: biopolitical social control
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Try These Four Fun Tips to Make Women Feel Weird!
Other people’s agency got you down? Having difficulty asserting the dominion over man and beast our sexual culture has promised you? What if the secret to sleeping with any woman you wanted was simply making her feel weird enough to consent despite her deeply held reservations? Four Dollar Wine is on it! With these easy tips, you’ll have potential…
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Dotted Lines
Ah, the problem of embodiment. Like an itch we can’t scratch, like the prelude to a sneeze, like an unattainable orgasm, we are both bound to and alienated from the flesh. Heavy with questions of physicality, I seek once again to lose – or find? or embrace the fragmentation of? – myself in a sweaty…
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Valentine’s Day
Is Valentine’s Day a tool of biopolitical social control? Is the Pope Catholic? Valentine’s Day was originally a pagan holiday appropriated, as so many of them were, by the Catholic Church for nefarious keep-the-people-in-line purposes. (I can say this because I was raised Catholic.) The holiday has since been co-opted by global capitalism, which has…
Reina Gattuso 