March 2012
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Notes #3 Jill Dolan's Geographies of Learning
“For instance, we could demonstrate, to our students and to our readers and listeners, how we’re motivated by the erotics of ideas, by the partialness of knowledge, by the presentness of ourselves in relationship to each other, using performance or any other mode of critical pedagogy. We could use our positions as teachers and scholars to put the body back into thought, to think of...
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“I want to conclude this chapter by turning back to the queerness of the bees and...”
– Judith Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure
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The Wild Bees by John Griffin
The Wild Bees by John Griffin
A death wind swished across your open book and dusted from its dusty leaves and colophon the spores that gather in spines and gutters, that swarm when agitated like motes in sunlight like mites metamorphosing into seething bees that set the silence humming, throbbing. What comes alive in the shimmering shafts, dancing and lemniscating, constructs infinity...
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“‘None of them has ever been seen copulating’, claimed Aristotle. He...”
– Bee Wilson, The Hive
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Notes #2 from Jill Dolan's Geographies of Learning
“Likewise, in Geographies of Learning, I proselytize for theater as an intensely social, still potentially radical site of cultural transformation. As Bonnie Marranca notes, theater is ‘the only cultural space in which felt speech and concentrated listening and looking is preserved.’ She goes on, ‘In this realm one can discover qualities increasing disappearing from...
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Notes #1 from Judith Halberstam's The Queer Art of...
“Rather than just arguing for a reevaluation of these standards of passing and falling, The Queer Art of Failure dismantles the logics of success and failure with which we currently live. Under certain circumstances failing, losing, forgetting, unmaking, undoing, unbecoming, not knowing may in fact offer more creative, more cooperative, more surprising ways of being in the world. Failing...
