I like boring things.
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
There are times when you read or see something and all of a sudden it connects with every thing that follows. I dyed my hair, again. While I was in the store figuring out the right shade of teenage rebellion sehnsucht I was distracted by groups of teenagers, who were anxiously trying on fake plugs [...]
Žižek on Jenny Holzer’s truism
Jenny Holzer’s famous truism “Protect me from what I want” [...] can either be read as an ironic reference to the standard male chauvinist wisdom that a woman, when left to herself, gets caught in the self-destructive fury, so that she must be protected from herself by the benevolent male domination: “Protect me from the [...]