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(I am boldly applying this paragraph to the experience of consuming Perfectly Imperfect recs)
“One of the characteristics of taste is that it is infectious. The essence of a mesh is that it is a repeating pattern, and although each repeat may depend for its shape on the operation of outside forces — economic, social, religious, political, climactic and so on — yet those forces can only operate on single individuals. And the particularly sensitive individuals who first respond to them become, themselves, forces that affect the whole surrounding area.”
Jan 17, 2024
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Collection of essays by the French mystic nicknamed ‘the categorical imperative in skirts‘
Let me convince you with this quote: ‘We want to get behind the beauty, but it is only a surface. It is like a mirror that reflects to us our own desire for good. It is a sphinx, an enigma, a sorrowfully irritating mystery.
We want to feed on it, but it is only an object we can look on; it appears to us from a certain distance. The great sorrow of human life is knowing that to look and to eat are two different operations.’
I WANT TO EAT THE SUNSET I want to HAVE IT that is what is so great and sexy about food, you can eat the gorgeous pastry, you can consume it, it becomes apart of you and sustains you. But a beautiful painting or person or landscape is different - you can’t have it. You can’t do anything with it. its beauty exists in virtue of its remove from you. true beauty is useless and the fact that I can’t have or do anything with the beautiful thing is unbearable.
Jul 20, 2024
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Mind, body, spirit integration is simply not enough!! and it exists in no context, as if each human is meant to be an island. It’s like a proto-Descartian, sterilized way of attaining “higher consciousness” that doesn’t take into account we ~live in a society~ a society whose beauty lies in its diversity of experience
MBS integration is revolutionized by putting it in relation to embodied experience (eroticism), and in the context of many organisms’ individual pursuits towards MBS integration (community).
MBS integration means something More when you do moan in pleasure over your bacon egg and cheese. MBS does mean something more singing in a choir with like minded artists. MBS integration requires context for deeper meaning. The power of the erotic and the power of community provide such context and should be considered in equal measure to MBS integration itself!
Aug 15, 2024
@mothersuperior post on latex and the yearndemic reminded me of this essay that I read a few years ago about the commodification and fetishization of the body and how it’s been paralleled with a lack of chemistry and sexuality that we used to see on screen. The title is your tldr: everyone is hot and no one is horny. The sterilization of sexuality and sex is everywhere, past even film. It’s a response to the acceleration of capitalism, war and colonial extraction of the earth. It has crept into the ways we view ourselves, our experience and our bodies.
One thing I took away from this essay is that to align yourself with traditional beauty standards will make you too tired to fuck. Similarly, the whole « working on yourself » grind that I heard on first dates all the time is this strange, individualistic perspective that makes you too exhausted and distracted for the holistic chemistry we desire. We flatten our lives to marketable lines that make us appear attractive - I’m working on myself, I’ve been going to therapy, I have a nice job and apartment. And while people are obviously horny, they don’t know for what - forming our bodies to be better, our minds fixed and correct, we can’t pinpoint what the purpose is cause we’re too fucking exhausted to investigate further than that. Love, desire, and chemistry feel more and more elusive.
For us to morph ourselves into the image of sexiness according to western beauty standards, there is sacrifice (nutrients, your current corporeal form, the ability to be perceived as more than an object, working long hours for your grind) that doesn’t align with sensuality (unless you’re into that). There is no room for the spectrum of sensations you body is capable of feeling. There is no room for desire when we’ve given it all up the capitalist war machine. :p
Mar 10, 2025
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Jan 6, 2024
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Full disclosure, I live in Aus so cannot *actually* pay for a criterion sub but it would be the first thing I’d do if I lived in the US!!! 🥺 I have accessed one via ~nefarious means but it’s very much worth the $$$
Jan 8, 2024
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What *can’t* Jane Remover do!? Master mixing and genre switching, making jersey club feel fresh again 🏹
Jan 9, 2024