wintering.
A little winter diary...
Read MoreDrones Are Not Queer Bodies: Cara Daggett, queer necropolitics, and 'the imperialism of theory'.
In which I formulate a response to Cara Daggett's 2014 article 'Drone Disorientations: How "unmanned" weapons queer the experience of killing in war'. My working title for this piece was Drones Are Not Queer Bodies (and other sentences I can't believe I have to write).
Read Morethe call is coming from inside the house. (self surveillance, mental health, and the subject of capital.)
A loving critique of Rod Tweedy’s article ‘A mad world: capitalism and the rise of mental illness’, from my own position as both leftist theorist and mentally ill person. Here I draw both on Foucault’s nebulous account, in Omnes et Singulatim, of how the ‘Western’ subject has been constituted by ideological forces, on Frantz Fanon's decolonial theorising, and on my personal experiences. This is where I first posit the Interior Thatcher!
Read Morearashiyama, autumn (嵐山, 秋で).
15 minutes on the train from Kyoto station will take you to Arashiyama (嵐山, Storm Mountain). I went there in the autumn-time.
I ate beautiful 精進料理 (shōujin-ryōri, devotional cuisine, a vegan style of cooking that is unique to the Japanese Zen tradition) in a Rinzai temple; I visited the Shinto shrine where ancient princesses used to train and prepare for their lifelong custodianship of the major shrine at Ise. You can walk in bamboo groves and sacred gardens that are lush and heavy with life, and with the resonant notion, long forgotten by most in the so-called 'West', that human being is not separate from, nor different from, the rest of what we call 'nature'. The distilled, poetic wildness of a Japanese garden reminds me, always always, of our radical, sacred interconnection with all things.
It was super busy (autumn leaf viewing is serious business in Japan), and yet somehow, looking back through my photographs, I'm filled with the same sense of peace and immersion that I experienced that afternoon. Lots of photographs below...
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my recently-completed o w l s jumper, which i named after this tarot card .
Hello.
My first ever blog post!! Hello! I am Josie, and I'm about to embark upon what (I hope) is an exciting new phase of my life. I wanted somewhere to put it, a place to document the little things, the 'eternal now'; and I wanted a space where I can try and re-learn how to write without the constructs and constraints of academia to hide behind. And here we are.
I'm going to post about the things I love (I love a lot of things): design, art, writing, fashion, food, cuteness, knitting, landscape, feminism, politics/ethics, plants, photography, folklore, coffee, philosophy, tarot, silliness, travel, daily life in Bristol (UK), and all that sort of thing. I think the mundane is magical, and sharing things makes me very very happy.
love love ♡