Listening to Autechre's elseq and nts sessions have warped and glitched out my brain beyond inconceivable grounds. They have been pushing out the limits of what music can be; feel free to have them alter yours too:
elseq 1-5: https://youtu.be/s00YGgmfYw4?si=rYrZYJkjh0DNnNgz
nts session 1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nJhxGbkngKuJGKG...... reply
Satantango by Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
I've been reading it since Bela Tarr adapted it for the screen. It's bleak, very bleak. The world is on the verge of collapse; everything is rotting; it's wet and muddy. The story is told in a single, dense paragraph, which makes it a tough read for me. Despite how dizzying the sentences could be sometimes, it i...... reply
I have nothing to add but I just wanna say, some of the answers here are screaming capitalist realism and I just want to laugh-cry
about the human nature that many so readily invoked here, I'll argue human nature is a construct. it has a history of its own. maybe we should rethink where and how did it come from, and whose interests are invested be...... reply
I recommend:
- Sexing the Body: Gender Politics & the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
- Feminism Against Cisness edited by Emma Heaney
- The Straight Mind and Other Essays by Monique Wittig
- Who's Afraid of Gender by Judith Butler (or Gender Trouble if you're feeling very adventurous)
- Close to Home: A Materialist Analysis of Wo...... reply
other have chipped in what I wanted to say, so I'd like to suggest some texts you can consider reading to understand the matter, and especially sex and gender as constructed:
glossary of terms: transgender - https://www.glaad.org/reference/trans-terms
https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/1/1-2/63/92024/Cisgenderism
https://read.dukeupress.edu/ts...... reply