#abjection

[submarinerwrites]

actually i dont think jason todd would be an avid enjoyer of the female gothic, i think he’d understand that the division of gothic literature into reductive gendered categories is antithetical to the genre itself while ultimately serving to produce derivative and superficial interpretations of texts which originated from a context steeped in countless forms of gender play and subversion.

#like. bruh. #hes not an ann radcliffe girlie his whole life is horror not terror #dc #jason todd #literature #abjection #to be clear i dont have anything against radcliffe like shes in my thesis and everything #what i dont like is ellen moers and her oversimplification of an extremely complex genre #like babe. read zofloya. tell me that you dont see mg lewis's influence splattered ALL OVER THE PAGE.

[etherealcry]

#anomalies #animal #animal anomalies #weird aesthetic #weirdcore #abject #abjection #fetus

[campgender]

In this era of post-feminism, the utterly reasonable claim that women should be afforded sexual freedom – that they should be able to declare their desire loudly, to be perverse and lustful and up-for-it – slid into the more dubious insistence that women are and must be so. And something of this insistence – that in the name of sexual equality, women must hold their end up and be assertive, declamatory, unashamed – found its way into the affirmative and enthusiastic consent initiatives.

Critics then and now – Katie Roiphe and Laura Kipnis among them – have worried about the sexual timidity and fear conjured within consent culture. I’m arguing instead that the current consent rhetoric has taken something from post-feminism’s positioning of sexual uncertainty and fear as abject – from its framing of sexual hesitation as belonging to history. To be a contemporary and empowered sexual subject in consent culture, one has to be able to speak one’s desires out loud with confidence. Silence does not belong with us here; it belongs to the past and to the abject female subject of yore.

from Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel

#tomorrow sex will be good again #katherine angel #rape culture #consent #consent culture #abjection #compulsory sexuality #quotes #s.a #image described #mac’s bookshelf #impurity culture

[f0restpunk]

Metropolis (1927)

#Metropolis #1927 #science fiction #sci-fi #retro sci-fi #retro science fiction #SF #speculative fiction #silent movies #classic cinema #Fritz Lang #robot #robots #abjection #black and white #b&w #black and white movie #black and white movies #b&w movie #b&w movies #now playing #Jeff Mills #techno

[emiliefitch]

“One of the key figures of abjection is the mother who becomes an abject at the moment when the child rejects her for the father who represents the symbolic order.”

“The world of the mother (a universe without shame) and the world of the father (a universe of shame)."

"Friends, Romans, Countrymen" (Yellowjackets dir. Daisy von Scherler Mayer) and "Horror and the Monstrous-Feminine" (an essay by Barbara Creed)

Yellowjackets + Monster Theory 5/?

#yellowjackets #yellowjackets edit #my yellowjackets edit #shauna shipman #shauna sadecki #callie sadecki #jeff sadecki #horror and the monstrous-feminine #barbara creed #monster theory #abjection #yellowjackets + monster theory

[thetremblingroofbeam]

#possession #1981 #Andrzej Żuławski #isabelle adjani #abjection

[bellemorte79]

The Abject in A Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones.

The abject status of Tyrion Lannister in his relationship with his father and sister (Cersei and Tywin).

His physical appearance is frequently used by his family to belittle and humiliate him. Tywin, in particular, is disdainful of Tyrion's physical disability and sees him as a stain on the Lannister family's reputation and his own personal curse.  He blames him for the death of his mother in childbirth, even though Tyrion is the only one that is completely blameless.  He did not ask to be brought into the world.  In one scene in A Clash of Kings, Tywin tells Tyrion, "You are an ill-made, spiteful little creature full of envy, lust, and low cunning." This shows how Tyrion's abject status is linked to his physical deformity, as well as his position within the Lannister family.

Cersei also uses Tyrion's abject status to undermine him, portraying him as weak and powerless. In A Storm of Swords, Cersei says of Tyrion, "He is a dwarf, a stunted twisted little monkey who's no fit consort for a queen." Cersei's use of animalistic language here further emphasizes Tyrion's abject status, as she portrays him as subhuman and less than fully human by representing him as a monkey.  This is similar to her father’s treatment of Tyrion in calling him a “creature.”  

Despite his family's efforts to marginalize and exclude him, Tyrion is a character who refuses to be defined by his abject status. He is highly intelligent and resourceful, and often uses his wit and cunning to outmaneuver his enemies. In A Clash of Kings, and on the show Game of Thrones in the Battle of the Blackwater, for example, he manages to repel an attack on King's Landing by using a hidden cache of wildfire to destroy a large portion of Stannis Baratheon's fleet.

By representing Tyrion as abject, Martin is able to highlight the often cruel and arbitrary nature of social hierarchies. Tyrion's exclusion from society is not based on anything he has done, but rather on factors outside of his control, such as his physical appearance and his family background. This serves as a critique of the unjust nature of social systems and the way in which they marginalize and exclude certain groups of people.

By portraying Tyrion as both abject and heroic, Martin is able to challenge the dominant narratives of heroism and villainy in fantasy literature. Instead of being a typical hero who embodies strength and perfection, Tyrion is a flawed and vulnerable character who is forced to navigate a hostile world in order to survive. Through his character, Martin is able to explore the complexities of power, politics, and identity, and to challenge readers' assumptions about what it means to be a hero or a villain.

Further Reading:

Young, J. R. (2021). Useful little men: George R. R. Martin's dwarfs as grotesque realists. Mythlore, 39(137), 77-95,77A

Felluga, D. (2011) "Modules on Kristeva: On the Abject." Introductory Guide to Critical Theory.  Purdue U.

#Tyrion Lannister #tywin lannister #cersei lannister #Game of thrones #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #the abject #julia kristeva #abjection #disability #dwarfism #physical disability #musings #academic discourse #george r r martin #grrm

[crippleprophet]

in the final stretch of my thesis & wondering if anybody happens to know of any work exploring embracing abjection from a crip perspective? tried to do a cursory search but was only turning up Crip Theory which obv i’m already citing lol. if not i think Stryker’s Performing Transgender Rage can certainly support a lot of weight so we’ll be okay 💕

#crip theory #disability studies #disability #cripple punk #cpunk #abject #abjection #mac.txt

[bantuotaku]

#jersey club music #jersey club #edm #jerseyclub #house music #dance music #electronic music #soundcloud #music #audry #abjection #spam text #the weekend #SoundCloud

[yngsuk]

A wound with blood and pus, or the sickly, acrid smell of sweat, of decay, does not signify death. In the presence of signified death—a flat encephalograph, for instance—I would understand, react, or accept. No, as in true theater, without makeup or masks, refuse and corpses show me what I permanently thrust aside in order to live. These body fluids, this defilement, this shit are what life withstands, hardly and with difficulty, on the part of death. There, I am at the border of my condition as a living being. My body extricates itself, as being alive, from that border. Such wastes drop so that I might live, until, from loss to loss, nothing remains in me and my entire body falls beyond the limit—cadere, cadaver.

Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection

#quote #julia kristeva #psychoanalysis #abjection #*ayden

[biblioklept]

Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory is an abject coming-of-age novel narrated by a teenage psychopath

Frank Cauldhame, the narrator of Iain Banks’s 1984 debut novel The Wasp Factory, is a teenage psychopath. Frank lives with his eccentric father on an island in rural Scotland. He is an unregistered person with “no birth certificate, no National Insurance number,” nothing to officially prove his existence. He enjoys this unofficial existence, patrolling his island, which he protects through…

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#abjection #Iain Banks #Reviews #riffs #The Wasp Factory

[vestigial0rgans]

!!!!! This is so good

#fatphobia #godard #abjection #on abjection #cahiers du cinema #jacques rivette

[f0restpunk]

Wanda (1970)

#mannequin #Wanda #1970 #movie #movies #cinema #cinephile #cinephile community #abjection #still life #still lives #70s #70s movies #70s aesthetic

[submarinerwrites]

no one on this website wants to acknowledge how early gothic novels were 1) largely written by queer men who 2) explicitly conflated queer desire with incest, cannibalism, idolatry, necrophilia, and outright monstrosity on PURPOSE because 3) there was no other way of expressing the way in which queerness operated in society. you simply cannot understand the mode of the gothic without that: it's about writing desires so unspeakable in then-contemporary society that they can truly only be expressed through the monstrous. but go off about the female and male gothic or whatever i guess. lol.

#im not bitter (lying) #literature #abjection #gothic #dark academia

[cockroacher]

#abjection #intimacy #Thinking about evidence a lot lately #and like it's all a crime scene you know #mine

[hoths]

i dont agree with everything julia kristeva has written but good god. she was right about milk skin

#abjection #h.txt