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“Something different is disclosed in the drunkenness of passion: the landscape of the body... These landscapes are traversed by paths which lead sexuality into the world of the inorganic. Fashion itself is only another medium enticing it still more deeply into the universe of matter.”
― The Arcades Project
― The Arcades Project
“As a result, gender is not to culture as sex is to nature; gender is
also the discursive/cultural means by which “sexed nature” or “a natural
sex” is produced and established as “prediscursive,” prior to culture,
a politically neutral surface on which culture acts”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
also the discursive/cultural means by which “sexed nature” or “a natural
sex” is produced and established as “prediscursive,” prior to culture,
a politically neutral surface on which culture acts”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“People Who Do Things exceed my endurance;
God, for a man that solicits insurance!”
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God, for a man that solicits insurance!”
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“If Moscow rules meant watch your back, London rules meant cover your arse. Moscow rules had been written on the streets, but London rules were devised in the corridors of Westminster, and the short version read: someone always pays. Make sure it isn’t you. Nobody knew that better than Jackson Lamb. And nobody played it better than Di Taverner.”
― Slow Horses
― Slow Horses
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