
The Argonauts

It doesn’t matter to me if both of these men are mad. Their voices still have clarity.
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gained an outsized faith in articulation itself as its own form of protection.
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as if anything that came out of language could make language tremble.”
Maggie Nelson • The Argonauts
People seem hungry, above all else, for permission, and
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“pluralize and specify.”
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‘This is where you end and others begin.’
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Rather, it is the shared, crushing understanding of what it means to live in a patriarchy.
Maggie Nelson • The Argonauts
Winnicott notably describes “the primitive agonies” not as lacks or voids, but as substantives: “fruits.”
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But really justice has no coordinates, no teleology.