Sublime

After all, Mukoma Byron had been an almost-perfect seed and the Western soil was ideal, rich, and nurturing. How, then, could such an experiment yield such rotten fruit? It was like a perfect recipe, full of the finest ingredients, that when prepared bears a poisonous repast.

We make the child serve as the image both of what we desire and of what is altogether outside desire.

success stories,

less to do with the affirmation or authentication of origins and ‘identities,’ and more to do with political practices and ethical choices.

but Twombly is working in a tradition that associates homosexuality with an ideal human freedom.”

inability to achieve idealized forms of erotic belonging is variously expressed as expectancy, deferral, lack, and as an inability to arrive, achieve, or actualize normative forms of belonging.

Is it the Internet that increases the risk of kids or is it kids that are increasing their risk?

But insofar as they congeal failed, carnal, ambivalent, and over- or hypermediated forms of intimate