alyssa @alyssa@cat.family

@aescling unrelated but i got a tumblr post for you https://r0achlezbian.tumblr.com/post/686872577305624576/talkative-cats-are-the-backbone-of-society-when

@Lady fortunately, in this case, even if i definitely didn't manage to understand everything, i did manage to get out of it what i was looking for (an understanding of what he was saying by that one line)

@Lady in this case that's very apparent, since i think he's explicitly relying on certain claims within the Rousseau text he's analyzing in his own argument about the text (and about broader points). (this textbook suggested i read for myself the part of Of Grammatology where he said (in Spivak's translation anyway) "There is nothing outside the text")

also also the trouble with reading critics is that it's too easy to just interpret them as saying things i already agree with when they are maybe saying something subtly different.

also the trouble with reading critics is that Derrida says a lot of complicated things I don't fully follow

perhaps this is arguably the case with pretty much all writing and its sources and influences, but it's a lot more apparent in the criticism case

the trouble with reading critics is that they spend their time writing criticism of particular texts and then i read that and then i feel like to get the most out of the criticism i need to go read the thing they're criticizing.

nonetheless, a good horror film.

The film deploys the cliché of sexual deviance as the sin of the aristocracy. Indeed, it presents all the horror as deriving from that original sin. There's a brief moment that acknowledges that deviance itself as having an origin, but it's brushed past. I think a Crimson Peak that developed that question further would have been more interesting to me, although I'd still have had mixed feelings.

i have mixed feelings about certain elements, but this was the better done film compared to Mimic (this is perhaps his second horror film per se).

to be clear, this is not a conflict of values between me and the film but the explicit textual problem the protagonist is dealing with rn

oh no, the tragic circumstance in which there's an aristocrat but he's charming.

@pan i am now lying down so that problem is less a problem

@pan hi pandora i'm lyssa and i paced too much