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“but there are new suns”: Drew Spielvogel’s Destiny hope despair alistair
-Phillip Pyle
We approach our destination like an asymptote. The horizon lowers, the clouds drop, the vibrations stabilize. It’s right ahead of us, the shimmering object promising the realization of our deepest desires.
We’ll never get there and we know that, but it’s better to delude ourselves for now. To reveal the impossibility of that object would only reveal the impossibility of life. We’ll ultimately make these drives again and again, either settling into the depressive doldrum of the route’s ceaselessness or crashing off the course entirely.
Normality and habit can often be violent, not only in mundane ways. We don’t need queer theory to tell us this, but its practitioners do help us to see potential circumventions. Muñoz tells us that “the here and the now is a prison house,” Sedgwick that there is “no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the…
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“but there are new suns”: Drew Spielvogel’s Destiny hope despair alistair
-Phillip Pyle
We approach our destination like an asymptote. The horizon lowers, the clouds drop, the vibrations stabilize. It’s right ahead of us, the shimmering object promising the realization of our deepest desires.
We’ll never get there and we know that, but it’s better to delude ourselves for now. To reveal the impossibility of that object would only reveal the impossibility of life. We’ll ultimately make these drives again and again, either settling into the depressive doldrum of the route’s ceaselessness or crashing off the course entirely.
Normality and habit can often be violent, not only in mundane ways. We don’t need queer theory to tell us this, but its practitioners do help us to see potential circumventions. Muñoz tells us that “the here and the now is a prison house,” Sedgwick that there is “no unthreatened, unthreatening conceptual home for the…
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