ivan beck

liberating mideologies and learning how to love

Category: Not a blog

  • it could be that simple

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    but first – there are desires of suicide and death in this post. ok at first, it wasn’t the sea so much as the dark. quiet. expansive. inhale. exhale. all alone. connected. taking off my glasses my world shrinks. even more. an unstoppable relentless covid reality. blurred shapes and gradients of light, fuzzy boundaries of…

  • and so, i am more than trans

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    Khanna’s Visceral Logics of Decolonization is a philosophical work that is predicated on race, on skin colour, and is going deeper then what is on the surface to get at the role of affect and to challenge the racialized colonized to sit with the cognitive dissonance by paying attention to internal sensations that arise when…

  • handheld broomsticks

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    i’ve learned that if i write in run on sentences i can out-pace the interruptions. As long as i am writing, there is a single stream of thought that may include things that are not needed to be included because i have to keep writing or there are too many ideas which makes me wonder…

  • Not a blog

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    This (therefore) will not have been a blog. i borrowed that sentence, the only full one you have read in this post so far, from Jacques Derrida. it is, this first sentence that is now one of two on this page, almost identical to the opening line in Jacques Derrida’s not-a-preface section, Hors Livre: Outwork,…

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