Simon Taylor
reassignment, fa-afine, mahu, kathoey, xanith, hijara, hsiang ku, berdache & the faecal child
– etching by de Bry, “Balboa’s Dogs Attacking a Group of Panamanian Sodomites”
Being a berdache – that is, a man who behaved much like a woman, or occasionally a woman who behaved like a man, in a Native American tribe – was not soft option. As well as customarily providing non-berdaches
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repetition, rendition, recognition, representation, return, rerun: torture
Repetition was key to the representations of hell our teachers unveiled to us. Without repetition, the eternal dimension would have seemed flat and less frightful. – Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana, pp. 172-173
Bene-Deleuze’s theatre of subtraction (re: Carmelo Bene’s production of Shakespeare’s Richard III) -1
Shakespeare était auteur, acteur et chef de troupe. Dans sa vie lui-même a été un spectacle. A présent il est un texte. Il faut être un beau salaud pour lui refuser l’infidélité qui lui est due
– Carmelo Bene in an interview
Deleuze’s commentary, in “Un manifeste de moins”
shortly before the sacking of the palace
It is all so ugly. … I would much rather join those who prefer to float on their backs for a while, drifting on the ocean with their eyes turned toward heaven, and who then go down with a little prayer. …it is not in my nature to tilt against the
regarding needlepoint
today I am picking a cold minority, to bring to your attention this master of needlepoint, who is equally able in all the fine digital disciplines. Please take advantage of the new and entirely justified link to his space and his sewing circle in the blogrole opposite and, remember, keep