…intersectional critique has both intervened in the legal and capitalist structures that demand the fixity of the rights bearing subject and also reproduced the disciplinary demands of that subject formation.
(via elektrokardiogrammatology)
Reading things like this is becoming tiresome for me. I long for clear speech. I don’t mean to be picking elektrokardiogrammatology in particular here. I have spent years reading source materials at least this dense and polysyllabic—because I love what they are wrestling to help us see, and because of how they stretch my mind. I will almost certainly post quotes here with equally convoluted language in the future. However, I wonder if it is really necessary to write like this. Wouldn’t we be more likely to change the world if we reached a wider audience? When we fold in on ourselves by using a more and more inbred jargon, we make it harder and harder for the very people whose opinion, whose perception, we would like to be influencing to have any interest in what we are saying.
(via shrinkrants)