sonofapritch:

ghostorballoon replied to your post: “personal context”

Why’s that?

“[my car] perfectly expresses my personal context”

fuck grading

That’s a pretty bad sentence, but somatic subjectivity is way crucial in a lot of poetics. Here’s a quote from DiPietra and Leto’s Waveform, which is recent but already kind of a thing within disability poetics:

“I have aligned myself with an avant-garde poetics— a realm of writing in which identity disappears or is ejected, is seen as aesthetically inferior or passe— at the same time that I have come to identify most strongly as a disabled person who has a set of political, professional, social, and personal concerns relevant to that disability.”

Being able to distance oneself from bland sentimentality or strictly normative subjectivity is fine, but the prerogative to write off the importance of context and “feeling” is one of profound privilege in certain ways, going all the way back to Philo Judaeus. It’s an easy inroad to facile universality— Cecilia Vicuna’s Samborami. 

I mean, duh, it isn’t the sort of poetics you’re necessarily interested and probably not the sort you’d have much use in writing, but I feel uneasy about writing it off entirely.

(Source: hookedonsemiotics)