An episode in which we have a painful viewing experience. We chat about romanticized and realistic creative practice, the book and tv show’s respective relationships to theory, and Kraus’ creative oeuvre.
“Thinking-With” is a long-form, unpolished conversation. Join Cat Auburn and Kyle Lewis as they think-with different ideas and people in each season.
“Thinking-with” is a term from Donna Haraway's writing that Cat and Kyle enjoy working with. It acknowledges thinking as an interconnected process, and that who and what we use to think our thoughts with matters greatly. Consciously choosing which tools we use for thinking is key to enabling thoughts that can escape the confines of existing frameworks and systems of power.
Transcript of Episode 4
Logo by Tynan Kyle Lewis
Music: Amnesia by Ghost Beatz
Links:
Contrapoints episode on Incels
Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts
Vanalyne Green's film, "Trick or Drink"
Marilyn Freeman and Cinema Divina
Keywords:
Chris Kraus; I Love Dick; autotheory; Joey Soloway; Andrea Arnold; Kathryn Hahn; Kevin Bacon; Donna Haraway; Sylvère Lotringer; I Love Dick the book; I Love Dick episode four; pleasure/pain; stake setting; desire; control; Rashomon effect; critical theory: creative practice; Vanalyne Green; Maggie Nelson; addiction; confessional; art world; academia; Joan Hawkins; signifying chains; schizophrenia; not knowingess; staying with the trouble; nothing precedes intertwinedness; myth of the artist; building blocks of truth; categories boxes; letters; form; shame and love; artist; personal/universal; owning what happens to me; defaults; weaponised critique; choicelessness; compasses; reporting on experience; denim; finding your voice; misbehave or die
