An episode in which we encounter a bloody thigh and a sense of triumph. We chat about the struggle to maintain and transform personal identity, narratives of love and monsters, demystification of all kinds, and shame of all kinds.
Content warning: brief mention of sexual assault and violence.
“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 8
Logo by Tynan Kyle Lewis
Music: Amnesia by Ghost Beatz
Links:
Maya Deren film, "At Land"
Rebecca Solnit's book, Men Explain Things to Me
Michaela Coel's TV show, "I May Destroy You"
Hannah Wilke
bell hooks' book, "All About Love"
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 eight; period blood; menstruation; alternative masculinity; rituals; female monsters; art monsters; Maya Deren; Griffin Dunne; transformation; shame; shamelessness; Hannah Wilke; not knowingess; staying with the trouble; artist; nothing precedes intertwinedness; myth of the artist; building blocks of truth; categories boxes; letters; form; shame and love; personal/universal; owning what happens to me; defaults; weaponised critique; choicelessness; compasses; reporting on experience; denim; finding your voice; misbehave or die
