THEORY OF SCATTERCORIES

 
To continue with this gimmick... this is to illustrate the contrast of how my mind has been poisoned since the summer. I did this almost unconsciously when I got my scattergories back today, looking at the list on the outside of the box on the T......

LIST 4:

1.) HEROES
Judith Butler. heroine is a drug not a woman. we don't need a linguistic category to perform a social one into being.

2.) GIFTS/PRESENTS
Mauss himself! Though he has really only given us an obligation to give back...

3.) TERMS OF ENDEARMENT
 anti-oedipal?

4.) KINDS OF DANCES
"how can we know the dancer from the dance?"

5.) THINGS THAT ARE BLACK
"black" is contextual, an empty signifier - like all discourse

6.) VEHICLES
ideology

7.) THINGS FOUND IN AN ARENA
 lions, tigers, bears, and objectified women subjected to an imagined male gaze.

8.) THINGS PEOPLE GOSSIP ABOUT
firstly: things about which people gossip. secondly: who are these people? thirdly, is "gossip" a valid speech genre?

9.) COLORS
 i don't know... I'm more of a humanities person. something about electrons and waves, no? how does it resonate with YOU, reader?

10.) THINGS IN A SOUVENIR SHOP
commodity fetishes

11. ITEMS IN YOUR PURSE/WALLET
my 2 cents: again, why these gendered / categories... what damn DIFFERAANCE does it make!?!

12. WORLD RECORDS
what field of knowledge legitimates these kinds of hierarchies of value, really?