Category Archives: Foucault

THE BATTLES I FIGHT…WRITING EXERCISE (and more?):GRADUALLY SLINKING TOWARDS THE POST/ASLANT COVID NARRATIVE(S).THE PRELUDE(BOOK, ABOUT 7).BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 3, 2020 by decayetude

PHOBIAS(other peoples’s): polite word for dislike(occasionally, hatred); sometimes, a fear:”Ohh, wtf, that might be ME; I might be secretly like THAT; I better be nasty to them….” HOMO TRANS BI CAMP NON-GENDER BINARY   WELFARE BENEFITS CLAIMANTS; economically poor people … Continue reading →

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(META) JOURNAL(LING). FOR MYSELF AND THE CREATIVE WRITING COURSE. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on February 24, 2020 by decayetude

What is it about these (semi)deserted railway stations- and, especially- those clinging to part/tiny use-that haunts and wracks me?…… If you read this blog and it bleaker comrade https://decayetude.wordpress.com/(the latter 10 years extant in May) You will garner a strong … Continue reading →

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MORITZ MOSZKOWSKI:A PAEAN. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on November 22, 2019 by decayetude

Moritz, you Gay-ify The dull World, with Your harmonic Twists and Turns.   I lOVE YOU; (And your Music); My fave F O R G O T T EN Composer.   Forsaken By the Musical Self-pro Claimed “Est-ab-lish-ment”. But NOT … Continue reading →

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“WOMAN ON THE EDGE OF TIME”(PIERCEY). WHY THIS IS SUCH A GREAT BOOK. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 30, 2014 by decayetude

This book will move you, engage you and shock you.   It is the only (vaguely) sci-fi book I have ever really enjoyed. It makes Le Guin’s “Left Hand of Darkness” pale into  (polemical) comparison. It SAVAGES, albeit advisedly so, … Continue reading →

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META POEM, inspired by John Irving, “In One person”.By Steven Benson

Posted on March 18, 2014 by decayetude

beginning to write a poem.. or something/some hybrid… I want to write A poem About a Novel.. Its not a Review; Its a Mish-mash (Multi-genre!). …………………………………………………………… Irving’s novel is about how a boy grows up in 50s/60s United States. He … Continue reading →

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“A BIT OF “THE OTHER”: CRITICAL THEORY IN 4 MINUTES. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on November 19, 2013 by decayetude

1.The idea of the “other” is used in POST-STRUCTURALIST  thought as an alternative to the STRUCTURALIST binary OPPOSITION: (eg. straight/gay; man/woman), which was seen as embedded in linguistic forms. Thus, Foucault, and , later, Feminist and Gender Theorists,and Queer Theorists,pointed out that … Continue reading →

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