Category Archives: queer hermeneutics

READING AND/THEN WRITING.A DIVAGATORY EXPLORATION OF THE PROCESS.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on July 25, 2020 by decayetude

To read is to write (sooner or later)……   I have got into a habit of buying intriguingly entrancing-appearing tomes on subjects clustered around: QUEER Walking/peregrinatory, not in a direct line, loitering; divagating { I also experience diverticular disease/diverticulitis….}; periphrastic … Continue reading →

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I HOARD;I COLLECT; I RESCUE THE REMNANTS/THE PRECIOUS THINGS. THEREFORE, I AM. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 16, 2020 by decayetude

A POEM! {FREE VERSE….ish } I Collect ALL things; I represent multitudes (of Lps and books and cds); I am reparative; I give all these phantasmagorical lovely things their rightful place in eternity; I save the traces of precarious capitalism. … Continue reading →

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THE PLOT THICKENS. THE GAS-LIGHTER AND THE HERO, AND OTHERS.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 12, 2020 by decayetude

GASLIGHTING-DEFINITION “In politics[edit] Columnist Maureen Dowd was one of the first to use the term in the political context.[30][31] She described the Bill Clinton administration’s use of the technique in subjecting Newt Gingrich to small indignities intended to provoke him to make public complaints that “came across … Continue reading →

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NAVIGATING MY OWN (WRITING-)LANDSCAPE.SOME STRUCTURE….BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on May 24, 2020 by decayetude

PREMISES/(META)THEMES: How wide(loose baggy monster?)/narrow(er) do I want the scope of my putative, yet-to-be-written athwart and/or post Covid narrative? Am I lost and wandering within my own narrative; or by way of a dual(third and first person) narrative process?(just as … Continue reading →

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TOWARDS AN UNKNOWN REGION:A POST/ASLANT-COVID (AUTO)NARRATIVE(CONTD).AND ALL-ABOUT-DATING…BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 9, 2020 by decayetude

“Next morning, all geography lay snowbound”(Leif Enger, Peace like a River”) “Flotsam from the city’s shipwreck” (“Bookshops, Carrion, 2013) I am also-citationally-indebted to the opening sentence of Bernhard “Concrete”(1982); whilst I am not (currently) writing a biography of Felix Mendelssohn(though … Continue reading →

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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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WRITING EXERCISE. MIGHT BECOME MORE….30 EVENTS IN MY LIFE; IN BULLET SNAP-SHOTS(with brief marginalia).THE FIRST TWENTY(might not get further) BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 2, 2020 by decayetude

Can I link this to my “loose baggy monster”{H.James}post/across Covid putative (ever-delayed) visitor-in-his-own-land narrative; is this just one-step too freaky???…. ____________________________________________________________ HERE GOES: 30? wtf…….In BULLET points? wtf….my life (hitherto) on a menu I was born [TRIGGER; too traumatic] 2. … Continue reading →

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WRITING EXERCISE…. AND MORE.WHAT MAKES MY METRONOME WORK AND NOT WORK(“RIDERS”/”DRIVERS”).HOW CAN I USE THIS IS IN MY POST-COVID UNREAL/REAL OLD/NEW REALITY SERIES OF NARRATIVES? .BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 22, 2020 by decayetude

Let’s see where this goes….. As gay men, we made/make our (ever-changing/growing/receding{sometimes, in Covid time; occasionally expanding even then/now}REALITY…. to various degrees, depending on various macro and micro life /geographical configurations(and there is some choice in it, if we are … Continue reading →

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FIFTEEN DAYS LATER.THE VIRUS THAT DARES NOT SPEAK ITS NAME.(another)PROLEGOMENON TO PARALLEL NARRATIVES.FOR MYSELF AND THE CREATIVE WRITING GROUP.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 20, 2020 by decayetude

This is by way of a jump-start to my contrapuntal stories about a man in a post-covid landscape where un/sur-reality has become the new reality( we know/experience that bit!); but where the old/”old” reality becomes the new un/sur-reality….by some peculiar … 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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