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MIRRORS:(IN/SEMI-)VISIBILITY, as a gay man/gayman:A psycho-socio-cultural framework to my experience of memory and (in/semi-)visibility

Posted on February 27, 2024 by decayetude

BY STEVEN BENSON. I am (mainly visible), in that I “out” myself in situations where other gay men think it “not relevant”{unpick THAT complexity…..that is another post, if I can be bothered…}. This can cause divisions between gay men: partners, … Continue reading →

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PANDEMONIUM, APOCALYPSE, ARMAGEDDON.YET ANOTHER LOCKDOWN;YET ANOTHER STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS, WITH SOME SURVIVAL TIPS:) BY STEVEN BENSON.

Posted on January 8, 2021 by decayetude

PANIC CALM(ish) There is a “SANCTUARY {sic} MAINTENANCE” van outside my new home. (the ABOVE-in pic- garden is outside my 80s home) AFFRONT LITIGATIOUS CRUEL BASTARDS;glad to be out of their property. [CALM] probably just a cleaner; or she works … Continue reading →

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QUEER;WHAT IS THIS WITH EXCLUDING GAY MEN, BISEXUALS AND LESBIANS? AN (SELF-HONEST)EXLORATION. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on November 5, 2020 by decayetude

Is it deliberate? Is it disingenuous? Is it (“just”, aka is that good enough?)not thought through/out? Am I being a GAY{sic} cis white man bemoaning being excluded/invisibilised, after years of being excluded/invisibilised/marginalised? Yes; and that does not make me queer … Continue reading →

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FREEDOM: WRITTEN ON FORMING AN LGBTQ CREATIVE WRITING GROUP.A (SORT OF) POEM. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 27, 2015 by decayetude

I was blocked, I was locked; I wrote re Decay. I sub Limated. I discoursed on Queer Theory and Gay Studies. —————————————————————– But I wrote little About ME, Directly. I obfuscated. All this was/is Good; all Creative; I am not … Continue reading →

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RE-ENVISIONNING:MICHAEL PONTI AND SEBALD. INSPIRED BY SEBALD’S ESSAY ON JAN PETER TRIPP IN “A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY”(TRANS.CAITLING, 2013).BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 22, 2013 by decayetude

RE-EN VISIONNING: “Additions” “Rotated a Fraction Out of Kilter”; “Tonal Shades Altered”; “Interventions Deviations and Differences”…. These Phrases- Similarly Found in Deconstruction Ism and Queer Theory:- They could Equally Describe Sebald’s Writing Style; And PONTI’s Pianistic Peregrinations, His peripat Etic … Continue reading →

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LIMINALITY; SOME DEFINITIONS AND CONNOTATIONS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 3, 2013 by decayetude

1.A THRESHOLD, sometimes called transition rites,originally from anthropology, in relation to (often religious/spiritual) rituals: ie the phase at which a participant in the ritual stands on the threshold(the point of liminality/liminal space)between a previous way of establishing, for instance, their … Continue reading →

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NEGOTIATING SAFER SPACES; A POEM(OF SORTS!). BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on May 3, 2013 by decayetude

Sitting in A camp (Or is it Just kitsch?) {Going by the Decor} Cafe, In the Boho heart of Liverpool: I am Wondering How safe It is… I don’t Feel I am to be Walloped (Physically or Emotionally), But there is … Continue reading →

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WHY CAMP IS QUEER.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on April 6, 2013 by decayetude

A. EXAMPLES OF CAMP IN HUYSMANS I am reading Huysmans’ “Against Nature”(translated Baldick,1959).I would like to tease out, via this text, the links between camp and queer(in all its senses-see these postshttps://towardsutopia.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/queerin-its-sense-of-not-solely-relating-to-sexual-orientationin-literature-a-creative-explorationclarification-of-what-it-means-to-me-by-steven-benson/ and https://towardsutopia.wordpress.com/2012/11/09/queer-part-2-queer-in-its-sexual-orientation-and-gender-senseincluding-my-personal-involvementon-a-local-levelin-the-fight-for-lgbt-equality-by-steven-benson/ ) There is obviously also a historical trajectory which … Continue reading →

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CAMP IS POLITICAL AND SUBVERSIVE.BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on March 26, 2013 by decayetude

I state my argument against Susan Sontag(“Notes on Camp”, 1964, collected in “Against Interpretation”), who says:”camp sensibility is disengaged, depoliticised-or at least apolitical”[which I take to mean politically neutral] We must , of course, take account of the fact that she was … Continue reading →

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