Last October, I read Macbeth for the first time. I also watched many of its most famous film adaptations.
I decided to write an essay on substack about my thoughts on the Scottish Play.
Here's a summary of some (perhaps controversial) opinions 🧵
https://t.co/pmGsVxLFlh
we are in strange times where LGBT stories are practically everywhere, but truly queer stories are perhaps rarer across the arts than at any point since the late 60s.
The French folding buttery dough 1000 times to make the flakiest croissant is spiritually isomorphic to the Japanese folding steel 1000 times to make the strongest katana
whenever the female enters political propaganda as a figure she must always be erotiziced and she must be a slut, a succubus, a sexy seductress. no humanity is given to her.
I honestly hate gay dating standards so much. I haven’t read Deleuze and Guattari. I don’t go to salons all the time. I hardly ever can identify the Lacanian objet petit a. I read Kant and Russell. I prefer concrete notions. I don’t understand the semiotic triangle.