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“Hairspray is the only really devious movie I ever made. The musical based on it is now being performed in practically every high school in America—and nobody seems to notice it’s a show with two men singing a love song to each other that also encourages white teen girls to date black guys. Pink Flamingos was preaching to the converted. But Hairspray is a Trojan horse: it snuck into Middle America and never got caught. You can do the same thing.”
― Make Trouble
― Make Trouble
“The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.”
― The Ticket That Exploded
― The Ticket That Exploded
“You can find out more about the nervous system and gain more control over your reaction by using a tape recorder than you could find out sitting twenty years in the lotus posture.”
― The Ticket That Exploded
― The Ticket That Exploded
“Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.”
― Heretics of Dune
― Heretics of Dune
“I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.”
― Memoirs of Hadrian
― Memoirs of Hadrian
Reading Ethnography
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The title says it all. We read ethnographies and write about them.
Ethnography Shelf
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Inspired by all the different ethnographies we in the Cultural Anthropology Programme at Victoria University of Wellington are reading, we have starte ...more
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