Desire is involved with the not yet and, at times, the not anymore. In many desire-based texts there is a ghostly, remnant quality to desire, its existence not contained to the body but still derived of the body. Desire is about longing, about a present that is enriched by both the past and the future. It is integral to our humanness. — Eve Tuck
Through most of my life I would have interpreted the growth of the prison system and the diminution of the commitment to public education as evidence of how California had "changed." Only recently did I come to see them as the opposite, evidence of how California had "not changed," and to understand "change" itself as one of the culture's most enduring misunderstandings about itself. — Joan Didion (1934-2021)
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose,
And nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free,
— Kris Kristofferson
VEXICON drifts freely among the public Lexicon: signals from the edge of center, 2020-2021. VEXICON 4: Eugene Oregon Jul-Dec 2021. Previous VEXICONICS on this blog: Oct 9 2020, Jan 25 2021, Jul 2 2021. In ordinary revelation truth be told.
NOTES
— In memory of Joan Didion (1934-2021). Above excerpt from Where I Was From (2003)
— Eve Tuck, from Suspending Damage in Harvard Educational Review (2009) evetuck.com
— Kris Kristofferson. According to the Rolling Stone, Kristofferson was inspired to write “Me And Bobby Mcgee” after seeing Federico Fellini’s 1954 film La Strada, Italian for "the road.”
And the time will come when you see we're all one
And life flows on within you and without you
— George Harrison
