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Theory makes you desire mastery: you hope that theoretical reading will give you the concepts to organize and understand the phenomena that concern you. But theory makes mastery impossible, not only because there is always more to know, but, more specifically and more painfully, because theory is itself the questioning of presumed results and the assumptions on which they are based. The nature of theory is to undo, through a contesting of premisses and postulates, what you thought you knew, so the effects of theory are not predictable. You have not become master, but neither are you where you were before. You reflect on your reading in new ways. You have different questions to ask and a better sense of the implications of the questions you put to works you read.

Jonathan Culler, Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction
(via ecrituria)

confessionsbritishroyals:

There is a reason royals don’t show PDA (along with them being old
school and private about there lives) it draws attention away from the
work. Every headline on this tour is about them touching each other or
lovingly looking into each other’s eyes. What is a dubbo, what is there
plight, what’s happening with there people. I don’t know because of
BANANA BREAD. Your job is not to be cute. It’s to bring attention to
things so people can help/support those issues. Your constant touching
and cuddling under umbrellas is not modernizing the family or bringing
them into the 21st century, it’s DISTRACTING! They need tot stop acting
like teenagers in there first relationship and grow up. Your marriage is
also a job it time you start doing it. Maybe if you would have stopped
for 10 seconds to think about that before you got married you would have
known it’s not the job you wanted. STEP UP, OR STEP OUT!

‘Let the People See’ is a timely book about the fragility of collective memory and about the courage and persistence of journalists — particularly black journalists — some of whom risked their lives in 1955 to get the facts of the Emmett Till story before the public. Most of all though, ‘Let the People See’ is a vivid reminder of just how easy it is for people not to see things they’d rather not see.

Book critic Maureen Corrigan, reviewing Let The People See, about Emmett Till’s murder and legacy (via nprfreshair)

I think that the key thing to understand about Bolsonaro is that he really comes not from this modern ‘alt-right’ movement of the type of Donald Trump or Nigel Farage or Marine Le Pen, but the Cold War far right that carried out enormous atrocities in the name of fighting domestic communism, which is what Bolsonaro believes his primary project to be. He recently vowed to cleanse the country of left-wing opposition, which he sees as a communist front. And so, the threat and the ideology is far more extreme than anything in the democratic world.

Journalist and Intercept co-founder Glenn Greenwald, speaking on Democracy Now! Monday about the election of far-right Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil. (via democracynow)

royal-confessions:

“I don’t care that Meghan is not really the self-made woman some people make her out to be. No one is purely self-made. We all had help, like parents or someone else paying the tuition at the top notch school, or a relative getting us an ‘in’ to a certain industry: an internship or even just an interview, a foot in the door. What I dislike is her not acknowledging those who helped her. Some real gratitude and humility would be nice. Instead, everyone in her past is apparently a villain.“ – Submitted by Anonymous

countesscuriosity:

worldandeverythinginbetween:

bookgeekroyalist:

“Prince Charles has paid tribute to his eldest grandson Prince George in a new BBC documentary which airs next month. Standing in an arboretum at Birkhall, his Scottish estate, Charles says: “This is George’s wood.”

He motions to dozens of different tree varieties which were planted when George was born five years ago. “As I get older, all I really long for is to plant trees,” the future King added. “I hope it will be quite amusing for George, as they grow up, and he grows up.”

– Hello!

Cute

lackadaisycats:

A 20th century revue, as performed by Ivy Pepper.  

The intended horizontal format is here. It’s got some flow that way. Reformatting for tumblr turned out to be a bit awkward.

If anyone’s interested, I’ll add some notes to this post about the dances, art styles and fashions depicted here. 

(The 60s are doubled up because they changed so much from one end to the other and I couldn’t decide what to focus on.)

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Nothing should surprise me with Ms. Markle anymore but tonight’s outfit has well and truly surpassed any and all of my already very low expectations. How on earth is a mini dress (see: long vest) appropriate for any formal occasion, let alone one attended by so-called royalty? And as if the back-arching and hand-grabbing wasn’t enough, we’re also having to endure the very rude act of her putting her hands in her pockets! Far out!!!

anonymoushouseplantfan:

I’m old enough to remember when her fans said she would never wear a Hamilton-style miniskirt to an official event. Oops.