She Continues
I’ll share a couple of photos here with you. I’ve been trying to scribble into journals for ages. Here in the first photo, you can see a motley collection. The leftmost six are old magical journals from mostly the ’90s, and most of them are not full. I got most of those little journals at […] … Continue reading…Marking Time, Counting Books
John Austin is famous in language studies for articulating a working theory of performative utterances. Basically, performative utterances represent instances of speech and writing that enact something, that do something. For example, when we promise to do something— I promise to take out the garbage. I promise I won’t tell anyone. I promise to tell […] … Continue reading…Performative Language & Ritual Structure
I’m going to talk about corrupting sorcery here, I suppose. I really don’t want to use terms like black magic or nigromancy or anything like that because there’s too much uncritical cultural baggage there. And I’m going to get at this through the Scottish Play. In Macbeth, the play mediates and frames how we experience […] … Continue reading…Weird Sisters, Political Theater