#sedgwick

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I’ve been meaning to make art for this show for SO LONG

Saw a talk put on by Tracy Butler and Fable Siegel and it was like my love came back full force

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425 W 2nd Street, Sedgwick, Colorado

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Owl in flight painting I did a while back 😄

https://www.edartstudios.com/gaming-mousepads/p/bright-flight

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The Sedgwick Horror (A True Haunting) My PARANORMAL Experiences | Part 2/2

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Pink Vintage Movie Posters 🌸

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Sedgwick Guth phographed by hollywood_bruisers

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Lou Reed at Andy Warhols Factory, 1966.

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“After she broke up with Andy and the Dylan thing fell through, Edie desperately wanted to be a model. She was incredible at the time… not unlike Twiggy, but much sexier, much more of an All-American girl. She was the total essence of the fragmentation, explosion, uncertainty and madness that we all experienced in the Sixties. The more provocative you were, the more of a hero you became.”

- Joel Schumacher

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andy warhol, lou reed, and edie sedgwick, 1965

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[ID: Article excerpt titled: Is All Criticism Paranoid?

Now that we’ve seen paranoid reading in action, I want to return to Sedgwick’s original essay for context. First of all, she is not dismissing critique in general. We’re allowed to disagree and discuss texts. Instead, Sedgwick argues that criticism has become synonymous with paranoid reading — that we can’t imagine other strategies of criticism: “In a world where no one need be delusional to find evidence of systemic oppression, to theorize out of anything but a paranoid critical stance has come to seem naive, pious, or complaisant.”

Sedgwick isn’t as much condemning paranoid reading as she is offering an alternative, because the practice has subsumed all other strategies. She also isn’t saying that paranoid reading reaches incorrect conclusions: “I am saying that the main reasons for questioning paranoid practices are other than the possibility that their suspicions can be delusional or simply wrong…They represent a way, among other ways, of seeking, finding, and organizing knowledge. Paranoia knows some things well and others poorly.” She compares a lack of diversity of critical approaches to a “shallow gene pool” that can’t react effectively to change.

Because criticism as a field is rooted in paranoid reading, Sedgwick argues, it is dismissive of reparative reading, seeing it as “merely aesthetic” or “merely reformist,” as if amplifying pain is the only way to effect change. Reparative reading doesn’t mean denying systems of oppression. It seeks pleasure because it recognizes that the environment is hostile and will not provide that pleasure itself. It’s also empathetic, recognizing others as worthy of love and care — which is why reparative reading can see where a text can be useful to other people even if it’s not personally. For example, there are many queer books I’ve read that I found stereotypical or simplified, but I can recognize that other readers may find the same story affirming. /]

When people on Tumblr say “Be critical about the media you consume,” it’s important to understand that what they really mean is “Apply a paranoid reading to everything.”

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𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐝𝐢𝐞 𝐒𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐰𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐲 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧 (𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟓)

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Edie Sedgwick, photographed by Terry Stevenson, 1967