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Hello, I am Mona Mona, and I built this blogging site to collect my writing from all around the web. I earned a Philosophy PhD from a top Continental Philosophy program in the United States, and I write as a feminist and phenomenologist philosopher about the philosophical foundations of collective life.
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And the story of Hope, a young whale.
“His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would...
Kathi Weeks on the interdependence between work and marriage in our capitalist patriarchal state.
In previous parts of this series, we saw how work is depoliticized when it is relegated to the private realm of individual choice. Working to politicize work in much the same ways that feminists have...
Thinking broadly about Linda Williams' piece on body genres (e.g., horror, porn, and melodrama), and the politics of representation, in preparation for Thursday's Feminist Theory session.
One of the big ideas in Linda Williams’s piece on “body genres” in film theory is that perversion should not be used as a pejorative term to condemn some sexualities over others, i.e., to condemn any...
Kathi Weeks shines a light on our modern work woes, running an analogy between work and marriage. In this piece, I present the carrot and the stick of it, subjugation and subjectification.
In previous parts of this series, we saw how work is depoliticized by being relegated to the private realm of individual choice. Working to re-politicize work, much like feminists politicized the...
Kathi Weeks shines a light on our modern work woes, running an analogy between work and marriage.
In the first part of this series, we explored how both work and marriage are framed as private, individual matters, even though the state actively structures and enforces both arrangements. We’re...
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