A Big Fan Of Pansies – QRG Gets The Madame Arcati Treatment

I am utterly honoured to have been interviewed by the inimitable Madame Arcati this week. Not unlike me, she is a bit of a trouble-maker, a character and a lover of the literary arts. Arcati asked me about my recent ‘outing’ by Paul Burston and Julie Bindel, a voodoo spell they arranged for me, and my interest [...]

To Foucault, A Daughter: Review By Mark Simpson

This is a review by Mark Simpson of my novella Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. He took it down from his blog in a fit of pique so I am putting it here for safekeeping. And because, neither Metrodaddy nor anyone else, can erase the past. ——————————————— Reg­u­lar vis­i­tors to this blog will be famil­iar with [...]

Ed Miliband Staring Into Space

http://visualcultureblog.com/2012/01/staring-into-space/ This is an amazing photo of Ed Miliband (UK leader of the Labour Party) staring into space, at a visit to a school. The blog, Visual Culture have analysed it better than I could, so I recommend reading their post here. It reminds me of Ed’s brother David, being attacked by confetti and caught on [...]

Obscenity Discourse

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2012/jan/06/michael-peacock-obscenity-trial?newsfeed=true In an unusual move, the Guardian, the ‘liberal voice’ of Britain, which is normally the feminist voice, and the puritanical voice, has come out in favour of a man who sells hardcore S and M m/m porn. Why this strange turnaround? Well, if we look a bit more closely at their discourse, we can [...]

The Myth of Male Power

I had an argument on twitter yesterday – call it a discussion- about gender and power and ‘oppression’. My position, that men do not have ‘more power’ than women, and that women are not ‘more oppressed’ than men, as a group, was laughed out of town. I was told that I was ignoring the ‘facts’ [...]

Foucault’s Brain

A huge sculpture of Michel Foucault’s head has been incorporated into the construction of a Dutch Nursing Home: ‘The building of the De Burcht residential nursing home has the form of a panopticon. From the open well on the first floor there is an all-round view of the galleries on the upper floors where the [...]

What I Hate About Paglia

This is an article by Camille Paglia about Michel Foucault and the Post-structuralists called ‘What I hate about Foucault’. I am not going to critique it yet. I just want you to read it yourselves, and tell me what you think. I never met or saw Foucault in the  flesh. (He died in 1984.) My [...]

The Bald Fact About Compulsory Heterosexuality

We have been having an interesting discussion about ‘privilege’ – and the delusion that an individual can ‘possess’ privilege as an innate, personal trait, and then use it against specific groups of people- here at QRG HQ. http://quietgirlriot.wordpress.com/2011/08/27/the-privilege-delusion/ In the light of our discussions I returned to Mark Simpson’s recent post, about a YouGOv (UK) [...]

My Beautiful Fossils

This is a cartoon featuring images of (l-r)  Levi Strauss, Jacques Lacan, Michel Foucault and Roland Barthes. My beautiful fossils. It might be Zeeland, Maker, Halperin, Simpson. ‘It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making’. [...]

Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls #1 Madness Is Childhood

I could not keep my patient QRG readers waiting any longer. So here is the first of three-parts of Foucault’s Daughter, aka Scribbling On Foucault’s Walls. It is available FREE on smashwords: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/70119 I am busy trying to get an e-publisher at the moment, so if I am successful the whole novel/la (it is quite [...]