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Please Explain What A Theory Bitch Is

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Medea Zero

20:01 / 15.12.01

thanks to the king of theory bitch monikers, i have a theory bitch sticker on my tobacco tin and on my mac. although i'm reading through these posts, and i'm wondering if i'm more a praxis bitch...

the connection of sex leather [or leather pants] and theory bitch stuff is kinda amusing. yeah, we're all beyond the mire of endless foucauldian analysis and the accompanying leather pants; or are we? i've been reading discipline and punish and i'm not so excited any more ... right now, i'm enjoying my five buck cowboy boots, the m/s dynamic of me and all that theory/praxis, and salivating over guattari's molecular revolutions, hardt's labor of dionysus, a whole shitload of agamben... and what about jean-luc nancy? someone tell me he is *not* worthy of all kinds of slavish theory bitching...

so, what's a theory bitch? is it a verb or noun? i dunno but its the only thing that makes sense lately [is that a pun? maybe].

Jackie Susann

22:20 / 16.12.01

quote: Leather is never passe. You theory bitches can't accessorise for shit, either...

You've got to love a man who considers pants an accessory.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

22:20 / 16.12.01

'Praxis bitch'!

Sooooo cool.

Can I be 'Immanence Bitch'?

Or an 'immanence gris'?

matsya

03:49 / 19.12.01

when I called Crunchy (crunchy? where's montezboy? or jackie sussann?) a theory bitch, I was conflating the idea of a "leatherbitch", a leather-clad dom type, with the fact that crunchy has a particular kind of writing that expostulates heavily on his cultural theory leanings, as evinced by his studentship and so on. Crunchy ran with the ball and knocked up some exxo zines to that effect, smashing hardcore erotica and political theory up against each other.

mighty tasty, it was.

m.

Disco is My Class War

07:30 / 19.12.01

I should mention at this juncture that I do in fact have a pair of leather pants. And I am very bad at accessorising; for which I obviously deserve a big smack.

Polly Trotsky

15:33 / 19.12.01

So one can recognize the theory bitch by looking for leather pants and a watch?

Ethan Hawke

15:45 / 19.12.01

what are "exxo zines"?

matsya

01:02 / 20.12.01

exxo = excellent
zines = self-published magaziney type things, usually small print run, idosyncratic editorial style, black and white photocopied. though that's just a generalised guide.

mwah

m.

Matthew Fluxington

02:23 / 20.12.01

I think that in the movie version of Theory Bitch, the title character should be played by Thora Birch.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

07:36 / 20.12.01

Hah. I know what you're up to: you just want to sleep with Randy Oppenheim.

Medea Zero

09:10 / 31.12.01

nope, theory bitches don't wear a watch. we're just so beyond those kinda temporal spaces. yeah.

[this is my excuse for being late. constantly.]

the question is: would thora look any good in leathers??

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