bodies — posts

send a flood

"...what gets to me most about a musical is its celebratory force. celebration is different from victory. victory is a momentary binary outcome and dismisses the complexity of relations between forces. the celebration, on the other hand, lasts for a duration and intends not for resolution, but for expression. celebration is like the process of mourning, but joyfully..."

in this post i riff on musicals, and why i’m such a sucker for them. also, i touch upon what it’s like to go ‘off-script’ and to forge your own path within the somewhat cheesy, but sincere, context of a mixed relationship, which expresses, in large part, what mxdflz is about.

"fucking magic"

"...to think of 'mixed' as just another label that can be slapped onto a character description is to misunderstand it entirely, not to mention perpetuating a monoracial worldview. representation is disembodying, it's abstraction, it plays into identity politics. rather, what we're about is expression. and an expression is always embodied..."

blogDaniel ChenNovember 9, 2017mixed, remix, bodies, magic, identity, differenceComment

bodies break down

"decomposition is simultaneously recomposition. one break necessitates a re-connection elsewhere, and life will go on... until a body is no longer able to make connections that augments its capacity to endure. until it is no longer able to flow..."