I had surgery yesterday and as I was leaving the hospital, I started thinking about the following essay by Donna Harraway, a feminist theorist that I read a million years ago in a land far, far away. I just started re-reading it, but loved the following quote. It works on many different levels for my politics and my activism. From the Cyborg Manifesto.

Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour and serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method…

I’m also reading a fantastic essay sent to me by my friend Bex from New York about slash called “The Digital Get Down.” Bex turned me on to this whole new world of literature and the theory that goes along with it… Fun stuff. The author goes places that I only glimpsed. Once I recover from surgery, there will be more on this topic. The pain meds have been making me a little fuzzy…