05 July 2009
queer birds
From here.
This Pride outfit, an amazing Tippi Hedren in The Birds, reminded me that Edleman in No Future makes much of these animals:
'Though a single gull had already struck Melanie on the forehead the day before, the choice of a children's party for this first fully choreographed attack suggests the extent to which the birds take aim at the social structures of meaning that observances like the birthday party serve to secure and enact: take aim, that is, not only at children and the sacralization of childhood, but also at the very organization of meaning around structures of subjectivity that celebrate, along with the day of one's birth, the ideology of reproductive necessity.', No Future, p. 121.
