scattered thoughts on my thesis: melancholy, affirmation

Braidotti's critique of Butler's melancholia-- brings Deleuzean affirmation to bear on the question of sexual difference-- engaging virtual multiplicity w/regards to gender with an eye to Butler's use of melancholy in her theorizations of corporeality-- stop splitting "sexual difference" as an epochal question and questions of subjective bodily becomings-- is it impossible to read Butler and Deleuze together because of their (it seems) totally different conceptions of the self and the subject? Or not?-- How can Butler's work on gender melancholy be brought to bear on Deleuzean affirmation? What is contained in D + G's affirmative corporeal becomings and how does the gesture towards virtual multiplicties-- common to both Butler and Deleuze in different ways-- account for the somatic/affective aspects of affirming different sexual differences? Is there space for melancholy in affirmative becoming?

sick sink upswing

On the plus side, I ate 3 barely-ripe (and therefore more delicious) bananas today. Sometimes, we really don't need Freud.

On the downside, fuck. I need to come up with some cohesive and coherent threads of thought for my thesis and pound something out this weekend. I also need to:
-figure out when I'm taking my GREs
-decide if I wanna go to grad school next year
-make a resumé and CV toutefois
-probably write a personal statement either way too
-emphatically, not panic.