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Kaja Silverman and Photography by Other Means

Jason: The Kaja thing lasted until about 6.
Kiril: was she good?
Jason: I thought it was pretty awesome.
Kiril: yea?
Jason: Can’t synthesize the awesomeness for you though.
Kiril: why not
Jason: Semiotics, photography, horror, grief…
Kiril: what was so cool
Jason: It’s just too much.
Jason: Haha too much work to synthesize dude. You just had to be there. Though, you can read the book when it comes out.
Kiril: haha
Kiril: well gimme a highlight then
Kiril: without synthesizing
Jason: This is who the talk was abt. http://www.gerhard-richter.com/art/paintings/
Jason: A highlight… blah. I decline.
Kiril: whatevs
Jason: http://criticism.english.uiuc.edu/2008%20Fall%20pages/Silverman/
Kiril: mm
Jason: Oh yeah… Kaja did say that she is no longer a post-structuralist.
Jason: She is a post-poststructuralist.
Kiril: hahaha
Kiril: what does that mean, structuralist?
Jason: Now she is oriented towards psychoanalytic phenomenology.
Kiril: what is a postpoststructuralist
Jason: Not entirely sure.