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> Dennis R Redmond wrote:
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> >I just wish we Leftists spent more time acknowledging the richness
> >of the dissident tradition and thinking through its heritage instead of
> >constantly creating our own imaginary Cold War internment camps for those
> >thinkers deemed insufficiently radical, in unwitting echo of the real
> >ones Castoriadis saw being constructed by both sides in the postwar Greek
> >bloodbath.
>
> As part of my continuing corruption by postmodernism, I just came across
> this in a short commentary by Adam Phillips that Judith Butler included in
> her book The Psychic Life of Power:
>
> "Starting with two sexes, as we must - described as opposites or
> alternatives or complements - locks us into a logic, a binary system that
> often seems remote from lived and spoken experience.... We should be
> speaking of paradoxes and spectrums, not contradictions and mutual
> exclusion. Every child rightly wants to know whether there is a position
> beyond exclusion or difference or separateness - a world in which leaving
> and being left out disappears, an idea taken up at a different level in
> utopian socialism, which aims at a society without margins and therefore
> without humiliation....
> The language of boundaries that psychoanalysis is so intent
> on...promotes a specific set of assumptions about what a person is and can
> be. It is a picture of a person informed by the languages of purity and
> property, what Mary Douglas more exactly called purity and danger. It may
> be more useful to talk about gradations and blurring rather than contours
> and outlines when we plot our stories about gender. Butler's language of
> performance keeps definition on the move, which is where it is anyway...."
>
> Doug
>
Response:
I have been away for awhile. Has the language of communication on pen-
l changed from English to some other foreign language? POMOish
perhaps? And people really get paid and published for writing that
shit illustrated above (actually it is really unfair for me to call
it shit before I understand what it means) Anyone fluent in POMOish
that can translate the above?
Jim Craven
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