Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 10:49:13
From: STANLEY GEMMELL <surlsone-AT-usa.net>
Subject: Re: [Re: MB: Literature and the Right to Death]



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This word "like" which may reduce the word-as-thing's materiality is immediately
implicated in the Tel-Quel (specifically Sollersian) movement of resistance. 
Where a multiplicity of freely articulated voices refuse to inherit the
submissive, patriarchal, logocentric nature of word use.  And where language in
art was seen as revealing the very essence and sometimes materiality of language
(drawing attention to itself, often through novelty).  "The Statue Glorifies The
Marble" reminds me of a materiality to art which is effaced partially by the use
of the word "like" in our vernacular.  In America it is an addictive, resonant
word which contains a collective, narcotic flow...used by many as an underlying
mantra or soundtrack to their lives.  Resistance/Self Effacement,  Just thought
it might be of interest.  Stanley Gemmell


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