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From: "Venables, Brigid Mary - VENBM001" <VENBM001-AT-students.unisa.edu.au>
Subject: RE: Weasel  and Emily:  that  punk-o-lantern smile!
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 16:45:23 +0930


> One thing I would be interested to hear about, tho, is what do feminists
> think of
> postmodernity? About the movement of the sign away from *some profound
> mystery*, that perhaps it never did more than veil, conceal, produce as
> mystification, or never was, or still is, or might be, maybe becoming?
> 
	[Venables, Brigid Mary - VENBM001]  
	I can't speak on behalf of all the feminists of course, but as a
feminist myself, I find it harder to *idealise* when confronted by this
postmodern tendency to look oddly at *the wound*. (the sign? the wound? perhaps
they are fundamentally different things...) 
	But just because I can't idealise, doesn't mean I can't call myself a
feminist.
	My current project involves essaying *postmodern perspectives* re: the
poetry of Sylvia Plath: but I find few of the *postmodern feminists* are able
to assist in this critical reading..
	If you want to see a feminist historian use*postmodern* feminist
ideology in an interesting way - and you're interested in early modern literary
theory - can I recommend Philippa Berry's book "Of Chastity and Power:
Elizabethan Literature and the Unmarried Queen." [London: Routledge, 1989] 
	Brigid Venables (venbm001-AT-students.unisa.edu.au)  

> Don't know whether to mourn or not. Know one thing though, the exploitation
> of
> cheap "Third World" labour is somehow tied up with the World Bank and the
> International Monetary Fund. Wonder what Phase of the Sign that would be?
> Pure
> simulation, abstract global capital, money breeding with minimal respect to
> commodities, decoded flows? And then there is the recoding..... Christian
> Children's Fund, World Vision, Mother Theresa, "world leaders" - men of state
> -
> making speeches, UN Peacekeeping, Lady Di and the Landmines (good name for a
> pop group?), and then the heterogeneous bubbles, Snake Handers Speaking in
> Toungues to UFOs having Visions of the Virgin Mary who told me to Join the
> Patriotic Rifle Club and Defend My Constitutional Rights! Cognitive
> dissonance
> Page 1 (World Vision Advertisement)/Page 2 (Starvin Marvin from South Park).
> You know, I learned something today. What's that Chris? Always try to be
> yourself 'cos if you try to be somebody else you just end up looking foolish.
> gosh Chris, I never thought of it that way.....from now on I'm only going to
> be
> myself. Me too. Me too.....
> 
> - Chris
> 
> Thomas 2Less wrote:
> 
> 

   

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