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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