Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 03:43:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Paul Murphy <clitophon-AT-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: of the imagination


Hi, interesting!  I understand the etymology of the
word homo, it came from Germany, it was a clinical
term, and implied that homosexuality is an illness,
well more than implied.  Tell me more about your
mental illness?  How do you view the State?  Is it
imposing its view of mental illness on you?  I too
suffered an illness, I still have problems, but not
many.  Liked the ´Myra Beckinridge´quote.....ciao,
Paul Murphy
--- Chris Jones <ccjones-AT-turboweb.net.au> wrote:
> Hi Paul
> 
> I did the attachment with mine quotable encoding,
> for what Nietzsche 
> calls conceptual cripples who use MS Windows OS's so
> Photoshop should 
> be able to open it. It is just a jpeg image of two
> teenage boys 
> fucking, really. Maybe I should have sent it with
> base 64 encoding?
> 
> I am not a lit critic. I don't work. I live as a
> free spirit on a 
> pension.  I am an occasional poet, now writing a
> novel 
> series, and in past lives have been a visual artist,
> journalist and 
> photographer. I have no shame in identity and am a
> faggot junkie who 
> is often assumed to be HIV+ and which State Science
> medicine (if you 
> believe in this stuff) considers in clinical terms
> to be mentally 
> ill. I have no idea what my antibodies say about all
> this, nor do I 
> really care. I also have an auto-immune disease
> which adds to this 
> assumption. I don't go in for this (anti)identity
> crap about I am 
> gay, straight, man, women, black, yellow, white,
> that comes up on 
> this list from time to time. When this is said what
> is being said is 
> "I am afraid of identity and I want to re-instate
> the ideal identity 
> of heterosexual white European male". Identity don't
> frighten me like 
> it frightens this type! This is hetero thinking,
> always looking to 
> the other to establish their gay, dyke, woman,
> black, yellow, 
> identity as straight, drug free, white sane European
> male. Another 
> word for chauvinism. The etymology of homo is
> difference. Why be 
> afraid of an axiomatic thingy?
> 
> I was forced against my better judgment to read
> Lacan as an 
> undergrad. The best thing I have ever read of Lacan
> was the quote 
> Sokal picked out.
> 
> Lacan states that the penis, cock, prick, whatever
> you want to call 
> it.... [I'll let the new Master do the talking
> here.]
> 
> Thus, by calculating that signification according to
> the algebraic 
> method used here, namely:
> 
> S (signifier) = s (the statement),
>  s (signified)
> 
> With S = (-1), produces: s = sqrt(-1)
> 
> .. . . is equivalent to the sqrt(-1) of the
> signification produced 
> above, of the jouissance that it restores by the
> coefficient of its 
> statement to the function of lack of signifier (-1).
> 
> Now lets see if I got this right... a cock is the
> square root of 
> minus one.  That means a cock is an imaginary
> number. Mmmm... sounds 
> like a sexual fantasy to me... imagine getting
> fucked by an 
> imaginary number... isn't a number street talk for a
> cock, now?
> So, is that anything like getting fucked by a rubber
> dildo made from 
> the plaster cast of a famous porn star? 
> 
> Lets look at Mandelbrot fractals which are complex
> numbers involving 
> a mathematical relation with the square root of
> minus one. HA! Now I 
> see, since a fractal doesn't allow for total
> division that means 
> castration is impossible? Mmmm.... I thought
> castration was central 
> to Lacan's theory. Maybe we had better look at Gore
> Vidal's _Myron_ 
> novel where Myra Breckinridge sets out on the time
> reversible movie 
> set to castrate all men who are likely to breed to
> prevent the world 
> from becoming overpopulated. 
> 
>  _Myra Breckinridge_, chapter one:
> 
> I am Myra Breckinridge whom no man will ever
> possess. Clad only in 
> garter belt and one dress shield, I held off the
> entire elite of the 
> Trobriand Islanders, a race who possess no words for
> 'why' or 
> 'because'. Wielding a stone axe, I broke the arms,
> the limbs, the 
> balls of their finest warriors, my beauty blinding
> them, as it does 
> all men, unmanning them in the way that King Kong
> was reduced to a 
> mere simian whimper by beauteous Fay Wray whom I
> resemble left 
> three-quarter profile if the key light is no more
> then five feet high 
> during the close shot.
> 
> Probably has some reference to the cinema and the
> face, too, come to 
> think of it. But what would Lacan make of this?
> Perhaps, castration?
> 
> Gore writes in chapter 2: The novel being dead,
> there is no point to 
> writing made up stories. 
> 
> There is no Monadic realism. Fiction is theory!
> 
> Anyway, Paul, you did ask. Most lit critics might
> consider this the 
> ravings of a lunatic... so be it. Lit critics are
> still leaching off 
> us poets.
> 
> As for my conceptual cripple quip. The MS Windows
> operating system is 
> designed around the concept of a neo-Kantian dumbing
> down. Stick with 
> the categories for the computer illiterate, says
> Bill Gates, and make 
> sure it has a patent! A conceptual cripple to fetter
> production and 
> consumption. Anyone with an undergrad degree in
> Communication can 
> tell you graphics are more difficult to read then
> text! MS Windows 
> actually makes computers more difficult to use then
> UNIX ever could.  
> Even Mac with OS X has gone UNIX. Richard Stallman,
> of GNU free 
> software fame, also understood that patents stop the
> possibility of 
> a-life. Now, will Mac make Darwin, the kernel in OS
> X based on BSD 
> UNIX open source and also come out for life and
> never enough 
> production and never enough consumption?
> 
> Make of this what you will..... tell me about Lacan
> and Eliot, too.
> 
> 
> best wishes
> 
> Chris Jones.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sunday 02 December 2001 03:58, you wrote:
> > Hi Chris, I couldnt download the attachment.  I am
> > also a literary critic, but work in literary
> > journalism - you might call it that - not academe.
>  i
> > find the academe a bit wearying now, since I had
> > enough of it a good while ago, wrote a book on
> Lacan
> > and TS Eliot.  Can you tell me more about your
> work,
> > ciao, Paul M
> 


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