Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 01:07:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU> Subject: RE: semiotic excess (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 1995 11:07:31 -0500 (CDT) From: WSTERBA-AT-tiny.computing.csbsju.edu To: film-theory-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU Cc: WSTERBA-AT-tiny.computing.csbsju.edu Subject: RE: semiotic excess Hi, I wanted to (perhaps) hep out with the question about excess. Baudrillard talks about something somewhat similar (although ultimately perhaps quite different) in Seduction in reference to the transvestite. (Of course for Baudrillard this becoes more real than real and thus something else. On page 15 of Seduction he says: "The irony of artificial practices: The peculiar ability of the painted woman or prostitute to exaggerate her features, to turn them into more than a sign, and by this usage of, not the false as opposed to the true, but the more false than false, to incarnate the peaks of sexuality while simultaneously being absorbed in their simulation." That whole chapter (The Ecliptic of Sex) is quite interesting with regard to this topic - sorry I didn't end up quoting anything about transvestites, but read the chapter... I apologize for any typos I scratched my cornea and am typing one eyed today and am amazed at how disjointed and poor in spatial judgement I currently am!!) Good luck! Wendy Sterba WSTERBA-AT-TINY.COMPUTING.CSBSJU.EDU Learn perfectly all that you learn, and Thereafter keep your conduct worthy of that learning./ Two are the eyes of those who truly live- One is called numbers and the other letters. Kural verse 391-392 --- from list film-theory-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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