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Date: Sat, 8 Jul 1995 16:12:58 -0400 (EDT)
From: Stephen Perrella <sp43-AT-columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: Feminist topology


On Sat, 8 Jul 1995, dana wrote:
> Stephen,
> For your inquiry into feminism and space, you might want to try
> -Nomadic Subjects-(a feminist text which gets into Deleuze and Guattari).  I ha
> ven't read much of it yet, but it looks quite thoughtful.
> I was wondering, have you read Jameson's "Postmodernism, or the cultura logic o
> f late capitalism"? There's a bit in there on the city and the Bonaventura Hote
> l.  That particular section really got my shackles up because of its use of the
>  term "individual subject" as opposed to differentiating the bodies that are
> lured into and duped by certain types of architecture.  Any thoughts anyone?


Dear Dana,
This begins to open the inquiry into "multistable dividuals" as D+G might 
discuss it but I am trying to make a distinction between sexuality and 
space, something already established in architectural discourse over the 
past few years, and topology. Although they are fairly close space it is
only one of the coordintes in the space-time-light relativity that we may 
need to negotiate in order to consider how we become inter-subjectivities 
in a post-colonial, feminist, ecological--electronic culture. the luring 
and duping is always already taking place in architecture, yes, it may be 
that topology, as a pre-conditioned, responsive image-form will affirm 
the multiplicities, heteronomies, and complexities of our radical and 
intense intersubjective becomings. Space like time are thoroughly biased 
qualites of measure as we know, I think a quality like topology (I call 
it hypersurface) might unfold and distort-to-otherness, that is-displace 
those biases. 

thanks for your thoughts.
  


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