Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 22:37:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Nancy Ann Nield <nanield-AT-midway.uchicago.edu> Subject: Re: re(con)struct... On Tue, 2 Jul 1996, Alpha Anderson wrote: > Laura Wedner wrote: > > "Lyotard in Libidinal Economy in particular scorns the dialectical > remaneuvering of the construction of binaries and the satisfying insertion > or extraction of a third term." > > Forgive my ignorance, but can you tell me why Lyotard scorns the "insertion > or extraction of a third term"? > > And what about the idea that Trinh Min Ha and Rey Chow, among others, speak > about, of writing from a "hyphenated" space between two binaries? > > Thanks in advance... > > Alpha Anderson My educated guess is that Trinh's and Chow's reference to a "hyphenated space" between terms locked together in a hierarchical binary opposition borrows and builds heavily on Jacques Derrida's notion of the hymen, which can be found in the essay "The Double Session" in _Dissemination_. Ironically, despite Derrida's appropriation of this very culturally and linguistically loaded term for an "unpenetrated" female body, his discourse proves oddly devoid of any direct reference to any actual, corporeal female body and thus succeeds in distancing itself, I think quite deliberately, from any feminist agenda. Nancy Nield University of Chicago
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