Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:05:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: J Poxon <poxon-AT-saclink.csus.edu>
Subject: Re: Geopoetics



On 31 Jul 1997, Amy M. Hollywood wrote:

> I am thinking about some of the essays in Imaginary Bodies. "Corporeal
> representation in/and the body politic" especially, I guess, but I think the
> issue emerges in a number of other pieces.

OK, I read the Gatens essay, and I have to say I'm not sure how the 
notion of anthropomorphism she critiques there connects with the notion 
of anthropomorphism that Cheah is taking on in his essay--other than to 
note that he seems to use the word in precisely the (covertly 
androcentric) sense that Gatens is critiquing, which is to say that the 
force of his critique points in a different direction altogether. And 
that, given that he develops his critique in the context of a reading of 
Butler and Grosz that is critical--albeit in the most generous sense of 
the word--perhaps Gatens's critique is what's needed to reintroduce a 
feminist perspective into Cheah's antihumanism.

Can you say more about your original question, so that maybe we can take 
this farther?

> I hope that your daughter recovers quickly -- and will be glad to pick this up
> when you have a chance. 

Thanks for the thought. She's better now, and happy to be back in daycare.

Talk to you soon.

Judith


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