Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 20:23:28 -0700 (PDT) From: "P. Johnston" <smirglehoffeth-AT-yahoo.com> Subject: Re: poem Christos aneste! Alleluia, alleluia! --- Nathan Goralnik <rhizome85-AT-home.com> wrote: > I tried to send this before. Maybe it will work this > time. If you get it > twice (or more) I'm really sorry. > > "Critical Self-Awareness On A Friday Night" > (Rough Draft) > > There's just interpretation--no fixed, stable > reality. > I lack intrinsic essence--I'm flux and > relationality. > Endless interpellation, > And capitalist alienation, > Modern subject formation, > I'm lost in positionality. > > I deconstruct my innocent whiteness--it perpetuates > racism. > I critique my masculinity--it's a product of > humanism. > Ontological relativity, > Reject all normativity, > And perform your subjectivity, > But escape from nihilism. > > I reject the modern narrative--I eschew all > teleology. > I stick to micro-politics--no Marxist eschatology. > Historicize all structures, > Try to create a rupture, > At this historical juncture, > I hate your methodology. > > I'm decentered and I'm disciplined--an object of > control. > I'm all extrinsic features--just parts without a > whole. > I'm simulacra and simulation, > Just some subjectivation, > Some insidious power relation, > And I doubt I have a soul. > > I was raised on Leon Trotsky--I used to be a Red. > There is no rationality--it's all inside your head. > Don't trust immutability, > Metaphysics or stability, > Or Judeo-Christian humility, > Remember, God is dead. > > ~Nate > > -- > > "The living body is a loving body, and the loving > body is a speaking body. Without love we are > nothing > but walking corpses. Love is essential to the > living > body, and it is essential in bringing the living > body to life in language." ~Kelly Oliver > > > > --- from list > heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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