File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1997/lyotard.9704, message 17


Date: Fri, 16 May 1997 02:20:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: orpheus <cwduff-AT-alcor.concordia.ca>
Subject: Re: lyotard


		Lois S,

	

	thanks very much. about those references.


	Now Lyotard is very specific to one artist in an essay that I know
of - it is called Des Traces Diffractes... the whole essay is indeed about
one artist. SO this is an example of Lyotardian post-modernism applied to
art, and thinking through an object (in this case the work of a visual
artist) in quite specific terms. In english it is called  Diffracted
Traces... so there is no inherent inability in a thinker of the
post-modern stamp writing about art... when I made the reference to a
a discourse which runs through the various disciplines I meant to say that
it is among some of the followers that one comes across a fragmentation
that is not found in the thinkers themselves - ie. Lyotard, Derrida,
Deleuze, Foucault etc.


	ANyone out there read the Driftworks translated originally by the
Semiotexte people?

	Another interest of mine is how Lyotard offers the image of
Orpheus as replacement or alternative to Oedipus. Orpheus being no longer
centred in the repressed neurotic consciousness which leads to the Oedipal
impasse.


	Any thought s about  that idea? 


	CD.


   

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