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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