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From: "Diane Davis" <d-davis-AT-uiowa.edu>
Subject: RE: INFO required
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 05:07:05 -0500


Hey Glen. What's the name of the book you're citing here? Sounds
interesting! Thanks. 

Best, ddd

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu [mailto:owner-
> lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] On Behalf Of fuller
> Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 4:19 AM
> To: lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: Re: INFO required
> 
> G'day,
> 
> In a book I have just read, Lyotard is cited:
> 
> A self does not amount to much, but no self is an island; each exists
in a
> fabric of relations that is now more complex and mobile than ever
before.
> (TPC 15)
> 
> The book is on post-social social relations and focuses on mobilities.
This
> little piece of text is interesting as it introduces the context
around
> which the 'self' (whatever that is) is constituted is that which is
mobile.
> Not some version of agency, but the meaningful differences that make
up the
> embedded spaces are mobile.
> 
> Are you looking specifically at marked bodies in the work of Lyotard,
or
> marked bodies in general? Some feminist writings might be more useful
as
> they explicitly deal with marked bodies and issues of
subjectification. I
> could find some references if you want them.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mary&Eric Murphy&Salstrand" <ericandmary-AT-earthlink.net>
> To: <lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 11:35 AM
> Subject: RE: INFO required
> 
> 
> >
> > I didn't want your post to be ignored, but I don't know of any place
where
> > Lyotard uses the terminology of marked/unmarked and he doesn't
really
> > discusss issues of race. The closest might be his early Political
Writings
> > on the war in Algiers.
> >
> > Maybe if you expanded a little more we could discuss this further.
> >
> > eric
> >
> > > [Original Message]
> > > From: Deepa Sitaraman <deepaslists-AT-yahoo.com>
> > > To: <lyotard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
> > > Date: 4/22/02 7:06:38 PM
> > > Subject: INFO required
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all:
> > > for a paper I am writing, I need to know which of Lyotard's works
talks
> > about the marked and unmarked as categories in terms of race. Any
clues,
> > anyone?
> > > Deepa
> > > Univ of South Florida
> > > Tampa
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > --- Mary Murphy & Eric Salstrand
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> >


   

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