File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9804, message 331


Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 17:22:23 +1000
From: Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan-AT-qut.edu.au>
Subject: Re: M-I: Moderator's note


Lou wrote
>
>"hm.... I wonder where all this could go, I started reading Leiris _L'Age
>d'homme_ where he, as some of you know, shares his experience of growing
>up into manhood and a more masculine style. He doesn't mention
>blackstockings as such but he does say that an early initiation into
>manhood involved the binding together of an interest in theater shared by
>everyone in his family and role playing. Since he was the youngest, his
>role in the plays he and his brothers played out inavariably was that of
>the female. This role, pleased him he writes, as much as any role in
>suffering, it was his first revelation of virility. He played the
>prisoner and the one tied to be tortured. Later on... i would
>like very much to relate this across some of Deleuze's suggestive
>remarks on masochism, some of which appear in his intro to _Venus In Furs_
>which, who knows, could loop back to Quevedo and his own impossible desire
>and certain things Zizek writes in this regard; but now unfortunately i
>must postpone all this for another time as my heidegger essay is calling
>me to my ownmost possibility."
>

Gee Lou where is this list?  To think I have been laboring on the Bhaskar
list, the film philosophy list and the marixism international list and the
lenin list and all along you know about this stuff, and you were keeping it
to yourself and you didn't tell me.  Thanks pal.  Now I know how Homer felt
wehn he discovered that everyone had eaten the donuts.



Yours in frustration


gary


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