Date: Mon, 4 Dec 1995 16:02:43 +0800
From: d_rodan-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au (Debbie Rodan)
Subject: Re: jackson white(ned)



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>in other words, "intentional hybridity?"  what do you want to mean by this?  
>and really for me mj is not a liberational figure of post-ness, not figure 
>of transcending our various hierarchized codes of gender, race, class, 
>ethnicity.  His ability to "chose" is so clearly class based.  Again 
>individualism is predicated on capitalist relations and orchestration of 
>class identities/practices.  no?
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>(sorry if i sounded like i got all excited  :)
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>quetzil.

These are some of my rambling thoughts on the topic posted on the list in
relation to contemporary postmodernist notions of 'identity'.  I too am
concerned about the lack of class, gender, and historical analysis in
relation to the term "ability to chose".  Another issue is that MJ operates
in what Jennifer Wick calls a "celebrity zone".  How does that further
construct his identity as "intentionally hybridity"?  (I may not have fully
understood the specific meaning of the latter term here.)  Also sometimes I
get the impression that 'identity' is concieved of as purely socially
constructed; that is you can uninscribe it anytime you want to! I wonder
about the ways in which 'identity' is constructed psychically, in other
words in very non-discursive ways.  I'd be interested in some feedback comments

Regards
Debbie
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Debbie Rodan
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d_rodan-AT-central.murdoch.edu.au



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