Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 14:44:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: bhaatasari <gajjala+-AT-pitt.edu>
Subject:  From Sonita



wouldn't it be interesting, though, as Sonita suggested in  msg to me, to 
think of Sonita's gesture as "phallic" and Joseph's as "semiotic"  
although I meant it the 
other way...this is what Sonita (and i have her permission to quote her)

  
>  in your last note apologizing (which you didn't have to do), you 
> made an interesting (intentional? unintentional?) poing -- that the 
> episode we're referring to was "phallic intervention."  In fact, one can 
> read that as "semiotic flow" taking over, disguised as the phallic 
> because of its overwhelming insistence, and that my intervention could 
> instead be seen as "phallic" in its demand, its absoluteness, its 
> intention to control.  What do you think?
> 
> 
> Sonita Sarker                  Assistant Professor
> Women's Studies and English    Macalester College
> Office Phone: (612)696-6316    Fax: (612)696-6430  
> e-mail:sarker-AT-macalstr.edu
> 

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