Re: play and power
Judy Diamondstone (diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu)
Fri, 1 Mar 1996 19:38:25 -0500
Jay, my first intuition was that, while materially and discursively rendered
positions may be ecologically interdependent, play renders the distinction
between such renderings of positionality (how's that for hugging
abstractions, Jay? - blyech!) moot. If material force secures the ground of
play, it's more an offshoot of the first-order work it does (in this
framework) shifting "the ecological foundations of discourses" -- The play
we inevitably do around our
discursively rendered reals will get done whether those reals are secured by
material force or not. But I suppose you are right, that material force can
and does secure more room for play - it can secure the right for some to
enjoy what they are doing.
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Judy Diamondstone
diamonju who-is-at rci.rutgers.edu
Rutgers University
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