the notion that science/theory/fiction/literature/culure collide
or collude (ain't we all writers in the end?)
in multiplicitous forms
is compelling if not inspring - indeed my dissertation explores these
possiblities
(a theoretical/psychoanalytic what if? wittgensein & mary shelley; max
horkheimer & virginia woolf; louis althusser & monique wittig) -
that is, if we can abandon the desire for a truth
serum, (the creative potential for mixing metaphors is utterly
intoxicating ;) - perhaps not take our selves
quite so seriously and still practice a responsibility for our own
accounts of academic practice in theory -
um,
really?
i rather love
the ways we might incidentally build upon these anarchistic
anti-structures, -
i am invariably reminded of a conversation i had with a russian woman in a
coffee shop
in montreal, years ago,
and she asked me what i thought of gorbachov,
and i said something along the lines of
' i think that people don't understand how foundations
need to be torn down in order to rebuild'
and she leapt from herself in agreement - we had a brilliant converation
about
infancy and electromagnetic sensory fields -
but i always am reminded of the ways anarchistic thinking has been both
horrifying
and necessary...
indeed history and fiction produces very strange relations.
the possibility that time-scales are but another metaphor in the mysteries
of language,
much in the way "Mrs. Dalloway" was a fiction of the timescales of culture,
ahem
offer poignant points for a moment of humility, and for anarchy - i don't
think intellectual anarchy
is awful, i think it is essential for radical discovery,
but to start, certainly we might stop taking our language and selves quite
so seriously,
just as theoretical terms can be incidentally reified in the shared desire
to 'speak' with these,
science metaphors are at risk of representing truths, when really what we
need is more confidence in that ways we might speak of our
selves-in-relation,
it is late, i am tired,
plato, aristotle, bowlby and attachment, bellini and st. francis in the
desert,
history, psychology, art, literature, and so on... agh.
i am brained.
diane
' 'We have destroyed something by our presence,' said Bernard, 'a
world perhaps.'
(Virginia Woolf, "The Waves")
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, vancouver / university of colorado, denver
Diane_Hodges who-is-at ceo.cudenver.edu