Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 00:20:38 -0400
Subject: Re: poem



What a load of horse pucky.

Happy Easter.

E.

On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 18:21:20 -0700 Nathan Goralnik <rhizome85-AT-home.com>
writes:
> I tried to send this before. Maybe it will work this time. If you get 
> it
> twice (or more) I'm really sorry.
> 
> "Critical Self-Awareness On A Friday Night"
> (Rough Draft)
> 
> There's just interpretation--no fixed, stable reality.
> I lack intrinsic essence--I'm flux and relationality.
> Endless interpellation,
> And capitalist alienation,
> Modern subject formation,
> I'm lost in positionality.
> 
> I deconstruct my innocent whiteness--it perpetuates racism.
> I critique my masculinity--it's a product of humanism.
> Ontological relativity,
> Reject all normativity,
> And perform your subjectivity,
> But escape from nihilism.
> 
> I reject the modern narrative--I eschew all teleology.
> I stick to micro-politics--no Marxist eschatology.
> Historicize all structures,
> Try to create a rupture,
> At this historical juncture,
> I hate your methodology.
> 
> I'm decentered and I'm disciplined--an object of control.
> I'm all extrinsic features--just parts without a whole.
> I'm simulacra and simulation,
> Just some subjectivation,
> Some insidious power relation,
> And I doubt I have a soul.
> 
> I was raised on Leon Trotsky--I used to be a Red.
> There is no rationality--it's all inside your head.
> Don't trust immutability,
> Metaphysics or stability,
> Or Judeo-Christian humility,
> Remember, God is dead.
> 
> ~Nate
> 
> --
> 
> "The living body is a loving body, and the loving
>  body is a speaking body. Without love we are nothing
>  but walking corpses. Love is essential to the living
>  body, and it is essential in bringing the living
>  body to life in language."  ~Kelly Oliver
> 
> 
> 
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