GRGR(5) War and sex

[Kevin Won]

The war/sex antinomy/marriage reminds me of the Nietzsche quote from _Will to Power_ which goes something like "Love:  in its methods war, in its foundations the mortal hatred of the sexes."   Given the underlying nature of Nietzsche's thought to issues of power, particularly the formulations of power in the guise of knowledge, it may not be too much to point this light at the text of _GR_

Of course the contemporary reading of Nietzsche, al la Derrida, isn't too much help, because it unravels itself. . . but this reflects much of how I read _GR_'s many world views: contending "truths"  at once convincing and transparent, both all-encompassing and trite (its just my paranoia.  Oh, no! They really are out to get me!)


>>> ginnetti <ginnetti at ben.dev.upenn.edu> 06/29 10:14 AM >>>
One theme we might wish to discuss is the conflation of war and sex (not
that this is new at this point, and not coincidentally introduced
through Roger and Jessica) particularly through the description of war
in sexualized terms.  I think of Slothrop and his possibly psychokinetic
misogony, Pointsman and The Book, and then Pointsman's fetishization of
conditioning. . . and so on.  Of course, the Pointsman passage here is
taken to its extreme in the next episode.