IV Aunt REIT & (Eco) Feminist & Pragmatists & Humanists & Anthrosupremacists

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(Eco) Feminists & Pragmatists & Humanists & Anthrosupremacists

A radical future? by  Lorraine Code
In his provocatively titled 1989 book The American Evasion of
Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism Cornel West speculates that
pragmatism has failed to attract significant numbers of women because
of “its aggressive and self-confident stance toward the realities of
the spheres of power [that] has been virtually the possession of males
in patriarchal America.”
He asks: Does American pragmatism put too much of a premium on an
aggressive will? Is it but another expression of patriarchal culture?
Will the assertive agency of women from different classes and cultures
shun this mode of intellectual expression in the future? These
questions remain unanswered at present.
The issue, for West, “is how American women will reshape and revise
pragmatism”; how women's “appeal to their own experiences can enrich
and promote an Emersonian culture of creative democracy.”


In her famous essay, "To See and Be Seen: The Politics of Reality,”
Marilyn Frye defines reality in terms of the word's historical
connections with royalty. She traces real to the Spanish 'real' which
is equivalent to the English 'regal' or 'royal'. And she traces
reality to the eye of the king. Real estate - the property of the
king; reality - what the king can see. And she finishes with:
To be real is to be visible to the king.
The king is in his counting house.

These days the developers of computer hardware and software are king.
And they are certainly in their contemporary counting houses (stock
exchanges). And what they say is real goes.
No longer "real estate" but unreal estate, virtual estate, the estate where:
". . . there is no there there"
(William Gibson)
And:
"Objects in this virtual world are only surface; they have no weight or mass."
(Holtzman)

In the real world, Beryl Fletcher, has her character Pixel, a young
nethead say of her body:
"I hate living in the body, it's too demanding, too there."

Virtual reality . . . To be real is to be visible to the king.
(Frye)

What does the king not see? Watts? Women? Homeless? Madness? Streets
off the Super Highway? Beyond the margins of his wide screen?


In Gnostic Pynchon Dwight Eddins argues that GR is about Work (ha ha
he he he) or defining and denying Reality through control and
sterility.
Who has the new King denied a reality?

The New Fisher King is still blind and impotent and the channels can
not bring life to his wasteland.

Larry is no Don Quixote, no Knight in search of the grail.

http://www.spinifexpress.com.au/cf/cfsusan2.htm

http://www.radicalphilosophy.com/print.asp?editorial_id=10309