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

[Mark Kohut]

Alice is always sayin", "It's about work": 

Simone Weil agrees with you:
Where in History is the history of the worker?  Nowhere. Obliterated.
--------------------The Need For Roots, 1952

--- On Sun, 8/30/09, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> Subject: IV Aunt REIT & (Eco) Feminist & Pragmatists & Humanists &  Anthrosupremacists
> To: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Date: Sunday, August 30, 2009, 8:53 AM
> (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
> 
>