My Fair Ladies

[David Morris]

I think the concept, even in Jewish tradition, is of mixed results. To
attempt creation of a subservient life is a usurpation of God's realm, and
thus is bound to backfire. To attempt even to control Fate, to change its
course, is wrought with danger. The golem, after it does it's doing is hard
to put back in the bottle.

Wrath unleashed is hard to then stop. The goddess Kali, protective mother,
unleashed her wrath on the battlefield, and became frenzied, killing
everyone in her path, even her own children. Shiva had to lay down and
offer his own life to get her to stop. Had she killed him, all creation
would have disappeared.

David Morris

On Thursday, May 7, 2015, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> a bit more nuanced in the Jewish tradition, no? as protector despite its
> unnatural origins?
>
> rich
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:50 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> This is the female version of a golum. Golums always exact a
>> counter-force (karma) because they are forced, unnatural, in Pynchon's
>> universe. They are Technology: human meddling in  some concept of a natural
>> order. In V. this desire for control is embodied embodied (a stand-in for
>> Everything) in Fetishism, which is just a degree or so shy
>> of Necro-desire. The desperate need for Control embodied by Technology is a
>> super-mortal Sin infecting raw humanity, in Pynchon's universe. Humans
>> trying to usurp God (Lucicer's Sin). Pynchon is a very religious/mystic
>> writer.
>>
>> And it is also clear that all of the above nature of humanity's sin are
>> massively amplified by Capitalism.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, May 6, 2015, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','against.the.dave at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>>
>>> My Fair Ladies
>>> Female Robots, Androids, and Other Artificial Eves
>>> Julie Wosk (Author)
>>> 240 pages, 60 black and white and 12 color photographs
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> The fantasy of a male creator constructing his perfect woman dates
>>> back to the Greek myth of Pygmalion and Galatea. Yet as technology has
>>> advanced over the past century, the figure of the lifelike manmade
>>> woman has become nearly ubiquitous, popping up in everything from
>>> Bride of Frankenstein to Weird Science to The Stepford Wives. Now
>>> Julie Wosk takes us on a fascinating tour through this bevy of
>>> artificial women, revealing the array of cultural fantasies and fears
>>> they embody.
>>>
>>> My Fair Ladies considers how female automatons have been represented
>>> as objects of desire in fiction and how “living dolls” have been
>>> manufactured as real-world fetish objects. But it also examines the
>>> many works in which the “perfect” woman turns out to be artificial—a
>>> robot or doll—and thus becomes a source of uncanny horror. Finally,
>>> Wosk introduces us to a variety of female artists, writers, and
>>> filmmakers—from Cindy Sherman to Shelley Jackson to Zoe Kazan—who have
>>> cleverly crafted their own images of simulated women.
>>>
>>> Anything but dry, My Fair Ladies draws upon Wosk’s own experiences as
>>> a young female Playboy copywriter and as a child of the “feminine
>>> mystique” era to show how images of the artificial woman have loomed
>>> large over real women’s lives. Lavishly illustrated with film stills,
>>> artwork, and vintage advertisements, this book offers a fresh look at
>>> familiar myths about gender, technology, and artistic creation.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/My-Fair-Ladies,5458.aspx
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>
>>
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