My Fair Ladies

[David Morris]

Kali on the battlefield. Naked except for the drawings of limbs and heads
of her killings. Shiva lays peacefully at her feet.
Kali was a Feminist.

David Morris

On Thursday, May 7, 2015, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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> 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>
>>> 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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