My Fair Ladies

[David Morris]

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

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