User:Kim/reading/The Laurence Rassel Show
by Laurence Rassel and Terre Thaemlitz
on Terre's website
Excerpt Mix
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Laurence Rassel operates anonymously as "critical rejection of systems of authorship" which "are inseparable from the troubles of patriarchy"
Between the death of her invisibility, a feminist assassination of the patriarchal Author figure ... .
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A special message from Joan Smith (FROM “MORALITIES: SEX, MONEY AND POWER IN THE 21ST CENTURY”)
18th century as age of privatization of land an bodies. process of enclosure --> primarily womens bodies (controlling birth without birth control)
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Nicholas
So basically yes, this is a kind of legal fiction.
Laurence
Imagine we have pure, cleared, original, new material ... .
Free licenses are not bad per se, but just not the solution to licensing problem (which they are bringing on) because they attune to the same principles.
Terre
Okay, I believe this constitutes a legal verbal contract, so we'll stop recording right now.
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A special message from Peggy Phelan (FROM UNMARKED: THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE)
Visibility is a trap; it summons surveillance and the law; it provokes voyeurism, fetishism, the colonialist/imperial appetite for possession.
4 implicit presumptions:
- Identities are visible (visually marked)
- relation between representation and identity is linear and smooth
- not represented == not addressed
- increased visibility == increased power
Each presumption reflects the ideology of the visible -- erases power of unmarked, unspoken and unseen
....The focus on skin as the visible marker of race is itself a form of feminizing those races which are not white. Reading the body as the sign of identity is the way men regulate the bodies of women.
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Terre
authorship relates to a kind of patriarchal authoring of our bodies
How to bring the notion of the body into this program?
We want to counter this notion of fetishizing the recognized or “authored” body.