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?