Sexed Universals in Contemporary Art (Aesthetics Today) by Penny Florence

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In the translation, I have resorted to “this” to avoid sexing the absent body, or bodies, the “qui” of the poem (“chez qui du rêve se dore”). They are evoked through absence. But the absent is what constitutes poetry, according to Mallarmé. ” The sleeping mandolin of the previous stanza introduces a melodic tone. The issue for me is how to activate it. The question remains, then, is it therefore always a disembodied pregnancy? “By means of a learned joke about the elephant’s period of gestation, Nietzsche reinforces [.

But then also, the child without a sense of horse-ness (I am tempted to say, horse sense) is in trouble. In saying this, I hope I am duly attuned to the issues about discursiveness that are implied in this elementary example of psycho-linguistics. I want therefore to pay close attention to the following two sentences from Relating Narratives, in order to introduce a number of interventions that the sexed universal allows. The discourse on the universal, with its love of the abstract and its definitory logic, is always a matter for men only.

The task of this book is to move towards understandings where universals might be recognized in and through their specific applications, defined not by exclusion and purity, but rather by breadth of relevance. The movement of abstraction is from the bottom up, if you like, rather than top-down. Or even more, the conceptualization is non-objective, pertaining not to representation at all (which still hovers around the notion of abstraction, or its process). This matters more than it may seem. You may have noticed that “story” was substituted for “reality” in my rewriting of Caveraro’s words.

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