On Friday 14 December 2001 04:30, you wrote:
> With sexual difference it is a question of libidinal economics, the
> incompatibility or incompossibility of pleasures. Some people would
> give a lot to be rid of it, as they would like to be rid of all
> incompossibilities; hence the noble dream of the comprehensive
> school, which will only truly exist when nothing else does.
>
> Dom
Ha! An interesting comment, Dom. By incompossibilities am I to assume
a reference to Leibniz Monadology? If so, then the imcompossibility
of pleasures would tie in rather nicely with Realist point of view
and Realist narrative, which I find interesting. . . many thanks. So
the differences in gender are compossible and hence real, in the
Realist sense?
Ermina seems to be suggesting a sort of transversal cut across the
dualism of gender (the dualist theory of gender) which is also very
interesting. It suggests a break with Monadic compossibility. In
monist materialist thought dualisms are often brought undone and
converted to monism (slight joke, sorry) from the inside of the
dualism. Both Marx and Nietzsche pose the problem of a monist theory
of gender in different ways. (I am playing more precisely with the
limits of Deleuze's concept of n sexes which I find one of the weaker
concepts in ATP.)
And Doug's suggestion of a science fiction novel (which I didn't know
of but had guessed there had to one somewhere) fits in very nicely
too. All seems for me, anyway, to come back to a question of Realism
in fiction, which includes poetry, of course. (I tthink of the
malepregnancy.com web-site as fiction.) The suggestion made to
writers that we only write what we know (which is compossible in the
final analysis) for example, if I can say that without implying this
is what Dom is saying, of course.
I don't mean to summarise the discussion like this, just wanted to
attempt some reply. Have just been going over Mary Anne Doody _The
True Story of the Novel_ and this discussion fitted in nicely with
that book. (Has anyone read it, just curiosity?) I am working with a
theory of serial narrative which works to bring undone the double
references in Realist point of view as informed by the Monadology and
hence prescriptive or determined points of view. (Just to explain my
own particular interests.)
best wishes
Chris Jones.
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