if BH is so concerned with people really knowing whereof they speak, he should be careful about misrepresenting the concept of “kosher” which has nothing – repeat, NOTHING – to do with clean and dirty . . . although perhaps the metaphoric slip that turns all “acceptable/unacceptable” binaries into “clean/dirty” ones is at the heart of much of this discussion

From: Film-Philosophy [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of bill harris
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 10:32 AM
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Subject: Re: Showgirls/catfish

Bad metaphors make for poor judgment.

My work at Vincennes, under Deleuze, was on Kant's Third Critique. Yet perhaps that's too muddy for you, as well.

OTH, Deleuze's concept of the Body without Organs appears in Anti-Oedipus. This was not discussed in class because Deleuze--rare among academics--categorically refusd to discuss his own work therein.

Verhoven--unlike, say, Kieslowski-- was famous for employing camp to illustrate larger points of meaning. This is more or less consistent with Spinozan univocity, which itself extends back into The Scholastic Era...and forward to W's Tractatus.

In this perspective, depth and elevation totally miss the point: it's all on the surface which, in Showgirls, is made as glossy as possible. All we can do is make a case with facts within a given frame of reference.

Calling others 'catfish', then, reeks of the idiocy of an over-Platonized Christianity. It's also bad Biology, derived from the Kosher obsession with 'clean' and 'dirty' fish.

BH

Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 00:56:11 +1100
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Showgirls
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On 25 December 2010 00:23, William Brown <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

At the risk of sounding a bit like Ralph Wiggum from Der Simpsons, I
quite like Showgirls.

Haiku for bh

Bodies sans organs

Amerika c'est kaka

Play Showgirls, Nome!

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