I am sitting here baffled as to how to respond to Keith's post. What is this? An attempt to shut me down through nonsense? To belittle me (and other women and minorities on the list) by making fun of the issue? Certainly it does not appear to be a genuine part of the debate.
If I used to word "see" too often in its various meanings then I apologise. I hope that despite that others were able to understand what I was trying to say. I will not apologise for my use of the word crystal - clearly he has intentionally bent the meaning of that one.
Maybe I can explain the situation better with this Haiku:
I know what I know
I don't know what I don't know
I know everything
Thea
Associate Professor Thea Blackler
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From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Keith Russell
Sent: Monday, 30 January 2017 11:08 AM
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Subject: Blind to gender nd crystals
Dear Thea,
Iım not very confident about crystals or any claims to privileged knowledge. I might seem like an arrogant male of whiteness who is blind and deaf to the facticity of all others but if this is so, how is it that there are any others? Unless, of course, I can and mostly am othering and othered by my simply being. The experience of OTHER is the experience of a subject, it is not the status of an other except they are found as other.
There are billions of potential others I will never other. But, my permanent other, is myself. How is it I can empathise with you as an other? Because I already find myself as other. But hey, this might be a gendered experience only open to men? Like a cup of tea?
It is nonsense sophistry to suggest I cannot see but I can see that I cannot see, except I allow that I understanding what it is to see and what it is to be situated such that there is a something that is open to being seen. I have always found myself in a world where there is an UP a DOWN an IN FRONT and a BEHIND. But that might be gendered? After all Hursserl was a man? I said BEHIND? Male pun?
What is the point in all this gesturing about difference except to politically claim some kind of social positioning other than through excellence?
Of course, excellence is a male thing so now we have a snake biting its tail.
But wait, that is a male metaphor so, bugger me, letıs go shopping.
But wait, that is a male gesture. We should start a twitter rant about men.
But wait, didnıt men invent twitter to fill in for shopping?
But wait, isnıt this becoming aggressive - more than two levels of recursion and my tongue cleaves to the roof of my mouth.
But wait, thatıs Biblical - the book of ancient blokes.
Damn damn damn - as Bart Simpson might say. Now we have reverted to childish jokes?
Go blow a saxophone (Lisa Simpson).
Isnıt that Godot over there? (Beckett - absurdist playwright).
keith
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