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
On 30/1/17, 11:42 am, "PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD
studies and related research in Design on behalf of Thea Blackler"
<[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>The culture of the list is affected by gender. How you perceive the
>culture is affected by your experience of it which is mediated by your
>gender. You do not experience the list in the same way that I do because
>your gender allows you to be blind to those aspects of the culture that
>are crystal clear to me. Just as I do not see my own white privilege a
>lot of the time, you do not see your own male privilege.
>
>We do not really expect you to start seeing it, but just to accept that
>it is there and that others see it.
>
>Thea
>
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