[New-Poetry] Re: [New-Poetry) Phallogocentrism

[Anny Ballardini]

exactly against Saussure, and also Rousseau had his part.
  From: Chris Stroffolino 
  Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 6:28 AM




  I'm probably a little rusty on this staple of academic 'theory-speak,' but my sense was that 'phallocentrism" had a more specific sense
  relating to 'speech-based' as opposed to 'written text based'---
  and that it was used (deployed) pejoratively by derrida in his charmingly smart-ass attempt to criticize (or put into question, as they say)
  the essentialism of writers who claim that speech is prior to the written word....
  something like that....
                         so it's also about where one locates the logos (in the mouth? or in the pen? or both, or neither?)...
  Chris


  On Jan 28, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:


    You are right, coined by Derrida, or logocentrism, the tendency to place everything in the logos (= word, reason or spirit).
      From: Chris Stroffolino 
      Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 2:32 AM




      don't know if this will help or hurt or do nothing, but one of my favorite 'silly' academic words (especially silly, because it's sometimes accompanies by these sober-faced high toned earnest voices) is Phallogocentric......i think derrida coined it... 
                 anyway....in the beginning was that word (and they're trying not to make it flesh....)


      C
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