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Something Fishy
• January 2002 |
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Democracy, Security and
Justice
Perspectives on the American
Future
presents
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University of Illinois
Professor Stanley Fish
The man who destroyed
the Duke University English
Departement, meaning, and truth.
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The following
are excerpts from his DSJ Lecture:
The Twin Towers are a
male-male binary and anti-binary, a rejection of opposition. Their circumcision
and emasculation by terrorists is an expression of the will-to-power of
the Islamic nations. They have struck at the genitals of the abusive
West that has so long raped them…
Some may say that two
wrongs do not make a right, that Muslims cannot respond to centuries of
western oppression by acts of mass terror; but this notion of fairness
does not take into account the grave wrongs done to the Muslims in the
past, and that they have not been redressed; that a debt remains and that
the West has not yet paid it, and that until there is symmetry there will
be no peace, we are certain. The towers obscenely thrust into the
heavens, now are destroyed by the oppressed, so long unable to express
their will-to-power, so long unable to make the result of their unfree
speech, tied to future but non-potential action, potential. With
the towers fell the West’s phallogocentrism, and we are liberated from
“truth” itself…
When asked what I would
do if I were president, the only possible response was that “I” would do
nothing, as the subject is a myth. The greater question is how to
respond to having the “enemy” within us, as we are permeable Beings… |
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