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Being a huge science fiction junkie, I noticed something that was glaringly obvious in this short story that I see as being true of the genre as a whole. There is very little room for a strong female protagonist in science fiction stories; the few exceptions being stories written by a female author. [...]
This afternoon, I went to Jennifer Friedlander’s lecture, “Doing the Full Monty With Jacques Lacan.” On the whole, I found the talk to be engaging and informative. I am unfamiliar with Lacan’s work, and much of what Professor Friedlander said helped contextualize the bits of Lacanian theory I do know. But when Prof. Friedlander arrived [...]
Butler persuasively describes the lack of a non-”inscribed” body, that is, one that is free from being always already interpreted. The problem is that we cannot imagine a body in the absence of interpretation, because to do so would be to imagine one independent of a culture, and language, which themselves already interpret and reinscribe [...]