Re: [-empyre-] Matrixial and phallic space - Panopticon (forward from Richard White)

[Christina McPhee <christina112@earthlink.net>]

>

hi empyre

for a quick one, check out art critic John Haber's primer on Lacan a 
witty and succinct observation.

> For Lacan, context is everything. It creates desire, and so for each 
> person, as in Poe, the letter bears profound significance: a letter 
> always finds its address. Derrida plays on that truly memorable line. 
> In language, literature, or psychology, meaning can never be closed 
> off or translated once and for all, not even into other words: a 
> letter never finds its address.

http://www.haberarts.com/lacan.htm


> With Lacan and Derrida, I take the idea of deferral to mean that 
> differences matter. Meanings may never become final, but locating them 
> is a necessary decision. It involves letting the differences 
> multiply—between artists, between art objects, between art and 
> life—even as the copy becomes a basic tool of Postmodernism.
>
> Locating meaning is the difference between depression and vitality, 
> between feminism and silence. It is the difference between unconscious 
> lack and that fullness of desire called art.

 -cm


On Tuesday, April 26, 2005, at 05:56 PM, Christina McPhee wrote:

> this message bounced as it probably was not in plain text. here 
> forwarded from Richard ... thanks \
> cm
>
> From: Richard White <djbeata@yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: Tue Apr 26, 2005  1:27:21 PM US/Pacific
> To: empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au
> Subject: Matrixial and phallic space - Panopticon
>
>
> I've been browsing this thread with some interest and wanted to make 
> an intervention regarding this issue of matrixial space. If matrixial 
> space is a "supplementary symbolic space" to the phallic, how is the 
> way information is produced, circulated and consumed (i.e. "media") 
> in matrixial space different than phallic space? For example, drawing 
> on Foucault's notion of the Panopticon, the Dutch art and design 
> theorist M Terpstra theorises a "mediatised space" ("a combination of 
> physical space and all information media") which suggests there is 
> no way of escaping the phallic space of the Panopticon, even in what 
> we regard as private or personal space. (See 
> http://www.9nerds.com/marten/articles/panopticon.html ;) How is 
> information (and hence subjectivity) articulated in matrixial space? I 
> think some engagement with Lacanian theory is in order here, speci 
> fically in reference to the idea that language precedes and determines 
> subjectivity. There is a wealth of feminist criticism on Lacan that 
> would be fruitful here - perhaps Lacan has been mentioned in another 
> thread in relation to matrixial space and I have missed it?
>  
> Richard\
>
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