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111
See T Cohen, Ideology and Inscription: Cultural Studies after Benjamin,
de Man and Bakhtin, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, p. 8 and
p. 41.
112
Ibid, p. 46.
113
Ibid, p. 83 and p. 112.
114
Massumi, Parables of the Virtual, p. 5.
115
N Stern, ‘stuttering,’ 2003,
<http://nathanielstern.com/works/interactive/stuttering.html> (viewed
January 5, 2006). Until again noted, the following quotations are all my own
text from this site.
116
Massumi, Parables for the Virtual, p. 5. For an extended exploration of
this discussion of the between (as interval and relation) see, N Ridgway, “Of
the Between - Thinking the (Im)Mediate,” in D Mayer-Dinkgräfe (ed),
Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, Cambridge Scholars Press,
Cambridge, 2008.
117
For example, Elizabeth Grosz in Volatile Bodies: Towards a Corporeal
Feminism (Indiana University Press, Indiana, 1994) argues that we need to
develop feminist concepts and understandings of embodied subjectivity that
move beyond hierarchical binaries to better adequate language to
embodiment. She argues that we use the concept of a field in rethinking the
practices/technè of corporeality. Due to the scope of this essay, there is
insufficient space to address the all-important question of gender, but will be
taken up in a longer study.
118
J Derrida, On Touching – Jean-Luc Nancy, C Irizarry (trans), Stanford
University Press, Stanford, 2005, p. 63.
119
JL Nancy, Corpus, Métailié, Paris, 1992, p. 9 quoted in Ibid, p. 63.
120
D Perpich, ‘Corpus Meum: Disintegrating Bodies and the Ideal of
Integrity,’ Hypatia, Volume 20 Number 3, Summer 2005, p. 76.
121
Nancy in Ibid, p. 76.
122
JL Nancy, The Experience of Freedom, Stanford University Press,
Stanford, 1993, p. 190. Nancy acknowledges the tension inherent in
recreating “the body” in discourse, but wants to eschew both the tendency to
arrest the affect, plurality and difference of the body, and the tendency to
reinstate the body as something un-representable. In the Western tradition he
questions, Nancy reiterates what other scholars have discussed at length;
namely, that the body has been set up as opposed to speech and language, and
to thought and rationality. It has all too often been figured as ineffable,
passive, material, un-representable, as, in other words, outside of or beneath
language and sense. Those selfsame opponents to this figuration of the body
have all too often reiterated this modality of thinking, he argues.
123
Nancy, Corpus, p. 192.