Re: Genet. He was an incredible writer but, earlier in his life before meeting Sartre, writing plays and fame I sense a, 'ahem, fascist hyper-masculinity found say in Junger, no? (Jean Genet : From Fascism to Nihilism - by Harry E. Stewart, American University Studies : Series Ii, Romance Languages and Literature, Vol 205.) And, in one of his later works on the Palestinians and the Black Panthers,
(Title : Prisoner of love / Jean Genet ; translated from the French by Barbara Bray ; and with an introduction by Edmund White.) there is a frisson of attraction to The Other that is charged with elements of...these are BAD Motherfuckers who Mean What What They Say and tell Liberals to Go To Hell. Kiss The Whip And Love Not Given Lightly, as Lou Reed said on one of the songs on the Velvets first album... (Now, maybe I am a punk, a pimp and a PROVOCATEUR...)
Anyway, I'll cite a book, maybe Ken or Dennis has seen, "Hewitt, Andrew. Political Inversions: Homosexuality, Fascism, and the Modernist Imaginary." Stanford U. Press, 1996.Adorno gets a grilling here, from what I remember of a look see at the book. Michael Pugliese P.S. Genet : in the language of the enemy / [Scott Durham, special editor for this issue]. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, c1997. P.P.S. Scott Durham! He tried to get me to join the League of Revolutionary Struggle of Amiru Baraka and buy a pitbull! http://www.french.northwestern.edu/faculty/sdurham.html SCOTT DURHAM, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Yale. Specialist in 20th century literature, he is particularly interested in Foucault and Deleuze. He is the author of Phantom Communities: The Simulacrum and the Limits of Postmodernism (Stanford University Press, 1998) as well as the editor of a recent Yale French Studies issue on Jean Genet. He is currently working on a book on Deleuze, Godard, and Djebar.
Rene Magritte
Selected publications and achievements: "The Deaths of Jean Genet," and "Introduction: In the Language of the Enemy," in Yale French Studies #91 (1997); "Genet's Shadow Theatre: Memory and Utopian Phantasy in Un captif amoureux," in L'Esprit Créateur (1995).
"From Margarite to Klossowski: The Simulacrum Between Painting and Narrative" (October 1999)
Lectures delivered at the Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), University of California - Berkeley, University of California - Riverside, University of Pennsylvania, SUNY - Binghamton, Stanford University, Miami University, and Le Collège International de Philosophie.
This year Professor Durham will be the Jean Gimbel Lane Professor at the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities. He will be responsible for teaching the Humanities graduate seminar on "Cultures and Technologies of Time."