----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Johanning" <jjohanning at igc.org> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 7:28 AM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Abu Ghraib / Robert Mapplethorpe
On Friday, May 21, 2004, at 09:31 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> The subtext in question is the idea that the main problem of torture
> of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib is that it was sexual and therefore
> "particularly humiliating in 'Arab culture,'" rather than the presence
> of compulsion and absence of consent that distinguish rape and torture
> from consensual acts of sex in any culture.
Where "subtext," I suppose, means "something no one has actually said, but which you can 'read into' what people have said and then say that is really what they meant, and thus smear them."
God, I love postmodernism!
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Except that an anti-pomo advocate did it and the practice is a couple of thousand years old.
Pomo ain't monolithic. Don't smear 'it.'
Ian