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Seymour
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Date Joined Jan 2002
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| Posted 3/19/2002 2:57 PM (GMT -6) |   |
Today’s title is:
”Why I Post in Beige,” or “A Theology which Leaves no Footprints, No, I Take That Back, No, I Take That Back Too, I Take Back Even My ‘No,’ Rather: Sweep Swee Swe Sw S … .. .”
Do any of you know of a cool new thinker named Helene Cixous (pronounced: Sih-sue)????? ???? ??? ?? ?
She is really really REALLY cool.
She writes in milk. No seriously, its true. All the cool kids are doing it.
I like writing in beige because really what I’m doing is writing in milk, even though churchmouse can’t read what I’m writing, that is the wonderful point for Cixous.
She has tried to write both positive and negative theology at the same time. This is really the only healthy way to do theology at all. Sometimes I get worried that Doc’s theology is too topheavy on the positive side, he runs the risk of turning his theology into an idol and worshiping his theology instead of God. A healthy dose of negative theology is the cure for idol worship, we can all run around with hammers and tap tap tap away.
But Cixous is different. She does both at once all in one stroke. You see every statement we make about God we immediately have to take back as soon as we make it. Even the name “God” is not good, or even the name “wholly other” or “beyond” or “infinite” or any name for, what can we call ‘it’…’God’? Well none of these names work, we must all erase them as soon as we give them, we must take them back, knock them down, no that’s not quite it, no. We must say no to everything we say Yes to right after we say Yes to it. Yet we must still say Yes, always Yes. There is also risk in saying No too much.
So Cixous writes in milk, its like invisible ink.
But it is also a reminder of Mother.
I always imagine those cartoon creatures in Disney (if ever there was an evil corporation Disney is it. It didn’t start out evil, but it is now!) version of “Alice in Wonderland, one of them is a dustpan, and the other is a whiskbroom, and both have little feet. As they walk in the magical woods they both leave little footprints, but the whiskbroom sweeps them up into the dustpan and they leave no trace of ever being there. That is how Cixous does theology. As soon as she steps down she sweeps it back up, as if she wasn’t even there. She writes in milk.
I write in milk too.
Sweep Sweep Sweep Swee Swe Sw S … .. .
. .. …P.S. I ought to delete this post as soon as I post it, and I will, but first I’ll wait like Samuel… .. .
"When Zarathustra had spoken these words he beheld the people again and was silent. 'There they stand,' he said to his heart; 'there they laugh. They do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears."
Edited by - Seymour on 03/19/2002 7:57:54 PM | | Back to Top | | |
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