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A R C H I V E F O R T H E F U T U R E Karen Beckman I was delighted to read âs call for submissions to an archive for the future and was especially interested to see âthe phallus (a dead object?)â on the list of possible contributions. I was caught by the potential for comedy and flights of fancy that the archived (dead) phallus suggested, as well as by the difficulty of finding an appropriate form in which to submit this unwieldy concept (as an attachment, perhaps?). Although aware that the phallus is, in the words of Jane Gallop, âloaded down with the seriousness of ideological meaning and sexual history,â1 I wanted first to create a catalog of the bad (and good) jokes to which the phallus has given rise across generations of feminist theorists unable to resist the temptation to materialize, even anthropomorphize, this slippery concept, to pun on its proximity to the penis and imagine what they would do with this unwieldy thing if only they could get their hands on it. Gallopâs dry yet vivid assertion that âLacanâs system is explicitly phallocentric, and feminists find that central, transcendental phallus
Camera Obscura – Duke University Press
Published: Jan 1, 2007
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