> I shower daily at a local woman's college (after my swim), and I mourn the > bush! Truly I do. J
Featherstone was writing an article on this topic, she emailed SZ to see if he had any thoughts. He said, "No, and I hate myself for it!" He still hasn't had any thoughts, as far as I know. This is a guy who's written on different national styles of toilet. Doug -------------- A couple of years ago sitting on church steps for a smoke me and a much younger tech buddy were discussing the virtues of waxing. I had my suspicions... But Calvin swore by it as increasing the stimulation. Here is Zizek on toilets and ideology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=FJ73hLQ64Ng It's an interesting take. In brief, during Hegel's time the european world was composed of three ideological traditions, the French, German, and English. These corresponded to three distinct styles of toilets. The french style shit drops in a hole in back and disappears in a radical plunge. The german style the hole is in front and shit drops on a little platform where one can inspect it, shiff to determine one's state of health and then give the flush. In the english version shit falls into water, where it can float around before it disappears, a sort of liberal interpretation with economic overtones. These correspond to conservative german tradition, the radical french, and the pragmatic-liberal english. If I was going to apply Z's ideological principles to disappearing body hair, I would say, some complex over endless youth and eternal health with darker tones of Dorian Grey when a body can no longer sustain these illusions. Michael Smith sums it up in one word, Paedomorphism? But these cultural problems with the body go far deeper into the collective psyche. Consider what to do about a dead body. Then we are immediately thrown into metaphysics. Here is an interesting article on Roman burial practices and various changing belief systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_funerals_and_burial Evidently there was a Welsh tradition to send the cloths of the dead off as gifts to the living relatives. I still have several pairs of heavy socks my ex-wife's grandfather wore. They were given to me by my mother-in-law. They lasted for years because I never wore them until recently. CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
