Have new blog for my PhD stuff: Madness and Theory
From now on, all my theory in that area will be published there. At the moment there is just the conference notes crossposted, some more will be added soon then we’ll see how it grows.
Everything else will remain on here.
If the Napoleonic code in 1804 was one of the first attempts to create a legal code that would introduce the notion of absolute ownership, and this in essence was an actual codification of an attempt to control the woman’s phallus, then can we allow capitalism to take a woman’s form as metaphor?
So what of late capitalism, in Mark Fisher’s book Capitalist Realism he suggests that Francis Fukuyama’s book The End of History was much derided but the message quietly assumed. I would like to play with this idea a bit further using the metaphor of Capitalism as a woman, and at that as an attractive woman who had been in an unhappy and antagonistic marriage with State Socialism.
We can see Fukuyama as the guy who realising she had won the divorce with what looked like a particularly fortuitous settlement, not least because it looked like she got all the kids (although Uncle China had an eye on the family), decided to fuck her. Unfortunately he suffered premature ejeculation and was widely laughed at. However others had always seen her beauty and progressed to sleep with her, many of these men, and women, were more virile.
Her orgasm increased, however due to the psychological attentions of so many abusive lovers she had a breakdown, many of these lovers tried to medicate her in an attempt to get her up and fucking again, but perhaps if we move the metaphor back to people, a woman who had been through so much abuse would require someone to treat her respectfully and listen to her, she may well be full of self-hatred form earlier abusive relationships, thinking she was worthless and deserving of such treatment. Of course, in a professional relationship, but the best care would come from those who don’t want to sleep with her lest the relationship become abusive once more, perhaps those who don’t find her particluarly attractive but respect her rights as a human being. But most of all from those who see her as just one woman among many, all of whom are equally worthwhile.
[Edit 06/04/10: What the fuck was I on about there? But to flog a dead analogy; bank bailouts as maintenance payments? No fuck it, I'll leave this as a reminder of what utter shite I can come up with. Also concerned about my own allusions there that women only want to sleep around because they're damaged, which ain't strictly true.]
