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Chapter 10 - Errors and expectations: the ethics of desire in Finnegans Wake
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In the final version of the letter in Finnegans Wake, the one most directly linked to ALP, she remarks: ‘Well, here's lettering you erronymously anent other clerical fands allieged herewith’ (FW 617.30–1). The author of the letter, who goes by various names in this book, including that of ALP herself, suggests here that she writes anonymously. As Yawn's interrogators have already stressed, the Wake itself is a letter ‘selfpenned to one's other’ (FW 489.33–4). That the letter is ‘selfpenned’ suggests that it is addressed to the self who pens it; that it is penned to one's other suggests that the self is the other, so that the letter can be said to be from the other to the other. In terms of its ultimate sender and receiver, or its origin and end, the letter is anonymous, though one could argue that particular subjects – for example, Maggie, ALP, Issy, Shem, Shaun, and so forth – mediate the other in themselves insofar as they occupy the location of the sender or the receiver. Shem as the writer who transcribes the speech of the mother, Shaun as the postman who carries the letter from sender to receiver, both signify the subject as a figure of mediation between the radical alterities that the women embody as objects of HCE's or the sons's patriarchal desires. In some sense, the letter comes from and goes back to the women.
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4 - Deconstruction and responsibility: the question of freedom in the place of the undecidable
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What does criticism want?
What does it have to have to constitute a beginning? Does it have to want or be wanting as the condition of saying anything? Does the process begin with some form of absence?
Or at least with a difference?
I have tried to raise the question of the political in art in a context in which such a question is hardly novel. Yet I have raised the question of the political only to shortcircuit the question itself. If art cannot be politically correct, can it be political in any meaningful sense? To give an example, in her more negative reading of The Crying Game, bell hooks suggests that the film is “conservative- reactionary” by comparison with a more conventional Hollywood melodrama, The Bodyguard. The former suggests that transvestites and homosexuals in general hate women to the extent of battering and killing them, that heterosexual white men will surrender their homophobia and enter homosexual relationships with black men in order “to get that ‘down-home’ service only a ‘black female’ can give,” and that the world should just forget about the messages of recent race and gender theorists and become the exclusive domain of white heterosexual couples. Hooks implies that art can and should be politically correct, that content must take precedence over form in the determination of value.
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On a rainy afternoon in late December 1992, I walked from one side of Manhattan to the other in order to see The Crying Game. I had been attending a meeting of the Modern Language Association and wanted to escape the chaos of the academic marketplace for a few hours by sitting in a dark theater with other moviegoers. I have loved movies all of my life and believe that the pleasure one takes from the cinematic process derives in part from being with others and participating in their most intimate fantasies without violating them or being violated by them. In the darkness of the movie theater, our fantasies somehow manage to coexist, perhaps because the community of moviegoers is so absent-minded. In any case, something happened as I watched the movie that afternoon. It was nothing mystical or mysterious but more like an experience of concentrated distraction. Yet when I left the theater, I could not get the experience out of my mind. Though it started as a distraction, it soon became an obsession; and out of my need to say something about it, I began to write this book. Though I can never convey to the reader what the experience was (and have not ruled out the possibility that it is a myth), I know that in some form it has entered into the intellectual process that lies behind this work.
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2 - Art as the absolute commodity: the inter-subjectivity of mimesis in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
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True art challenges its own essence.
Adorno, Aesthetic TheoryThe aesthetic thing
The true work of art is never politically correct.
Such a statement is not meant to comfort or support the neoconservative critic in higher education today who makes it his or her business to reduce the unmanageable and sometimes irresponsible power of art to some sort of apolitical pap for nourishing the illusions of the status quo. Such an institutionalized art reinforces the belief in a transparent social reality by insisting on the absolute difference between art and life. Reality, it says, is concrete and particular, while art is abstract and universal. No one worships at the altar of the universal with greater show of devotion than the traditionalist; but at the same time the traditionalist secretly laughs at the intellectual Don Quixote who imagines that those things which are universal have anything to do with the way people are required to live in a world that was not constructed to be a work of art. Art, says the traditionalist, is contemplative and useless – a sort of second thought about the course of history after it is no longer possible to do anything about it.
1 - Redeeming contradictions: from critical theory to cultural studies
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Adorno, culture, and film
The reification of a great work of art is not just loss, any more than the reification of the cinema is all loss … Both bear the stigmata of capitalism, both contain elements of change … Both are torn halves of an integral freedom, to which however they do not add up.
Theodor Adorno wrote these words from London to Walter Benjamin in a letter dated March 18, 1936. They articulate the promise of a unified culture that expresses “integral freedom” although they dismiss the possibility of realizing this promise as the simple addition of the two halves of culture, high and popular or mass culture, in a capitalist society. Some years later, in the essay “Cultural Criticism and Society,” written in the United States before his return to Germany at the end of the forties, Adorno expressed his reservations about the concept of culture itself, by which he means, in this context, high culture. He suggests that cultural criticism makes culture into a fetish by isolating it from larger social processes. Neither art nor philosophy, when they are true, are ever complete in and of themselves.
3 - Sexual nations: history and the division of hope in The Crying Game
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So perhaps there is hope for our divisions yet.
Neil Jordan, Introduction to The Crying GameThe culture industry
When I began writing this essay, Neil Jordan's film, The Crying Game, was still in release at theaters throughout the United States. One could argue that to make such a film the object of a critique whose method in some sense derives from Adorno's Aesthetic Theory undermines the spirit of Adorno, who once described the culture industry as a form of mass deception. This thought carries even more weight if one keeps in mind that the success of The Crying Game is in part the result of an ingenious advertising ploy. I remember hearing about this film on National Public Radio shortly before its release. The reviewer faithfully explained that he could not reveal the plot of The Crying Game because it contained a number of unexpected reversals. The point, he seemed to suggest, is that you never really know what the film is about; with each reversal, it changes directions so dramatically as to call into question the meaning of what has happened up to that point. Beyond this observation, the reviewer revealed nothing except that the film involved the Irish Republican Army, Northern Ireland, and a hostage.
For the next few months, before I saw the film, I was fascinated to see how it compelled silence from spectators and reviewers alike on what soon came to be known as the secret of The Crying Game. Already a few skeptical critics were saying that the film's secret was just a gimmick, but even they refused to give the secret away.
Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture
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This 1997 book explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of cultural studies. It applies the theories of Adorno, Derrida, and Lacan to film studies, and asks how political responsibility can be reconciled with the concept of the university as a democratic institution. Art and the university, Patrick McGee claims, share a common feature: they are commonly regarded as autonomous realms that resist the determination of economic and political interests, while still playing a crucial role in ethical and political discourse. Through detailed reference to Neil Jordan's film The Crying Game, McGee shows how film can be both a product and a critique of the culture industry. He goes on to analyse the function of the university in producing interpretations of such highly political art forms and in determining the limits of critical discussion. McGee links Adorno with Derrida to provide a new route through cultural studies and the claims of political criticism.
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