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Griselda Pollock

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on August 22, 2011 at 9:43:18 am
 

Some opening thoughts, from Griselda Pollock's Tate Papers 15, 2011

 

http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/11spring/pollock.shtm


I imagine I am addressing a readership of Deleuzians, Phelanists, Rancierians, and Bourriaudists. Yet I have to evoke Raymond Williams and Alain Badiou and the idea of fidelity:  being faithful to an event still in need of its continuing elaboration, still virtual and hence still to come. My event is feminism. I consider feminism not as a past movement, but perpetually virtual and being created. Yet its unfinished business is currently at risk from a wilful erasure based on the imprisoning of feminism in a history that is over. Current intellectual neglect of gender and critical engagement with sexual difference because both have become embarrassingly démodé is not benign. A premature foreclosure of the still emerging critique of phallocentric power and violence has real implications in actual life worlds; critiquing phallocentric imaginaries and the Symbolic that inform our cultural realms remains as urgent as ever in a world that is daily increasing material as well as immaterial inequalities which impact disproportionately on women in real terms.  Cultural critics recognise the increasingly sexualized and asymmetrical Imaginary informing globalizing culture that we, that is the intellectuals, equally seem not only unwilling to shift but actively reinforce by ‘looking away’.


PROFESSOR GRISELDA POLLOCK

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