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Such a variety of things I meant to post today. But this is what my mind kept returning to.
Still reading... still seeing links between Monster Theory and Disability ... Something.
Today's half-paragraph:
(Quote)
Similarly, Cohen has argued that the monster refuses “to participate in the classificatory “order of things”” and provides a significant challenge to binary systems of hierarchy, creating a need to re-evaluate concepts of order. He states that “the monster’s destructiveness is really a deconstructiveness: it threatens to reveal that difference originates in process, rather than in fact (and that “fact” is subject to constant reconstruction and change)” A keyword in this quotation, however, is ‘threatens’, since a monster such as the medieval dragon maiden may point towards artificial boundaries and ideas of order but she is never allowed to break them down. This limitation on her monstrous character is brought on by the context in which she features, as some medieval thinkers may have doubted the waythe world was ordered but they did not doubt that there was an order to the world. The truth was, as it were, out there and it was up to the human to try and understand it.
(Unquote)
{Meanwhile: the Chorus in my Head makes the following comment}
Of course the Human is the only one allowed to decide what Right and Proper Order is: It's whichever Order that puts that Human on Top.
(In the meantime, I'll be in the back, rooting for the monster. One of these days, she's bound to break through!
Still reading... still seeing links between Monster Theory and Disability ... Something.
Today's half-paragraph:
(Quote)
Similarly, Cohen has argued that the monster refuses “to participate in the classificatory “order of things”” and provides a significant challenge to binary systems of hierarchy, creating a need to re-evaluate concepts of order. He states that “the monster’s destructiveness is really a deconstructiveness: it threatens to reveal that difference originates in process, rather than in fact (and that “fact” is subject to constant reconstruction and change)” A keyword in this quotation, however, is ‘threatens’, since a monster such as the medieval dragon maiden may point towards artificial boundaries and ideas of order but she is never allowed to break them down. This limitation on her monstrous character is brought on by the context in which she features, as some medieval thinkers may have doubted the waythe world was ordered but they did not doubt that there was an order to the world. The truth was, as it were, out there and it was up to the human to try and understand it.
(Unquote)
{Meanwhile: the Chorus in my Head makes the following comment}
Of course the Human is the only one allowed to decide what Right and Proper Order is: It's whichever Order that puts that Human on Top.
(In the meantime, I'll be in the back, rooting for the monster. One of these days, she's bound to break through!
