At 11:25 AM 11/5/96 -0400, Mike Frank wrote: > . . . for if in fact we NEED some >"logocentric" clues to help us make sense of the flux of images that is the >visual world, why do we keep on privileging those images? . . . is it merely >on the basis of the convention of "mechanical reproduction" (as opposed to >human interpretation mediated by human will)? . . . or is there something >more going on here?? Offhand, this sounds like the "ideological undermining of the aural dimension" that C.Metz writes about ("Aural Objects", in _Film Sound_, ed. E.Weis & J.Belton), and that K.Silverman (among many others) discusses in _The Acoustic Mirror_, this long-standing axiology which pits the acoustic realm against the visual realm: IMAGE SOUND -------------------- Male Female Looking Listening Active Passive Reason Emotion Public Private etc... There are psychoanalytical theories which seek to explain this, but it has always seemed to me that they merely serve to confirm the dominant ideology rather than truly *explain* how it might have come about, in the "history of consciousness". I'd love to hear others elaborate on this... Philippe Mather ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O ---------------------\ /----------------------------------\ /-------------- he End | | The End | | T | | | | ather Productions | | (c) 1996 P.Mather Productions | | (c) 1996 P.M oy.cc.uregina.ca | | [log in to unmask] | | matherp@ler | | | | ---------------------/ \----------------------------------/ \-------------- O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]