Breaking a Long Silence
There are various reasons why there hasn’t been much ( = anything) here recently. One of them is that my hard drive self-destructed last week — and one consequence of that is that if you sent me any email between 11 and 18 December, you might like to send it again if you ever want to receive any kind of reply…
Oh, and if anyone knows where to get a transcript of the Pope’s recent ruminations on gender, please post a link in the comments. Usually vatican.va is pretty good about this kind of thing, but glancing through the site this morning I found next year’s new year’s message and his recent attempt to engage the world’s Hindus in some kind of conversation, but nothing about trannies.
(He’s had a public debate with Jürgen Habermas, hasn’t he? I don’t see why he shouldn’t go head to head with Judith Butler. It’d be great on YouTube, esp. if he showed up to discuss gender performativity in a dress.)
[Normal service to resume eventually.]
Welcome back Chris!
Haven’t found a transcript, but some lengthy quotes here:
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=14067&size=A
↓ Quote | Posted 23 December, 2008, 10:09 pmI’m assuming that some enterprising gender theorist has already said something about the fact that the officials of at least one of the world’s more ostensibly heteronormative institutions wear dresses.
↓ Quote | Posted 25 December, 2008, 12:48 amGood to see you back. As you probably run the oldest left blog going, I was hoping it hadn’t gone to digital heaven!
↓ Quote | Posted 29 December, 2008, 12:42 pmDespite the fact that I occupy, in many respects, the “farther shore’, I welcome you back.Your blog is consistently thought provoking and entertaining,even when wrong. When I ifinally get my Blog, Confessions of a Red Tory, up and running(with help from the computer professionals Iknow), Ihope that it will be half as good as yours, but Ihave my doubts.That is, of course, because I know it will be twice as good(just kidding).
↓ Quote | Posted 29 December, 2008, 12:59 pmRegards, Joseph, The beer drinkin’Papist.
P.S. To one of your earlier posters? What the hell is “heternormativity”?
A post script: the Habermas/Benedict dialogue has been published under the title “The Dialectics of Secularization:Between Reason and Religion” When European reviewer compared it to the correspondence of Benedict the 14th and Voltaire,which may be a bit of a stretch.
↓ Quote | Posted 29 December, 2008, 1:13 pmItoo would welcome apublic conversation between Benedict and Judith Butler,though I think the old boy would clean her clock.( I will shamefully admit to the fact that what I know about Butler comes largely from what Martha Nussbaum has written about her,which is a litltle akin to saying that what Iknow about Christianity is what Chris Hitchens has written about it.