Wednesday, December 16, 2009

New low

"Césaire, by redeploying the sexual and textual excess that had for so long marked his inferiority, by marketing encephalitic démesure as priapic virility, attempts to draw a profit from colonialism’s cultural and material investment – both of value and of lack – in his physical, cultural, and textual bodies."

New thing: marketing lows as highs

1 comment:

Beneficent Allah said...

"Josaire asserts the Textual-Mextual consistencies of this tostadic phallacy with the guacamolity (le guacamolité: tellingly, a word of Francophone origin) that can only come from an ambivalent relationship with his own Mexitude"