Intrabinarial structurality

Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Thu, 11 Nov 1999 01:19:23 -0600

AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
 
> the orange peel thing was a recontextualizing of the dialog upon pumpkin into the fruit world, a dialog which had been previously informed by culinary centered readings (reflective, it goes without saying, of the white male stomach structure dominant in our society) but has now been placed in the vegetable realm.  This recontexualizing avoids the implicit phallogocentrism of vegetable readings while simultaneously associating "pumpkin" with "fruit," the natural, the beneficient mother-earth/goddess.
> 
> Jim

the root...

This paticular meta-narrative makes me uncomfortable, Jim.  The
fruit/vegetable binary is always invoked at the expense of the "root,"
in this case the excluded third voice whose silence is necessary for
the specious dialectic between fruit and vegetable to take place.  I
mean, aren't these quote-unquote dialogues between the two halves of a
binary system really just monologues of two?  So much illusory
self-presence masquerading as a healthy hetereoglossia?  Recovering
the trace of the silenced third can only enrich our reading with the
realization that  the conditions of structurality inhere not only in
the the binary itself, but in the space between binaries as well. 
 

-- 
Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu