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