Trajets de la différence sexuelle

Le présent texte se propose d’approcher, autant que faire se peut, les enjeux de la différence sexuelle — et cherche en particulier à dénouer les liens qu’entretient cette dernière avec l’écriture, l’autre et le sujet. Trois notions qui parcourent l’ensemble de l’article. Partant de ce qui s’écrit et se lit ici, le texte s’offre d’emblée à son commentaire et décrit les économies libidinales toujours déjà à l’œuvre dans les gestes philosophique ou théorique. Ces économies peuvent servir de première piste pour la différence et elles aident à la contestation des oppositions « naturelles ». Il faudra les relever par un cran supplémentaire dans la déconstruction ; pour l’instant, elles permettent de dessiner le premier labyrinthe de la différence. Où l’on finit par trouver la nécessité d’un sujet renouvelé, d’un sujet sexué. C’est lui qui permet la déconstruction de l’essentialisme et le déplacement du relativisme, sans recourir à la combinaison de ces deux positions d’opposition repérée dans le leurre du « culturalisme », cette affirmation de la construction sexuelle sur fond de positivité anatomique irréfutable. Preuve à l’appui avec une lecture de la différence sexuelle menée à partir d’une scène concrète et politique.Trips of sexual difference This article is an attempt to introduce a certain approach to sexual difference. Beginning with its own reading the text adresses the question of its commentary. There is no metadiscurse possible and likewise no metasexual position is available from which to observe sexual difference. Sexual difference is already at work in any approach to sexual difference. This approach is therefore double and divided in itself. On the one hand is involved a deconstruction of the binary oppositions that have traditionnaly ruled over Western thought, and in particular the opposition of man to woman. A first step is to consider male and female « libidinal economies » wich are anchored in some anatomical reality. They therefore serve to contest the grip of so-called « natural oppositions ». Thus the arid alternative between essentialism and relativism need not dictate the limits of sexual difference. No more than a « culturalist » illusion in which the affirmation of sexuality as socially constructed force back upon fondation of irrefutable biological positivity. On the other hand an attempt is made to conduct our reading of sexual difference with respect to a concrete and political situation

Physiology

Contains reports on seven research projects.Bell Laboratories, Inc.Ortho InstrumentsNational Institutes of Health (Grant 5 TO1 EY00090

Ordered Incidence geometry and the geometric foundations of convexity theory

An Ordered Incidence Geometry, that is a geometry with certain axioms of incidence and order, is proposed as a minimal setting for the fundamental convexity theorems, which usually appear in the context of a linear vector space, but require only incidence, order (and for separation, completeness), and none of the linear structure of a vector space.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/42995/1/22_2005_Article_BF01227810.pd

Fleurir

Hélène Cixous’s œuvre is a long continuous/discontinuous series of books that are proudly independent one from the other and at the same time deeply interdependent on each other. ‘Fleurir’ enters this Cixousian literary universe through a pair of books, Chapitre Los (2013) and Corollaires d’un vœu (2015), that present themselves as constituting a radical break in the long tradition of books to which they none the less belong. Meanwhile, one of the recurring and increasingly prominent themes of Cixous’s writing is the unwritten in and beyond her writing: what is left unwritten despite or through all of Cixous’s effectively written books. Indeed, her ‘Book-I-Don’t-Write’ must be understood as in some sense constitutional of her writing in all its length and breadth, an absence that is necessarily present as such in each of her texts. It plays a vital, paradoxical role, and its unwrittenness cannot be reduced to that of a simply as-yet uncharted territory – even if charting the still-uncharted is a theme or a practice that runs through all of Cixous’s writing. So we are surprised to learn that Chapitre and Corollaires constitute actual printed chapters or leaves, petals of this unwritten, unwritable book. And to learn, furthermore, that the latter consists effectively in Cixous’s ‘My Life book’, a recounting of certain events or experiences, certain intense relations in the life of the author. Admittedly, Cixous’s writing has always situated itself on the cusp of a certain autobiographicality, writing life into literature… and vice versa. However, these books bind life and writing in an unforeseen manner through a series of intense love stories in view of death, where the lines between life and literature can no longer be reliably discerned

Basic conceps of geometry

xix, 350 p.; 22 cm