“…first, the confusion of the ontological status of the character with that of the reader; secondly, the decentring of the reader's consciousness, such that she or he is, like the character, endlessly displaced and ‘differing’; and, thirdly, the political and ethical implications of this ‘seeming otherwise’, shifting from appearance to different appearance in the disappearance of a totalized selfhood’[such that there is]‘a marginalization of the reader from a centralized or totalized narrative of selfhood’[which renders]‘the reading subject‐in‐process as the figure of the dissident. (Docherty, 1996, p. 67)…”
Section: Dispositionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Docherty argues that exile itself is a form of dissidence ‘since it involves the marginalization or decentring of the self from all positions of totalized or systematic Law (such as imperialist nation, patriarchal family, monotheistic language)’. Hence, Docherty puts forward the proposition that postmodern characterization, ‘construed as writing in and from exile, serves to construct the possibility, for perhaps the first time, of elaborating the paradigmatic reader … as feminized’ (Docherty, 1996, p. 68) ‘always dispositioned towards otherness, alterity’.…”
This article is about the way in which the processes of diminution and elaboration can be detected in gendered accounts of identity formation. Firstly, it considers the ways in which power is denied to women through a series of reductions, restrictions and controls, and looks at the ways in which men, in contrast, elaborate their identities via a range of enlargements and extensions. The codex of the title refers to the role of the 'Law', in Kristeva's sense of the term, in authorizing such arrangements. The codpiece offers a metaphor for elaboration and extension: a male form of extension and elaboration. The codicil, an appendage to a last will and testament, is intended to convey the position of women as appendages, afterthoughts, marginal notes. The article is an example of what Pullen and Rhodes have called 'dirty writing', that is to say, it is written with the purpose of allowing the intrusion of the author into the text: with a deliberate confusion of the authorial standpoint and the content. Dirty writing contaminates. This article is written with the intention of contaminating the regulatory mechanisms of the production of the codex, to reveal the enormity of the codpiece and to permit the codicil to assume a role within the codex rather than simply occupying the position of appendage to it. The article is not auto-ethnographic, although it has elements of autobiography. Rather this article seeks to 'undo' gender by fragmenting the coherence of the codex. More tentatively, it seeks to lay bare the male erection which is concealed by the codpiece and to expose it for what it is: an elaborate construction -an elaborate creation masking a less adequate membership. And so this piece of writing attempts to undermine the extravagance of masculine forms of writing; of writing to produce the codpiece, writing as conceit; writing which is antagonistic to fragmented experience. It will not satisfy some, it will irritate others. The article is
“…first, the confusion of the ontological status of the character with that of the reader; secondly, the decentring of the reader's consciousness, such that she or he is, like the character, endlessly displaced and ‘differing’; and, thirdly, the political and ethical implications of this ‘seeming otherwise’, shifting from appearance to different appearance in the disappearance of a totalized selfhood’[such that there is]‘a marginalization of the reader from a centralized or totalized narrative of selfhood’[which renders]‘the reading subject‐in‐process as the figure of the dissident. (Docherty, 1996, p. 67)…”
Section: Dispositionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Docherty argues that exile itself is a form of dissidence ‘since it involves the marginalization or decentring of the self from all positions of totalized or systematic Law (such as imperialist nation, patriarchal family, monotheistic language)’. Hence, Docherty puts forward the proposition that postmodern characterization, ‘construed as writing in and from exile, serves to construct the possibility, for perhaps the first time, of elaborating the paradigmatic reader … as feminized’ (Docherty, 1996, p. 68) ‘always dispositioned towards otherness, alterity’.…”
This article is about the way in which the processes of diminution and elaboration can be detected in gendered accounts of identity formation. Firstly, it considers the ways in which power is denied to women through a series of reductions, restrictions and controls, and looks at the ways in which men, in contrast, elaborate their identities via a range of enlargements and extensions. The codex of the title refers to the role of the 'Law', in Kristeva's sense of the term, in authorizing such arrangements. The codpiece offers a metaphor for elaboration and extension: a male form of extension and elaboration. The codicil, an appendage to a last will and testament, is intended to convey the position of women as appendages, afterthoughts, marginal notes. The article is an example of what Pullen and Rhodes have called 'dirty writing', that is to say, it is written with the purpose of allowing the intrusion of the author into the text: with a deliberate confusion of the authorial standpoint and the content. Dirty writing contaminates. This article is written with the intention of contaminating the regulatory mechanisms of the production of the codex, to reveal the enormity of the codpiece and to permit the codicil to assume a role within the codex rather than simply occupying the position of appendage to it. The article is not auto-ethnographic, although it has elements of autobiography. Rather this article seeks to 'undo' gender by fragmenting the coherence of the codex. More tentatively, it seeks to lay bare the male erection which is concealed by the codpiece and to expose it for what it is: an elaborate construction -an elaborate creation masking a less adequate membership. And so this piece of writing attempts to undermine the extravagance of masculine forms of writing; of writing to produce the codpiece, writing as conceit; writing which is antagonistic to fragmented experience. It will not satisfy some, it will irritate others. The article is
“…Therefore, tests are designed to create the motivation to not only achieve higher levels of fi tness, including physical activity, but to also change current and future lifestyles [22][23][24]. Tests should measure and develop positive attitudes and habits, teach self-evaluation and self-control and thus, encourage active lifestyles [25][26][27][28].…”
SUMMARYAim of the study. Evaluation of differences in health-related fitness (H-RF) among adults residing in the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship due to age and with regard to socioeconomic factors such as: level of education, place of residence and financial situation.Material and methods. The study was performed using the method of observation of 1,032 people aged 20-59 years, including 517 women and 515 men. Morphological, muscular, motor and cardio-respiratory components were taken into account in the assessment of physical fitness focused on health (H-RF). The examined group comprised people representing various stratification systems in terms of gender, age, education, place of residence and financial situation.Results. It has been found that health-related fitness (H-RF) is significantly differentiated in society. Age is the factor most strongly differentiating various components of adult physical fitness. On the one hand, this reflected strong regressive and involutional changes that occur over the course of time, yet on the other it confirmed intergenerational changes. In addition, factors which significantly differentiate various components of adult physical fitness include place of residence, level of education, and financial situation.Conclusions. Higher levels of education, better financial situations and living in a city are associated with more desirable levels of various components of adult physical fitness and are indications of optimum health levels. Th e social differences in physical fitness among men are more evident than among women, which is probably connected with men's higher eco-sensitivity.
“…5 Docherty reads the implicit assumptions of a static, definable (and defining) relationship between a Self and Other as being contested by postmodern characterization. This mode of characterization, he argues, opens the narrative to the possibility of change -thereby opening it to historicity itself.…”
mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…''Postmodern narrative,'' he writes, seeks to circumvent the phenomenological elaboration of a definable spatial relation obtaining between a transcendent ontological reading subject and an equally fixed and non-historical object of that reader's perception, the ''character''. 5 Docherty reads the implicit assumptions of a static, definable (and defining) relationship between a Self and Other as being contested by postmodern characterization. This mode of characterization, he argues, opens the narrative to the possibility of change -thereby opening it to historicity itself.…”
Salman Rushdie's fiction is the writing of capitalist neo-colonialism. We see this in the fiction's celebration of cultural eclecticism and hybridity, the reification of local cultures and traditions into so many consumerist choices and lifestyle options. Rushdie's fiction has come to stand, almost emblematically, for the writing of postcolonial literature, a literature that somehow reconciles the untroubled textual playfulness of a consumer culture with the historical and political legacy of anti-colonial struggle. The writing allows us to evade the necessity of concrete political and ethical choices. It provides us, as in the case of Rushdie's The Moor's Last Sigh, with a text self-consciously constructed from a multitude of other texts, each chosen to further the eclectic range of the hybrid, postcolonial work. Every dilemma faced by a character, each troubled judgement reached by a reader, all are absorbed into the mis-en
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