tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262352676109208112.post4034714977289388264..comments2023-03-30T06:09:46.872-07:00Comments on Amos Swaminathan's Blog Dying Seeds: Naked Subversions: Christ and SerpentAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07976975193412764029noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262352676109208112.post-25657880466958023022015-07-20T01:11:52.652-07:002015-07-20T01:11:52.652-07:00Thanks!!! Rowan for taking time to read and commen...Thanks!!! Rowan for taking time to read and comment. Thanks for pointing out to the oppressive 'gaze' which is to be pondered. And also for your insights turning attention to 'Christological act' that renders salvation. However, could it be that perpetrators should have their way with the body of the oppresed without even a mere resistance or atleast a meagre sublimation of representative body as act of shaming the other. That is what troubles me. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07976975193412764029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262352676109208112.post-2481728272195547642015-07-15T02:14:28.997-07:002015-07-15T02:14:28.997-07:00Hi Amos, it was a pleasure reading this! It does b...Hi Amos, it was a pleasure reading this! It does bring up a lot of issues though:<br /><br />To begin with Zizek talks about an instance in the Southern United States where slavery was still on where the gaze of the black slave does not possess the ability to humiliate naked white people in the act of lovemaking. <br /><br />Then the act of being naked can be viewed as liberative like in the life of (St Francis of Assisi who subverted social order by marching out of his town naked. Considering the fact that his father was into manufacturing clothes, he tacitly knew how hierarchy and clothes are intrinsically connected.)<br /><br />Another image I'd like to present is the "objective" gaze that Foucault talks about. Considering the fact that the Nazis were not shamed by the gaze of their naked Jewish victims, how do you expect perpetrators to be shamed by the gaze of another naked Jewish victim?<br /><br />This is how I understand this economy: To begin with the book is Christological and the victim in question here is not any victim that simply "disappears" but the Messiah himself. So there is therefore the question of power, so when the Christ returns, their eyes are unveiled and they see him for who he really is- The Lord of glory who allowed them and in a way empowered them to have their way with him. Remember Jesus said that if he wished he could unleash a legion of Angels but he knew it was not his Father's will? In a sense he allowed the perpetrators to complete their task of slaughtering him and he returns bearing the news of their salvation and that shames them. So the victims of violence only find their salvation only through this Christological act.<br /><br />Thanks for giving me this opportunity to think on these lines bro and your thinking is remarkable as always! <br /><br />(In response to Joe's comment, a friend of mine once visited Goa and a female Russian tourist exposed herself to him. She enjoyed the moment and so did he and so in a way pornography might not be so "beastly" as fundamentalists make it out to be but we need to exercise caution in this regard.)Rowan Moseshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12824461042501050474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4262352676109208112.post-32569568940101108742015-03-25T12:49:24.541-07:002015-03-25T12:49:24.541-07:00Hi Joe,
Its an interesting question. I admit, as ...Hi Joe,<br /><br />Its an interesting question. I admit, as of now I dont have enough competence to speak on the critical issues of pornography. However, Its a viable and very important aspect of naked bodies. Thanks for bring it to attention. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07976975193412764029noreply@blogger.com