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Catttt Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

The limit of bodily matter

1. Does "stripping away of all accrued meaning to the limit of bodily matter" mean "ignoring all the limitations ascribed to the body"?


2. Does the green section mean "the fetish, considered as a defence against weakening (of women), always threatens to collapse the body into a disgusting chaos, a chaos which will be composed of blood and vomit, and will represent the denial nature of fetishism toward history and sexual difference."?


3. Does the pink section mean "On the whole, Sherman asks questions about the difficulty of the female body to escape these parameters, as the female body is potentially subject to the icons and narratives of fetishism"?



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For Mulvey, fetishism returns both in the glossy, high-quality finish of the photographic medium itself and in Sherman’s ‘stripping away of all accrued meaning to the limit of bodily matter’ in the later works. Erected as a defence against disempowerment, the fetish always threatens to collapse into abject chaos, the bedrock of blood and vomit which in its turn promulgates the disavowal inherent in fetishism, its denial of history, as well as sexual difference. Sherman ultimately poses a question around the difficulty of the female body to escape these parameters, subjected as it is ‘to the icons and narratives of fetishism’.

  

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catttt 1. Does "stripping away of all accrued meaning to the limit of bodily matter" mean "ignoring all the limitations ascribed to the body"? That is a quotation from Mulvey.

  • catttt 1.
  • Does "stripping away of all accrued meaning to the limit of bodily matter" mean "ignoring all the limitations ascribed to the body"?
  • That is a quotation from Mulvey.
  • Only those who have read Mulvey will be able to make sense of that, but I will take a stab at it and say no, it is more like you strip away the meaning (all accrued meaning) and are left with the object (bodily matter).
  • "To the limit" is a prepositional phrase used as an adverb for "stripping".
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catttt1. Does "stripping away of all accrued meaning to the limit of bodily matter" mean "ignoring all the limitations ascribed to the body"?

That is a quotation from Mulvey. Only those who have read Mulvey will be able to make sense of that, but I will take a stab at it and say no, it is more like you strip away the meaning (all accrued meaning) and are l

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