[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> Analog to Digital Dj mixes coded language...

[t byfield <tbyfield@panix.com>]

dhenwood@panix.com (Thu 11/08/01 at 04:43 PM -0500):

> Quite the contrary, re: the toilet. Dominque Laporte argues in his
> profound and charming little book History of Shit
> <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0262122251/leftbusinessobseA/>
> that the toilet contributed heavily to the creation of the bourgeois
> Western individual.

a more limited, maybe flakier, but nonetheless pretty interesting 
argument along these lines can be found in some work, uh, emanat-
ing from an exhibition called 'the process of elimination' pulled
together by ellen lupton and abbott miller. (i think i misspelled
both their names.) in one such emanation, which appeared in _zone_
6 ('incorporations'), they argue that the development of central-
ized plumbing transformed 'the house' (which they treat as a hom-
ogeneous construct) into a homologue of the human body; i'm skep-
tical about that but there's no question that it did tend to iso-
late domestic interactions with water to two rooms--one of them a
new creature, i.e., the bathroom ('toilet,' 'washroom,' etc). and
to the extent that recent-modern bourgeoise mores are established
and enforced through architecture, there you go.

unfortunately, lupton and miller also go off on speculative rants
about how modernity's fascination with streamlining is 'actually'
an anal fixation. which could be true, but whatever.

cheers,
t
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