Minotaur


Minotaur II: Come back to this idea of the Minotaur here and try to get at how it works—could the Minotaurs be multiplicitous? Might the myths themselves—the collected fragments of scholarship—be the beasts we must encounter, the chance encounters, that cause that “flash of awakened consciousness” to blitz before our eyes? COME BACK TO THIS. Also, see Djuna Barnes Nightwood for more on the bestiality side of the Minotaur’s origins. This Minotaur idea might be a way into some of the concerns of the flaneuses. The men penetrate the labyrinth in order to murder and arise victorious. The women wish to copulate with this creature, head of an animal, body of a man…an inverse of the satyr which Henry Miller embraces so readily as a parallel self. See Borges’ story about the Minotaur that hardly defended himself in a labyrinth with no walls—the city itself. The idea of MONSTERS…. “The House of Asterion”

The Arcades Project Project is part of Heather Marcelle Crickenberger's doctoral dissertation entitled "The Structure of Awakening": Walter Benjamin and Progressive Scholarship in New Media which was defended and passed on June 27, 2007 at the University of South Carolina. The committe members are as follows: John Muckelbauer, Ph.D, Judith James, Ph.D., Dan Smith, Ph.D, Brad Collins, Ph. D., and Anthony Jarrells, Ph.D. Copyright 2007 by Heather Marcelle Crickenberger. All rights reserved. lems concerning what you find here, feel free to contact me at marcelle@thelemming.com. You are also invited to leave a message for me and other visitors HERE. The Arcades Project Project or The Rhetoric of Hypertext