undoing architecture

i

between doing it and any theory of the ‘speaking’ subject[i]

undoing it

ii

between use and écriture feminine[ii]

misuse

iii

between home and ‘where and how to dwell?’ [iii]

nomadism

iv

between profitability and the gift[iv]

generosity

v

between property and porosity[v]

reciprocity

vi

between divisibility and two lips[vi]

multiplicity

vii

between the ‘self-same’ and mimicry[vii]

the ‘other’

viii

between scarcity and jouissance[viii]

abundance

ix

between calculation and the female imaginary[ix]

approximation

x

between efficiency and fluid mechanics[x]

excess

xi

the angel goes between and bridges[xi]

[i] Luce Irigaray, ‘Any Theory of the “Subject” has always been Appropriated by the “Masculine”’ [1974] Speculum of the Other Woman, translated by Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1985) pp. 133–146, p. 133.

[ii] Hélène Cixous, ‘Sorties’ [1975] translated by Betsy Wing, The Newly Born Woman, Susan Sellers (ed.) The Hélène Cixous Reader (London: Routledge, 1994) pp. 37–44, p. 43.

[iii] Luce Irigaray, Elemental Passions [1982] translated by Joanne Collie and Judith Still (London: The Athlone Press, 1992) p. 47.

[iv] Luce Irigaray, Elemental Passions [1982] translated by Joanne Collie and Judith Still (London: The Athlone Press, 1992) p. p. 73 and Hélène Cixous, ‘Sorties’ [1975] translated by Betsy Wing, The Newly Born Woman, Susan Sellers (ed.) The Hélène Cixous Reader (London: Routledge, 1994) pp. 37–44, p. 43.

[v] Luce Irigaray, Elemental Passions [1982] translated by Joanne Collie and Judith Still (London: The Athlone Press, 1992) pp. 63, 65 and 66.

[vi] Luce Irigaray, ‘Volume-Fluidity’ [1974] The Speculum of the Other Woman, translated by Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1985) pp. 227–240, p. 229.

[vii] Luce Irigaray, ‘Sexual Difference’ [1984] An Ethics of Sexual Difference [1984] translated by Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press and Continuum, 1993) pp. 5–19, p. 11.

[viii] Luce Irigaray, Elemental Passions [1982] translated by Joanne Collie and Judith Still (London: The Athlone Press, 1992) p. p. 61 and Hélène Cixous, ‘Sorties’ [1975] translated by Ann Liddle, La jeune née: The Newly Born Woman, Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron (eds) New French Feminisms (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1981) pp. 90–98, p. 95.

[ix] Luce Irigaray, Elemental Passions [1982] translated by Joanne Collie and Judith Still (London: The Athlone Press, 1992) p. 47 and Hélène Cixous, ‘Sorties’ [1975] translated by Ann Liddle, La jeune née: The Newly Born Woman, Elaine Marks and Isabelle de Courtivron (eds) New French Feminisms (London: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1981) p. 44.

[x] Hélène Cixous, Three Steps on the Ladder to Writing [1990] translated by Sarah Conell and Sarah Sellers (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993) p. 5. See also Luce Irigaray ‘Fluid Mechanics’ XXXX.

[xi] Luce Irigaray, ‘Sexual Difference’ [1984] An Ethics of Sexual Difference [1984] translated by Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca, New York and London: Cornell University Press and Continuum, 1993) pp. 5–19, p. 15.

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