Notepad and blog?

In our lecture about Structuralism we looked at binary opposition, the theory that there are absolute opposites yet one is always deemed superior to the other, for example:

good                   evil
God                  Devil
light                   dark

life                    death

hot                     cold

white                black

Apparently humans like to think in halves and create harmony and balance so much so that we are attracted to symmetrical faces and bodies. But i would like to counter this by presenting Viktoria, an amputee fetish model. Since her amputation in 2007 her physicality challenges the modern perception of beauty. Her asymmetrical figure is still appealing it also helps her stand out from the crowd giving her a unique and quirky edge. She's also hot. I also like scars.    

So clearly these values are ambiguous. For example, when does life and death begin? In Western cultures such as ours in the UK a child age begins at birth whereas in Korea, Vietnam and other Far Eastern cultures at birth you are already classed as 9 months old. I would say that that's just weird, a foetus is nothing more than a parasitic tumour until birth when it can sustain its own existence. Naturally hardcore Christians and peoples of various faiths would disagree with my view as they believe that the foetus is a human baby from the moment of conception. 

Even death can be ambiguous, Comas, vegetative states, pseudo-death and other phenomena can create an apparent state of death yet the person subjected to this state is still alive and capable of even return to being. Due to the relentless advance of modern medicine and machinery human beings can be kept alive without a heart, without lungs and other vital organs, yet doctors have decided that the brain is too far, once some one become brain dead the doctors advise that life support be turned off in this case. I'm not even going to start on Vampires or Zombies.

So clearly strice either/or catagories do not reflect real human experience there and large grey areas, also know as the anomalous zone or the zone of indeterminacy and when these anomalous zones are entered interesting, exciting, dangerous and even revolutionary things can happen. *Twilight Zone Music* For Example between good and evil dwells Dr Jekyll & My Hyde, Batman and Darth Vader. 

In between Life and Death there are Ghosts, Zombies and Vampires (Ooops) and Floating between Male and Female there are Hermaphrodites, Transsexuals and Crossdressers and we have Mermaids, Werewolves and Cyborgs dancing about between human and non-human. Yeeeeeeaaaahh I like the Anomalous Zone (*Writes new theme tune?*) Oooh! We could set this on a pier. James Joyce called a pier a 'disappointed bridge' and it is also a prefect example of an actual zone being an anomalous zone. The Pier stands between the land and sea, belonging to both and yet neither at the same time. For this reason, affairs, drugs deals circuses and other shady dealings go down on this disappointed bridges. There is an exception to this though, they call it Blackpool, The pier seems to extend throughout the whole town.

Stelarc should also be cast in this show coz of his ear-y arm (geddit?) xD