Dominance Of Vision In European-Imposed Model Of Knowledge Mischaracterized As Privileging Of...

Dominance Of Vision In European-Imposed Model Of Knowledge Mischaracterized As Privileging Of Divination

“An article on Saturday about ‘Otherwise: Queer Scholarship Into Song,’ at the Dixon Place performance space in Manhattan, quoted incorrectly from a comment by Ann Pellegrini, an associate professor at New York University, while she was impersonating the gender theorist Judith Butler and deconstructing the lyrics of ‘The Girl From Ipanema.’ She said that the lyrics reflect ‘the ocularcentrism of the Western episteme,’ not the ‘oracular-centrism.’”