Is e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest.
Luce IrigaraySexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.
Luce IrigaraySelf-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as different.
Luce IrigarayDeath is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mรฉlรฉtรจ (preparation for death; Plato, Phaedo, 81a). Indeed, without death there would hardly have been any philosophizing.
Luce IrigarayBe what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
Luce Irigaray...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materialityโ -luce irigaray
Luce IrigarayIs e=mc2 a sexed equation? Perhaps it is. Let us make the hypothesis that it is insofar as it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are vitally necessary to us. What seems to me to indicate the possible sexed nature of the equation is not directly its uses by nuclear weapons, rather it is having privileged what goes the fastest.
Luce Irigaray