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Oh my god - terrible news! 64 is a relatively young age to die, too. I had no idea she had cancer, but that explains why she hadn’t written much over the past year or so.
Ellen Willis was a huge influence on me politically, and not just on feminist/sex-positive topics, but on ideas about culture and media and about Israel/”The Jewish Question” as well. I think her instincts were some of the most consistently anti-authoritarian I’ve seen in any political writer, moreso than a lot of anarchists, in fact. about the only place I part company with her was in her devotion to Freudianism and Reichianism, which don’t disagree with on a philosophical level so much as I think scientifically they’re dated ideas about how the mind works.
She’ll be missed by me.
(I noticed the NYT obituary cribbed a bit from the Wikipedia article on Ellen Willis, which I largely wrote.)
more later, coz i’m swamped with the big move, housecleaning, work, and other things, but I found this Scientific American article fascinating. It was about how neuroscience has yielded results that buttress freud’s ideas about the unconscious, etc. I’ll have to look it up, but it was quite fascinating. Basically, the author was arguing that you still need a theory to interpret the result of neuroscience, in which case Freud may well have been observing the effects of the actual chemical and physical processes that make for all the rest. ack. that is so poorly worded — i’m frazzled from pulling an all nighter baby sitting a web site.
later, later. i’ll try to find the Sci Am article and scan it. It was spring 2003 I think. Maybe 2004.
rest in peace…and another addition to the reading list. it’s the best tribute i can think of…
Blogrolling: B
Here are some blogs that start with B: B and B Back To The Woom Backreaction Bad Astronomy Blog Badscience Balancing life Bark Bark Woof Woof Bartholomew Cubbins on RNA Beautiful Biology: Ramblings of a Science Teacher Bee Policy Beep!…
Wow. I never heard of Ellen Willis until now. So I just read two of her articles: 1. debunking Tom Frank 2. and the anti-anti zionist piece. Both were sharp thought provoking pieces.
I loved her writing