Sublime

La deuxième, la Dionysienne, était une phase de transition au cours de laquelle les hommes prenaient le pouvoir et renversaient les fondations matriarcales originelles.

patriarchy mystifies technology, casting it as a domain beyond the possibility of comprehension for all but certain experts. Mystification hides the economics of accumulation that technologies serve, turning people’s attention to a marvelous innovation instead of the extraction it enables.

“The unpalatable truth must be faced that all postmenopausal women are castrates,” pronounced American gynecologist Robert Wilson in a 1963 essay;

Au XIXe siècle, l’anthropologue suisse Johann Jakob Bachofen prit cette entité archétypale pour une réalité historique objective. Il suggéra que l’humanité avait franchi tout au long de son histoire une succession d’étapes de développement.

women more than others will set their bodies on fire with passion for a savior and be willing to abandon the fear and love of comfort on which the modern state depends…them more than others, out of a wild and stupid enthusiasm.

The classical writers tell us that Iron Age society was arranged in a hierarchy that bears a striking resemblance to the ideal in Greek and Roman society: peasants at the bottom; artisans, bards and druids in the middle; then nobles; and a single chieftain at the lofty apex of a triangular or pyramidal structure. Women could only gain access to the