From a Representational to a Holographic Paradigm: The Emergence of Female Power

Abstract

This paper is an attempt to investigate female power as it asserts itself in the world today. This investigation compares and contrasts female to male power, the latter interpreted in terms of the forces that have sustained patriarchy throughout the centuries. My premise is that the assertion of female power subtly relates to the dynamic and non-hierarchical worldview emerging, on the one hand from contemporary physics and quantum theory, and on the other from French deconstructive practice. This practice propounds a revolutionary manner of naming and hence of shaping the perceived. Thus, I rely on the works of David Bohm, a theoretical physicist, and those of Jacques Derrida, the dean of deconstructive theory. llltiinately, this paper argues that in the forging of the new worldview women as well as men will play active and ever-creative roles.