Feminist critics’’have often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, ’’ as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists’’ predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other. It can be inferred from the passage that the author would be more optimistic about optical computing if which of the following were true
A．Digital partitioning algorithms could be applied to electronic, and not just optical circuits. B．The speed of photons could be shown to be significantly greater than that of electrons. C．The precision level in basic operations can be substantially increased without great expense. D．The accuracy of electronic circuits used to preprocess input data and post- process data could be greatly increased. E．The microchips optical computer systems were shown to require an increasing density of interconnections.