which "Lamentations" are you refering to?
(not Martha Graham's Lamentation?)
Book of Lamentations in English
All Sandy and I are/were on about, I think, is the silence and the
obdurate that occurs in relaton to severe pain; I'm thinking for example
of my mother shortly before her death, when she had been anesthetized to
alleviate her suffering in the hospice. The silence is also the silence at
the heart of the signifier; the signifier is both suture and broken
suture, covering and dis/covering pain, naming it for those who are
suffering, who can no longer hear the name, who are no longer with us,
coffin or not - when my father died, there were issues at the cemetary
about the burial of ashes.
- Alan
Alan schreibt:
public lament and gardening
On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Maria Damon wrote:
Is there then (I'm sort of assuming the answer is yes, but asking anyway in
order to make it part of the fabric of the conversation) a way in which
lamentation is also critique as well as community self-constitution, as in
Lamentations?
Maria, I wonder what sort of critique would be possible? Lamentations
seems to bridge the political and the obdurate. When pain becomes
overwhelming, silence is at the core and the signifier dissolves; I think
this is also the core of anguish. One is left speechless. On the other
hand, how much clarity is necessary for political or 'rational' thought?
In an odd way this also brings up mathematical thinking - which, from an
outsider point-of-view, seems based on the manipulation of symbols, but
from within is much more of clouded movements with indeterminate focus
(see Jacques Hadamard). Thinking itself, in other words, may well have
less content than its representations, and certainly its representations
in virtual worlds, where everything, one way or another, is determinate
and rationalized on a pixel-by-pixel level.
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