of their illegibility-at a scale that is global, and radically local.
On Mar 6, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com
agora...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Christina, allow me to dissent a little bit :)
At the Intifada the women had a very crucial role, I met Leila Khaled some
years ago
I am bit curious about how did the people who travelled to Istanbul for the
first time experienced the city itself, Turkey and all the contradictions
and the multiple layers of meaning residing in this old city where all the
remnants of it's past are crumbling away. As you know many Turks want to
western europe, where only the buildings remain ... extented families and
village cooperative solidarity also remain realities, as far as I could
ascertain from speaking with Turkish friends (I gave a lecture to an
all-turkish audience yesterday)
Michel
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:36 AM, Ana
:43 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
I was there a week only but all ppl I met (Turks everyone) told me they
felt
the turkization and the erasing of the Byzantine past, very well
related
in the book From the Holy Mountain, by William Dalrymple.
He did a trip between the monasteries
. It was a regionally specific version of the
debates about fast food culture (convenience, taste, expense), but one
that I could very easily relate to, but never would have even noticed
had I not been staying with Turkish friends.
Davin
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote
Sorry to come so late into the discussion but I have been really busy
gathering the guests to the next month's topic in -empyre. I am a bit
concerned about the relation between the reproduction of knowledge and the
ability to generate changes in the paradigms ruling our quotidianity.
Using the
and deleted it, I don't really know if it's going to
help but it made me feel good :)
Ana
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Lasse Scherffig lsche...@khm.de wrote:
Thanks, Tero, for starting this interesting debate. I just want to jump in
on one point Ana Valdés raised:
Am 27.02.2012 16:42, schrieb
I am impressed and feel me humble and grateful to all the friends joining
me in this discussion.
So much knowledge, so much expertise, so much joy of sharing and exchanging!
I lived for 34 years up in the North, Sweden, I am back in the deep South,
Uruguay, and try to make bridges to connect the
Hi Ethel and I am so happy you introduced yourself in such a flamboyant way
:)
I am not familiar with the Occupy Movement (the two cities I live between,
Stockholm and Montevideo, are very lawful cities :) nobody occupies :)
But I know a bit of the Arab Spring, I have been in the Middle East ten
are dealing with here is a truly networked
phenomenon: these movements and spaces are first constructed online,
and only then move on to the bricks-and-mortar urban space. But this
doesn't mean that this phenomenon is new and unknown.
@Ana Valdés: you should locate and talk to Olaf Westphalen from
Let me tell about Nablus, one of the oldest cities in the world, with one
of the oldest souks in the world, protected by the Unesco as one of the
world's heritage.
The Israel army had the city besieged almost one year with curfews every
day and often the whole day. When the curfew was lifted,
Dear Leo, as someone been living in Stockholm since 1978 and relocating to
Montevideo last year, 2011, I am quite familiar with the situation in
Stockholm and in the rest of Sweden. I was myself a part of Sweden's small
but active anarchist movement. It was some small occupations and squatting
but
That's the spirit, Ethel! To pose questions is often more creative than
tell answers :)
He or she who answers have a tendence to interpret facts and believe there
are answers. I think creative questions are far more complex than give
answers,
I think this is -empyre's and other forum's role in the
of an
occupation. Occupation could be a common device if it interprets and
proposes interesting common structures.
Aristide Antonas
University of Thessaly, Greece
Sent from antonas iPhone
On Mar 5, 2012, at 13:12, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
That's the spirit, Ethel! To pose questions
PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you Antonas and all for so interesting views! I want go back to the
concept of commons, which is one of the most important concepts in urbanism
and in politic. The idea of a common wealth based on the work of everyone
is an old concept negotiated
Dear Pablo, thank you for joining us! Your perspective and insights are
very welcome here!
To my fellow empyre comrades I want tell you Pablo is a very dear friend to
me and we have been following each other since 2004, when Pablo,
Hackitectura and Klein.org organized the Fadaiat meeting in
I wanted to share a link related to Pablo's work in Fukushima
http://www.scoop.it/t/cartas-desde-fukushima
Ana
--
http://www.twitter.com/caravia15859
http://www.scoop.it/t/art-and-activism/
http://www.scoop.it/t/food-history-and-trivia
http://www.scoop.it/t/gender-issues/
There are many of you who named Olav Westphalen and his research at Mejan,
Kungliga Högskolan i Stockholm, the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, here comes
the invitation for a seminar about it. A pity I am not in Stockholm now.
Ana
Welcome to *Performing Recalcitrance,* a week-long public programme
-20120306,0,718441.story
My very best to all,
Ricardo Domingue
http://bang.calit2.net
On 3/5/12 9:07 PM, Ana Valdés wrote:
There are many of you who named Olav Westphalen and his research at Mejan,
Kungliga Högskolan i Stockholm, the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, here comes
of students and activists marched on the state Capitol on Monday
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-protest-20120306,0,718441.story
My very best to all,
Ricardo Domingue
http://bang.calit2.net
On 3/5/12 9:07 PM, Ana Valdés wrote:
There are many of you who named Olav Westphalen
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On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 1:06 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks
Hi friends, first welcome to my good friend Alicia Migdal, a writer and
literary critic, who is going to be one of our guests next week.
She posted now as part of the conversation and I tried a translation for
all our non-Spanish speaking subscribers.
Please bear with me, I am not a native English
:
http://dprbcn.wordpress.com/2010/08/10/secret-tunneling/
Best,
Ethel
_
Ethel Baraona Pohl
dpr-barcelona
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 8, 2012, at 16:00, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Ether, I think you pinpointed it clear, the relational city is, for
me, indeed, a form
Dear all, I am very happy about the broad range of our discussion! Next
week we are going to have two writers and I am delighted to see some of
them (Leandro, Alicia) already participating...
The examples raised by Alicia, the publisher house Eloisa Cartonera and
their Uruguayan syster, La propia
My favorite bookshopowner called me today and he told me the copies of
Benjamin's book I bought from him will arrive on Monday. It made me
incredible happy. I think few intellectuals of this century thought so
broad and so deep about the homo urbanus, the persons inhabitating the
houses strolling
,
Eduardo
On 3/8/12 7:45 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear all, I am very happy about the broad range of our discussion! Next
week we are going to have two writers and I am delighted to see some of
them (Leandro, Alicia) already participating...
The examples raised by Alicia
for the
life of its people, and then for people more generally. But this is
only a power trick of signification, a way of talking about life
through material metaphors. That Chan reference on this thread,
really illustrates this idea quite nicely.
Peace!
Davin
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Ana
I knit an imaginary thread between Damascus, Jerusalem and Istanbul, three
cities dear to me. They share a complex past, they have been capitals of
mighty empires streaching itselves far from their territories. Istanbul was
Byzantium and Constatinople before and the populations became a hybrid,
Dear Johannes, I was struck the same way as you after the description of
Athens as a trruly European city. I have been in almost the whole European
continent and never found two cities similar to each other, not either the
Scandinavian capitals, in the perifery of Europe, almost like the Romans
The Polis Blog is one of my favorite readings, combining urbanism, art and
activism.
Here they write about informal settlements and how to work to make them
sustainable.
http://www.thepolisblog.org/2012/03/can-co-production-bring-infrastructure.html
I am sure when Teddy Cruz join us we are going
On Sunday/Monday (depending of which continent we are and our calendars and
watches :) are we finishing our first week of discussion in -empyre. I am
deeply grateful to every one who participated with enthusiasm and
generosity and I want thank specially to Ethel Baraona and to Pablo de
Soto, our
March 2011 on –empyre soft-skinned space moderated by Ana Valdes (UR) with
Brian Holmes (US), Alicia Migdal, (UR) Ethel Baraona Pohl (SP), Pablo de
Soto (SP), Carlos Urzola (US), Sabela de Tezanos (UR), Diego Hernández
Nilson (UR), Leandro Delgado (UR), Eduardo Navas (US), Ricardo Dominguez
(US),
Please friends I am swimming in deep waters here :(, translating by myself
(a Non-Native English speaker) texts written by two writers I admire for
their language skills :( It means my English is not going to make their
texts justice but it's only a way to facilitate for those of you who can't
Please friends I am swimming in deep waters here :(, translating by myself
(a Non-Native English speaker) texts written by two writers I admire for
their language skills :( It means my English is not going to make their
texts justice but it's only a way to facilitate for those of you who can't
This week I feel the discussion is changing tone and adding new voices new
registers new shades of knowledge and feelings. We are having emotions
here, too seldom discussed on electronic exchanges or in cyberculture. I am
one of the few of my generation familiar with videogames, as a woman and as
I am an urban dweller, it means I only enjoy the cities, any city, the
feeling of many people moving around busy with their own lives.
Last year I worked at the Swedish National Direction of Travelling
Exhibitions, an institution with 40 employees and a beautiful new building
in the city of Visby,
I am reading again Peter Weiss The Aesthetics of Resistance, the best
description of Berlin together with Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz. The city
is described as a hub of energy, as the place where all converge, where
utopian thoughts and political work blends and interact.
Curiously I don't find
of this?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
I am reading again Peter Weiss The Aesthetics of Resistance, the best
description of Berlin together with Döblins Berlin Alexanderplatz. The city
is described as a hub of energy, as the place where all converge, where
/13 Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com
Interesting references, Alan! The Living Theatre is an important part of
my own past, they defined themselves as anarchists and I met them in
several opportunities.
But going back to Weimar and to Weiss and to Anita Berber and Valeska
Gert, I am not aware
Sending it again, I guess it was stucked in the interface, sorry if you get
two copies!
Ana
-- Forwarded message --
From: Alicia Migdal aliciamig...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:13 PM
Subject: tango lyrics and the evolution of the city
To: soft_skinned_space
Dear all, I am so impressed and happy for the great input and the quality
of the discussion we carry on here! As someone coming back to my homecity
after 34 years of abscense living abroad (Stockholm) it's vital to me
understand the codes and the networks working here in Montevideo, a city
still
Dear all: I wish introduce in this conversation a reference to the axis
North-South or since I write from the South, the axis South-North.
The Spanish-Uruguayan painter Joaquin Torres García has a famous work from
the 30:s where the map of America i(both North and South) is reversed,
pointing
Dear -empyrians, I has been working hard this week making translations of
the wonderful wellwritten and inspirating posts made by my friends Alicia
Migdal and Sabela de Tezanos, two of the most lucid intellectuals I know
and extraordinary writers.
I had already difficulties with Sabelas first
Thank you dear Johannes for your generous words! I feel exactly what you
say, I moved some months ago from the North-North (Stockholm) and I am now
living in the deep South. It's challenge and I agree with you, as an
intelectual belonging to the North and to the South I think my duty and my
Thank you Pedro, gracias!
Ana
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 11:35 AM, pedro pedru...@gmail.com wrote:
hi ana
i can help you with the translation if you like, send me offlist.
thanks to everybody by the way, really enjoying the list
best
pedro
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Ana Valdés
Teddy, wonderful post, thank you for it! It made me think hard and to try
to back to myself. Yesterday on a military base, a human body was
recovered. Bones and clothes, nothing more. Today the remains are being
examinated by doctors and judges. It's not CSI, it's reality for the whole
South
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:18 PM, ARISTIDE ANTONAS
antonasoff...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear Teddy Cruz, dear Ana Valdés,
Strategy is the topic to discuss, because the phenomena we are into can
only keep a continuity to the past through the inertness that you described
as the last important refuge
Dear Renate, many thanks for your warm words! You should know in my nomadic
life and heart (Uruguay, Sweden, Palestine and many other places) -empyre
and Netbehaviour, hosted by our wonderful Furtherfield friends, has always
been home to me.
I am so happy I could gather this month people I admire
Thank you Lucio, Brian, Teddy and all participating in the discussion in
the last two days! I feel very inspired and very challenged here, because
we are discussing things at the macro level and at micro level.
How can we change things in the suprastructure and in the everyday life?
How can we
or can we think other possible systems of civility, within this given
frame? Who will be the subject who would fight for what urban protocols?
Aristide Antonas
Athens
Sent from antonas iPhone
On Mar 18, 2012, at 3:28, simon s...@clear.net.nz wrote:
Dear empyreans, Ana Valdés, Teddy Cruz
Dear all. I am really grateful for being participating in this forum.
Through this week I felt empowered and much richer, a constant instance of
reflexion. I am sorry for not having so much time to answer to all your
appreciations, links and contributions.
Thanks to all and more specially to Ana.
Dear empyreans: I got a message today from Leandro Delgado warning me about
his problems this week with deadlines and work. And Diego moved this week
from Montevideo to Florianapolis in Brazil to continue his phd.
Conclusion: we change the order of the guests and I asked Teddy Cruz and
Brian
, and in this sense I think that cities are
amazing social organisms that reflect the diversity and complexity of the
people who dwell in them.
Eduardo
On 3/13/12 2:46 AM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
I am an urban dweller, it means I only enjoy the cities, any city, the
feeling of many
Hi Brian and Johannes! Johannes, thank you for your magnificent translation
of Sabela's post and thank you to Brian to write and answer to Alicia's
great post in Spanish! It's really a necessity to be able to write and read
in other languages than English if we really want to reach deeper.
I think
Dear Teddy, Spanish should be spoken as widely as English to equilibrate
the North-South relationships! :)
I change often during the day between my three languages, Swedish, Spanish
and English, a very exotic mixture of languages, I agree :) and I am always
happy to be able to change skin (to
Yes because I respect people's difficulties of reading good Spanish (as
much I respect Sabela's and Alicia's difficulties to read and write in
English). I mean we addopt as convention using English as linguafranca, as
the Ancient adopted Latin as common languag who made people born in
Germany,
Dear Lucio, dictatorships are never clear to understand or can control the
whole spectrum of social life. I was in Baghdad last year attending a
journalist conference, in the middle of the Green Zone, and the most Iraqui
people we met, translators, high educated people, many of them had spent
some
Thanks Simon to add another South to the discussion! I agree full that
nobody can demand from the Occupy movement other things than the movement
already does, create an emotion, a feeling.
Of course all the movements have their own agenda but it's not, as you
said, an unified agenda. We no longer
I think again we are speaking about a notion of State, a notion of society.
Since Modernity we are applying a model based on universal values. But as
the German sociologist Dietmar Kamper wrote in a heated polemic with Jurgen
Habermas, Modernity gave us concentrations camps and nuclear warfare as
Yes dear Ethel, the wonderful concept of glocality!
Ana
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Ethel Baraona Pohl ethel.bara...@gmail.com
wrote:
Act Glocal?
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Hi Nicholas, Salvatore, Michele, Simon and all, I am so happy this
discussion is so rich and reach so many levels!
I loved your Maps of Babel, Salvatore, I tweeted it today when I got it
through the Spectre list!
I think it's a red thread knitting the different points where the
discussion has gone
El término resiliencia, en español, como me pregunta Johannes, es utilizado
sobre todo en el psicoanálisis, como capacidad de superar adversidades
extremas.
Hace dos años se estrenó en Montevideo una obra teatral de Marianella
Morena con ese título, que escenificaba el texto de Carlos Liscano
of the self.”
Kind Regards,
Michele
-Original Message-
From: empyre-boun...@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au on behalf of Ana Valdés
Sent: Tue 3/20/2012 1:05 PM
To: soft_skinned_space
Subject: [-empyre-] translation of Sabela's text
The actual extended practice of the tattoing has their roots
As always Johannes you make my skin crawl :) (and I say that in a really
good sense, flattering your capacity of provoking new readings and deeper
discussions :).
I spent a few hours with Sabela today and we laughed heartily off the
different levels and skins the discussion is navigating through
Oí por primera vez el término resiliencia de parte de unos biólogos que
investigaban desde una perspectiva paleoambiental los bañados y humedales
de la costa oceánica uruguaya. Lo usaban para referirse a la capacidad de
estos delicados ecosistemas para adaptarse a cambios en el nivel del mar
(que
Sorry for the delay but translate into English is a tough job, guys and
gals! :) It took me twenty minutes to find the crossreferences to Deleuze
and Guattari in English :( I read them in French Spanish and Swedish, never
in English, the Wikipedia was not helping this time :)
I heard for first
I heard for first time the term resilience from some biologists
investigating from a paleoenvironmental prospective the sanks and humid
zones from the Uruguayan oceanic coasts.
They used it to describe the capacity of those sensible ecosystems to adapt
to changes in the sealevel (the sea went
And I am not sure how many of my guests are still on schedule for this
week. Depending of different things many of them has not being able to
participate actively in the discussion, Pablo is moving to Brazil to make a
PhD, Diego moved to Brazil to continue his PhD (Brazil is hot in academia,
seems
Dear Johannes, I am so thrilled by your brilliant exposition and synthesis
of the whole month's conversation!
But I react a bit about your comment I know nothing about exhumation. I
read your book some years ago (Performance on the Edge: Transformations of
Culture) and I found very interesting
New community functions will be necessary in order to prescribe a protocol
or to install it temporarily. The Internet can provide the grouping system
in order that concrete communities of inhabitants decide to introduce and
test a protocol. The municipalities may act as the legalizing power that
(if it does) and how animality in all
these examples shows and allows a relationship with humanity (if it does)
different from all we can know and understand from our comfortable animal
lives.
Best,
Leandro
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
New community
Thank you Alejandro for an interesting text! And Brian and Teddy!
After reading all those posts regarding the city and it's possibilities and
challenges I was thinking about the origin of the cities. Who made the
cities and for whom the cities were built? I think I need to go to Diegos
rich text
Dear Johannes, I apologize if I went too hard on you :( But I and my
fellows and friends here are a bit too sensitive with the issue exhumations.
I feel that death and mourning are related and if you deny someone the
mourning you are denying this person the grief, the reconciliation with the
death
Dear Johannes, I wish I had had the ability of reading you entirely :)
When I was writing about mourning I was not writing against you but
with you, I mean trying to add some personal reflections on the
subject/topic exhumation/death/mourning/performance
And by the way I feel this month's
Hola a todos,
ha sido importante para mí leer las últimas intervenciones de Johannes,
porque toca la médula de un tema social e individualmente muy delicado.
Cómo exhumar el trauma y cómo revalorizar los rituales sin que éstos
pierdan su trascendencia es un interrogante doble que nos toca a
Dear friends, today is the last day of the month and it's the last day of
the moderation of -empyre I took at the beginning of the month.
It has been a awesome month with great exchanges and an exciting and
inspiring discussion in English and Spanish, I feel a curious mixtiure of
relief and
Ana Valdés
11:58 PM (33 minutes ago)
to soft_skinned_s.
Dear friends, today is the last day of the month and it's the last day of
the moderation of -empyre I took at the beginning of the month.
It has been a awesome month with great exchanges and an exciting and
inspiring discussion in English
Pedro no pude bajar el pdf, hay un problema, lo puedes revisar?
Pedro, I was not able to download the pdf, it was a format problem, can you
check it?
And Brian I was very excited about your use of Foucault. For me Discipline
and Punish has been a pivotal book, teaching me about powergames and
I am going a bit skeptical here, I was also involved in the Moderna Museets
discussion about the institution's own role and Museum Futures was a part
of it.
I arranged two seminars at the Museum, one about gender and one about
postcoloniality. But the Museum was not able to use the conclusions
Dear -empyre fellows and dear Brian: I think this is the biggest challenge
today for all of us thinking radical but needing all the time compromises
and agreements with the System to keep us afloat economically and socially.
Can we generate and reproduce radical thoughts and radical actions within
Brian, Pedro, Jennifer, all. I think, again, we are writing or reading us
in a loop, where thoughts and facts and opinions emerge from a deep feeling
of insatisfaction.
We are all writing/thinking from the privilege, we have the skills of the
language, we can formulate our thoughts, we publish our
My friend the architect Marcus Novak coined used often the concept liquid
architecture. Within the concept were a broad array of elements and forms
adapted both from Boals Theater of the Opressed to Gayatri Spivak
subaltern theory, a continuation itself from Gramsci's theories.
In Novak's terms
, the wickedary) - cut the control lines - but its so
pervasive, the control, we're guerilla aware, like saying nosotras
because we feel that way.
Maybe we need to invite literature back to the party.
xxx
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
My friend
be like a text ?
Should it be ?
best
p/
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
Pedro, of course we need invite literature to the party! :) I am in my
very
soul a writer, a storyteller and know the potential of the words. I
think in
the last month
Haha, Johannes! Sorry if my bad formulation made you (and others :) to
believe it was Alfredo's installation which is now safeguarded for eternity
(I think the Mormons have a claim that the Lord is going to keep them,
their chosen relatives and Salt Lake City as preserved remnants of
Humanity,
One of the best curators I had the priviledge to work with is Sarat
Maharaj, one of the most modest and low key curators I know. Born in South
Africa of Indian ancestors Maharaj was the co-curator of Documenta XI. He
is a researcher at Goldsmith and a professor in Lund, Sweden at the Art
Academy.
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/800410/can-artists-help-us-reboot-humanism-in-an-over-connected-age
I found your article very interesting. I share with you a healthy
skepticism of the new coined expression The New Aesthetic.
What it means? An aesthetic based on the sharing of shallow content
I was thinking again about my friend the curator Sarat Maharaj, born in
South Africa but of Indian ancestors. He works both at Goldsmiths College
in London and in Sweden, in Lund.
We discussed once the paradox where Western (European and North American)
Art was now a kind of universal paradigm to
By the way and speaking about Aboriginal Art, did someone read this article
and do you have more information? I think it's pretty colonial thinking to
justify that. Again, what do we call Art? Is our Western Art more worth
to save? Is Western Art an universal measure of Art? (Yes, I know the
In my nove to Montevideo I shipped almost my entire collection of books,
around 3000 books now crambling my small apartament in Montevideo. I look
often at some of the Art cathalogs of the exhibitions I saw and loved,
Documenta X wonderful political texts, L'Immateriel, Lyotard's postmodern
I saw in the city of Umeå in the North of Sweden a very interesting
exhibition, Lost and Found Queerying the Archive. The curators Jane
Rowley and Louise Wolthers built the show around some central and
pivotal questions: identity, love and sexuality. Many of the voices
presented are anonymous,
Hi Alan and good luck in your month here!
Interesting in reading about Monika's work, I was very concerned with
these topics when I wrote my book about torture and violence and
history. As maybe many or you know since my earlier participation in
-empyre I was a political prisoner in Uruguay when I
Dear Johannes, as I wrote in my answer to Alan, I am sad I don't have
a clue how to avoid these ads in my text, I guess this is the prize to
pay for a free digital hosting :(
I am now poor as a mouse :) moved back from the First World with all
it's glamour to the non glamorous and poor Third
of this discussion.
Monika
Sent from my iPad
On Oct 3, 2012, at 2:13 PM, Ana Valdés agora...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear Johannes, as I wrote in my answer to Alan, I am sad I don't have
a clue how to avoid these ads in my text, I guess this is the prize to
pay for a free digital hosting :(
I am
For me the lament is a kind of collective catharsis, as the mourning
itself. I has been in Palestine several times and see and listened to
the collective mourning of the women when some of their relatives or
friends are killed or buried, a kind of powerful roaring, not the
claiming not the
I think mourning and lament are related to the ceremonies of the
death. When I did my research as anthropologist I travelled to Mexico
and did a fieldwork in Yucatan, the old Maya empire. Their funerary
pyramids, specially in Palenque, were very similar to the Egyptian
pyramids. Many scenes
The nearest I was from a massgrave was Jenin, 2002, people were eerie
silent around the hole wich was Palestine's ground zero. Under the
hole were dismembered people, restaurantes blown in pieces, ashes,
bones, lonely shoes.
I wrote some texts from there, http://www.this.is/jenin
In the total
Beautiful text, Monika! When I was a child (I was a very precocius
reader :) and read history of Rome and Greece. My favorite was the
history of Carthage and I was shocked how the city was erased and the
Romans threw salt in it to avoid the Carthagineses should build it
again.
These horrible fate
, gray like our grand zero in 2001,
created a stark contrast to the rest of the city, a reverse monument, a
whole, a living wound.
On Oct 5, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Ana Valdés wrote:
Beautiful text, Monika! When I was a child (I was a very precocius
reader :) and read history of Rome and Greece
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