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On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Erik Ehn wrote:
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(for some reason, I can't quote directly here)
The technocrats of light, I keep thinking of scorched, of scorching, of
the annihilation of language, body, history, past reduced to a telling and
invention by others. The past was never the present, never translates;
"what I remember" for example of the "Vietnam era" is just that -
quotations. All the way back, Sartre in Imagination described the image as
imaginary in both senses, that it's a presence/construct. But that
requires someone to do the constructing. I think of Barrett's post as well
- if there are images that literally block or destroy by their vehemence
- or better yet, experiences that produce post traumatic stress syndrome
where, among other things, the mind keeps tunneling inescapably around the
same moments of anguish - what then? (What if contemplation is
impossible?)
- Alana
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