For a second forgetting D/G, it seems to me that if it were shamanic, it would in fact be a form of becoming-animal; I've read a fair amount into Inuit and Native American shamanism at times, and this is paramount. But the artist is working within the art-world, and the real content of the piece it seems to me is one of risk - a foreign blood presenced within what we assume is a natural order of fluidity. What I miss btw in Stelarc is precisely the shamanic, the becoming - it's attachments, no matter how organic, and while he puts his body at risk (as does the artist here), the mind is busy with the theorization of prosthesis. In this way, it's kind of a 19th-century approach: to become-X means to combine (human, X) in a formal manner...
Anyway, when one speaks of 'rigor,' I do think of the long and endless philosophical discourse on scientific experimentation; I tend not to think of exempla. But that's probably just me. - was going to make a pun about hoarse blood, too much speaking and theorizing... but thought better of it .. but then . - - alan == email archive http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/rd.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
