Re: <documenta X><blast>Home-affect and Co/in-habit(u)ation
Bracha Lichtenberg - Ettinger (bracha@easynet.fr)
Wed, 6 Aug 1997 12:36:39 +0200
GREG
concerning the hypothesis of the emerAgency, the question is how you
conceive this triangulation, how do you put these three elements together
and what is the function of "famous disasters": are they mythologicl
stories, transferred from an already existing symbolic treasure to give
meaning to the current "local manifest problems", in as much as actual
trauma isolates and reduces the field of meaning and "famous disasters"
provide meaning that can be commonly adopted? in such a triangulation what
you are doing is maybe adopting a symbolic meaning for imaginary unstable
phenomenon and painful real events. Can you by this approach the archaic
Thing?
Now, yesteray while I was further elaborating work hypothesis that might
follow from my last post a message arrived to the list - I erased it before
realizing its insight, so I can't repeat it or remember who wrote it - it
was about the difference between exchange of theory between artists and
theorists and a commercial use of this exchange. I would like to draw this
line as much as possible and limit my interventions to the first kind of
exchange. The other kind, as I was so sharply awaken to its scope, have
other rules and contracts. Where would you draw the line for this list?
Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger