Re: <documenta X><blast> The Die is Caste
Jouke Kleerebezem (jouke@xs4all.nl)
Sat, 13 Sep 1997 00:41:26 +0200
Greg Ulmer <gulmer@ucet.ufl.edu>:
> The method of the TESTIMONIAL (post-tragic, traumaturgy).
> To map the movement of borders in all dimensions, all scales,
>separating the inside from the outside.
> Celebrities are the place of emergence, siting a new experience of
>subjectivation. Maenads give way to paparazzi (sp).
> The theory guiding the formation of testimonial concerns
>identification.
> Correspondence.
> The disaster outside/the trauma inside.
> The flash of recognition.
> Hitting the wall, the piling, at 85mph, focuses attention, bringing
>the globe into synch, attunement.
> The feeling of being a person is: the me outside. The media giving
>being to alienation.
> The function of testimonial: to coordinate the looking upon disaster
>as a map of the inside and the movement, the circulation between
>particular and general, individual and collective.
> The city commissioners, the legislators, the boards of inquiry
> recognize
> the piling in the problem.
> The problem has a hole, like the pottery used by the dead.
> Solutions of the instrumental kind pour through the collander (chora).
> call the emerAgency.
>
>for the emerAgency
>Greg Ulmer
Necrophylia rules in media critique. It always did. The dead are easy catch
for the intellectual, they just float and need no bait. 'Princess Die':
...the cheapest wordplay, the cheapest excuse for poietics, analytics, the
clearest proof of the disembodiment of chauvinist intellectualism... gone
astray, lost in no balls emergency. Pathetic. Innocent.
The only thing piling in the problem is the excremental urge of utterance.
But slapping the media corpse doesn't release the pain of art.
We need no *answer* to what's happening out there. Should you be of a
different opinion, try something just a bit more complex: Algeria.
Jargonia. Macromedia. To name only three.
Jouke Kleerebezem Amsterdam
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