Rachel Chick

2010 sketchbook

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2010 sketchbook

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2010 sketchbook

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2010 sketchbook

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2010 sketchbook

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Found an old sketchbook- 2010 sketches by yours truly !!

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Found an old sketchbook- 2010 sketches by yours truly !!

"it’s not a matter of freedom of expression but freedom of degradation."

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“it’s not a matter of freedom of expression but freedom of degradation.”

- right wing activist Ben Gvir of Tel Aviv

Photo

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Photo

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30&park pepela

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30&park pepela

wrking on things

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wrking on things

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Thats the problem

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Thats the problem

"Greeting rituals are flexible and dynamic, re- arranging pace and elements within the repertoire..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:49:00 -0400

“Greeting rituals are flexible and dynamic, re- arranging pace and elements within the repertoire that the partners already share or can cobble together. Smuts defines a greeting ritual as a kind of embodied communication, which takes place in entwined, semiotic, over- lapping, somatic patterning over time, not as discrete, denotative signals emitted by individuals. An embodied communication is more like a dance than a word. The flow of entangled meaningful bodies in time—whether jerky and nervous or flaming and flowing, whether both partners move in harmony or painfully out of synch or something else altogether—is com- munication about relationship, the relationship itself, and the means of reshaping relationship and so its enacters.34 Gregory Bateson would say that this is what human and nonhuman mammalian nonlinguistic com- munication fundamentally is, that is, communication about relationship and the material–semiotic means of relating.35 As Smuts puts it,“Changes in greetings are a change in the relationship” (). She goes further:“With language, it is possible to lie and say we like someone when we don’t. However, if the above speculations are correct, closely interacting bodies tend to tell the truth” ().
This is a very interesting definition of truth, one rooted in material– semiotic dancing in which all the partners have face, but no one relies on names. That kind of truth does not fit easily into any of the inherited categories of human or nonhuman, nature or culture. I like to think that this is one treasure for Derrida’s hunt to “think the absence of the name as something other than a privation.””

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26# When species meet

by DONNA HARAWAY

"The primordial form of sex is one organism ingesting but not digesting another. The undigested..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:33:55 -0400

“The primordial form of sex is one organism ingesting but not digesting another. The undigested continues to live, now inside the other. A radical intimacy ensues.”

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Notes from Underground

Claire Pentecost

I am not sure I agree with this .. but its funny in its...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:25:00 -0400

I am not sure I agree with this .. but its funny in its extremity .

"Money as we know it has an obliterating function: it lets you forget all the human and nonhuman..."

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:23:39 -0400

“Money as we know it has an obliterating function: it lets you forget all the human and nonhuman effort it takes to sustain life.”

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Notes from Underground

Claire Pentecost

Declaration of Desire

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:02:00 -0400

” Being loved makes me feel directly the gap between what I am as a determinate being and the unfathomable X in me that causes love. “

I was taken by Lacan’s definition of love - “Love is giving something one doesn’t have …’-has to be supplemented with ‘…to someone who doesn’t want it.”

A clique to go w/ the point: You want what you can have.

Love attaches it’s self to you. Any declaration of love can be violent - obscene- like something intrusive is being forced upon you. The Lover as a Tick ; okay this metaphor is not entirely accurate because it only describes the “pest” like quality of love.

Here is an example of the dualities of love that tick metaphor fails to capture: After the tick declares violently his love for Rachel. Rachel looks at the Tick , raises her hands and desperately starts to kiss him; so the problem is not that she did not like him and did not desire carnal contact from the tick. The problem for her was, on the contrary, that she did want it- but : What right did he have to stir up her desire?

I will leave you with a few more questions; that I hope will serve as a Segway to my next academic post about Lacan’s ideas of “Fantasy”.

How are we to avoid the traumatic impact of being too directly exposed to this terrifying abyss of the Other ( the tick ) ?

How are we to cope with the hazardous encounter with the Other’s desire?

Here is a clue: Fantasy as Segway.(inspired by close reading of LACAN WITH EYES WIDE SHUT; How to Read Lacan, zizek )

One to compare . This was made last summer.

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One to compare . This was made last summer.

note:lead line

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note:lead line