Fwd: [-empyre-] part-fish?

[The Paul Annears <the.paul.annears@gmail.com>]

Sent by the magic of the web-human interface to Ms Ballard...and
hopefully now via the same magic it will arrive at that
delightful...soft_skinned_space.


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From: The Paul Annears <the.paul.annears@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 20:27:02 +1300
Subject: Re: [-empyre-] part-fish?
To: su b <suballard@optusnet.com.au>


Zeno's Paradoxes, I would suggest, are not concerned with proving that
Achilles can never overtake the tortoise but rather confront the
thinker with the reality of conscious thinking.

There are many examples.

There are Zen and Sufi exercises.  A film by Almodovar or Campion or
theatre by Lemi Ponifasio or Antonin Artaud, does something similar.

Likewise as Derrida so lucidly demonstrated, it is possible to use
words to deconstruct our wordy world, and the illusions we feed
ourselves.

It may be that we are moving to a more co-operative phase regarding
relations between Maori and non-Maori.  Or maybe not.

There can be no doubt that the Maori who are reclaiming the land that
was taken from them are a different tribe from the Maori who their
land taken away.

A Paul Annear


On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 09:48:00 +1300, su b <suballard@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> On 13/01/2005, at 9:27 PM, The Paul Annears wrote:
>
> > Doesn't this factoid suggest that a 'pakeha' living in Aotearoa will
> > be part Maori, a and Maori living in New Zealand will be part
> > 'pakeha'?
> >
> At the risk of burnt fingers, no. We can live amidst each other, we can
> infect and colonize each other's spaces, we can learn from each other,
> but we can never claim to 'be' each other, for to do this homogenizes
> histories, beliefs, genealogies and the very things that these films
> try to teach us.
> .
> su
>
>


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