Re: [-empyre-] on existence

["Ana L. Valdés" <agora@algonet.se>]

Hi Michele, really interesting to speak about the "victim". As Agamben 
writes in Homo Sacer, the victim or the doomed are sacred, they became 
"divine", they break or expand the boundaries between themselves and the 
others.
I am now rereading one of Euripides most fascinating tragedies, 
"Alkestis". The story of the young queen who choose to die instead of 
his husband struck me, why did she chose to became a victim?
Was it a proof of love, sacrifice, denial or a proof of strenght?
I think the challenge to all of us is to discover in all our individual 
situations the "border" between our conception of ourselves and the 
sheer existence.
You did that in New Orleans, I did that in the jail, other people do 
that in sickness, or in the lost of someone dear...
I was in the Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin in April 2002. A 
photographer colleague and me were among the few civilian who suceeded 
after climbing the mountains for hours to go into the city, which had 
been besieged and shelled by the Israelian army for ten days (very 
similar to what happen in Gaza today), we saw the destruction of the 
city, bombed and bulldozed, we smelled the sweet scent of the bodies 
buried under the tons of stones.
People there were sitting in the ruins of their distroyed houses, what 
kind of life they levt?
This is the link to my texts and Cecilias images, http://this.is/Jenin

Ana


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