Re: [-empyre-] 'Bare LIfe' -- a lyrical and even ecstatic dimension

[Aliette <aliette@criticalsecret.org>]

Once more I apologize for my very bad English.

Waiting for Conor's responding but following jacky sawatzky I want to tell
from my part where I see the joyful situation becoming from the depression;
sorry if my following words answering to Christina can appear through my
explanation from ZZ's action as a criticism of Deborah's message but really
unfortunately.

I just want to insist from my part on the positive critical event to the
world cup and to the public of football under the eyes of the world ?of the
TV screen? ; people specially criticized on nationalism and machismo (can be
in homo or hetero sexual presentation) by ZZ's whim (blow of head in all the
sense of the terms). Even it would be negative to his team at the proper
moment. By this critical way leaving the stadium (as last match by the
player) he is the medium of inaugurating a new episode of the screening
stadium... I mean rather less of his proper life after playing football,
than of football after he leaves it by this blow as we regard to collective
tribute that can have an impact.

Quote from Spectre ( Saul Ostrow ?of another vision of Arts [for example
versus testimony concerning our debate] ) :

" If we think about art as an information based system rather than a
category of objects much of this discourse concerning what art is goes away
- the question then becomes what kinds of information (and knowledge) does
art traffic in both in the specific (the art work) and in the general as a
cultural organ".

With Bare life in Art we are not in this alternative but a changing
alternative; by a strange way returning to the symbolic signification of the
existential rupture between the signs and the 'bare reality,' that creates a
new system of representation from a part, as a true event not being art, and
from the other part: or the methodology to get phenomena from bare effect as
Art or to inventive situation of Art as bare effect.

Really in this opportunity of the critical event of the world cup by ZZ
whatever he wanted or not wanted make a collective event from his very
personal part, yet it is one event of emergent bare life in the rule of
football that informs otherwise of the global public and of his
representative scene.

So, I think that it is over passing bare life as "'Bare LIfe' -- a  lyrical
and even ecstatic dimension" by bare life as the emergent stochastic
dimension of the raid in bare critical reality, in real time of the changing
cultural adjusted society (may be the cultural adjusted society regarded
equal to the domain of sovereign power at Agamben's)... The same of hard
disasters but here not being a hard disaster just a cultural schism.

To follow the actual example: apparently after the acting moment, the image
of Zidane himself has not changed even no more the one of the outside
national view of France (that could be all the contrary the bare image of
France: insubordination to the rule and personal comportment to common).

What is really changing but the image of the cup and of the world cup?
through the perfect star but forgetting the rule at the ultimate moment that
means a disappearance of the game or a leaving?

The interest being in the reorganization of the chain of signification from
a rupture by the fate random of an individual signification (bare life),
which installs consequently a fate random selection to a new chain of next
collective significations or rules... For example in football: using
currently video as tools of arbitrage in the future, or/ and changing the
ethic rules on the grass (not only the struck and knock but the words), can
be the rule of the disappearance of the racist or neo fascist provocations
on the playing fields which claim "raising human rights"? What can I tell
more or a lot of other possible opportunities?

(Having examples corresponding with the specific evocation, but a lot of
other fields or domains, or other failing comportments, could be quote or
imagined as possibly positive to the collective but not a war).

Can be a complete involution of mass games signification, regarding the
original antique Roman circus which played with the slave condition offered
by the power to the enjoyment of cruelty of the people (as symbolic
exchange); or may be more an involution of the traditional reference of the
primitive Olympic stadium, where people having his proper youth in
competition it installs a model of plastic academic beauty... regarding the
transcendental collective representation in a lyric identification it is
exactly the opposite which happened any days ago, a rupture of the rule
becoming a depressive event of the traditional emotions and representations
of the current world cup.

A sort of initiatory test of the end of a world which the meanings change
and more: one as several (the public) having to adapt themselves together to
the change.

So not the idol but the myth (remembering of Kenji Mizoguchi's film that
Jean Eustache was always telling of: title in English "The sacrilegious
hero" (?) ? to tell it easy and fast: a bastard who destroy the sacred
palanquins that provokes the access of the samurais to the power without
making the war.

At last something current as you told of Joyce prediction, but able to make
over pass Situationist happening and urban unitary act more theory by the
stochastic dimension as radical critical emergence of unknown predictable
fate random events of significations.

A.