[-empyre-] Fwd: Re: oops - forgot about the formatting thing

[tracey@byte-time.net]

> > Thanks Branislava for entering the conversation and turning it away
> > from the usual terminology. I did try to find a copy of Time is the
> > Breath of the Spirit so I could get the full context of the
> > Ettinger/Levinas discussion but alas the libraries of Paris are
> > defeating me in this regard. It will have to wait until I'm back in
> > Anglophonia. I can certainly see a place for the idea of flight in
> > performance in general - its illusiveness, its history contra the
> > object. And more and more I wish to show myself less and less. But can
> > this be ascribed to the feminine? Anyone?
> > cheers
> > Barbara
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> > > Message: 1
> > > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:33:46 +0200
> > > From: B.Kuburovic <bkuburovic@volny.cz>
> > > Subject: Re: [-empyre-] Response to Stacia and 'feminine' identity
> > > To: soft_skinned_space <empyre@lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> > > Message-ID: <6503ee5e8354e409c289fd9a5acb4ad9@volny.cz>
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> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I'm joining the conversation as one of Barbara's future :-) writers,
> > > with just a thought/reference on the question of the feminine,
> > > unbracketed and perhaps not necessarily that easily linked to the
> > > issues of identity, more a quality to be worked with, much like a hue
> > > or a particular form of movement...
> > > B. Ettinger in conversation with E. Levinas speaks of the feminine  'as
> > > a flight before the light', and Levinas' response is:
> > > 'In other words: not to show oneself. A flight before demonstration.'
> > >
> > > I think this is far too interesting to be disregarded as  essentialist,
> > > the quality of flight feels particularly poignant for performance,
> > > perhaps even more so for the kind of performance where identities are
> > > simultaneous and multiple, for that could in a playful way be seen as
> > > work with this quality of flight, of never quite fixing, never quite
> > > showing, while in fact being very much there and performing.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > >
> > > branislava
> > >
> > >
> > >
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