Re: [-empyre-] cages

[Christiane Robbins <cpr@mindspring.com>]

I have just returned home to this wonderful discussion and was hoping  
that you could further explicate your premise as it strikes me as a  
crucial argument:

A cage, for an animal, is a drastic loss of space and an induction  
into a pathological
spatial aphasia.  For humans, "cages"--architectural cages for
example--are a gain in the meaning and reality of space.  But both cages
are space-boxes in the sense that they are constructed by  
representational
techniques (classical perspective or digital scripting ) that makes
"gaming", among other things, inevitable.  The caged animal and
"architectural human" in their boxes share a complex relationship to  
what
Derrida called "ethical calculability."


Thanks so much -

Chris



On Sep 15, 2007, at 7:51 AM, cingraha@pratt.edu wrote:

> A cage, for an
> animal, is a drastic loss of space and an induction into a  
> pathological
> spatial aphasia.  For humans, "cages"--architectural cages for
> example--are a gain in the meaning and reality of space.  But both  
> cages
> are space-boxes in the sense that they are constructed by  
> representational
> techniques (classical perspective or digital scripting ) that makes
> "gaming", among other things, inevitable.  The caged animal and
> "architectural human" in their boxes share a complex relationship  
> to what
> Derrida called "ethical calculability."

Christiane Robbins


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