[-empyre-] from terror to pharmakon forward from Kristen Alvanson

[Christina McPhee]

Precisely it is in the interest of considering 'site' as neither  
subjective nor transcendent,  but something more, en plus-- something  
that is powerful outside ourselves yet is intimately connected to our  
perception.

The site is 'telemimetic'  -- it speaks, but in a language we may not  
totally understand or can only understand partially, hence we are  
aphasic in re site, and must try to figure out various lancements,  
conditions,
subterfuges, ploys to engage it.   we cook up recipes, make  
talismans,  seek to apply antidotes or paint with salves.

thus not post modernity fort/da but from within  an engaged fluid  
mutual transformation of self/site/scape.  slipstreaming .  http://www.christinamcphee.net/texts/slipsonictopos.htm

christina


> Christina,
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>
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> What I've been thinking about in terms of pharmakon and "the proximity
> of poison to cure.." is the question of site of operation. Is it
> possible for pharmakon to be both a poison and a cure at the same time
> and according to one site of operation?  If this is not possible, then
> pharmakon must be bound to the experience of the Subject in which case
> the transcendental system transforms it to the problem of 'either … or
> …' which in turn reinscribes both the dichotomy of the concept and the
> central privilege of the subject. If this is the case, then we must
> question if pharmakon is a conceptual extension of postmodernist
> relativism or not. I'm curious to know your thoughts or anyone else's
> on this.
>
> Best,
> Kristen
>
>>>> The 'pharmakon' is conceptually and practically useful-- because it
> expresses that strange ambivalence at the core of many political and
> phenomenological conditions-- from space and memory to imagined
> futures—    the proximity of poison to cure.."
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> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Christina McPhee <christina at christinamcphee.net
>> wrote:
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Christina McPhee <christina at christinamcphee.net>
> Date: December 8, 2008 10:00:37 AM PST
> To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] from terror to pharmakon
> Reply-To: soft_skinned_space <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au>
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>
>
> Hello Tim and -empyreans-  ,
>
>
> The 'pharmakon' is conceptually and practically useful-- because it
> expresses that strange ambivalence at the core of many political and
> phenomenological conditions-- from space and memory to imagined
> futures--
>
> the proximity of poison to cure..
>
>
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Christina McPhee
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