[-empyre-] to brazil with love

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i think so too-- about incarnation-- this is the way 'beyond'  
representation--

On Jun 3, 2008, at 11:52 AM, Eduardo Molinari wrote:

> Dear Lotus5, dear all,
>
> I like your words, full of images!
>
> I can understand our feelings about the "normal" demonstrations,
> meetings, marches, rally, etc.
>
> For me what you wrote about "transformation" (in connection with the
> alterglobalization movement) is for me totaly related with  
> "incarnation".
>
> But for me is very important to be clear in this: transformation  
> could be a "more ephimere" experience, is like a passage, going to  
> incarnation.
>
> Then, in the middle of our experiences, incarnation is the  
> possibility to stay in a kind of "expanded space,time&language" with  
> others. Is a different temporality, both part of the movement.
>
> Then, incarnation is a very intensive tool in our fight. In my  
> thinking,
> is about how to be more.
>
> eduardo
>
>
>
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> --- El lun 2-jun-08, lotu5 <lotu5 at resist.ca> escribió:
>
>> De: lotu5 <lotu5 at resist.ca>
>> Asunto: Re: [-empyre-] to brazil with love
>> Para: poopstarr at yahoo.com, "soft_skinned_space" <empyre at lists.cofa.unsw.edu.au 
>> >
>> Cc: archivocaminante at yahoo.com.ar
>> Fecha: lunes, 2 de junio de 2008, 1:22 am
>>>>>>> From: Eduardo Molinari
>> <archivocaminante at yahoo.com.ar>
>> ...
>>>>>>> what is to "erotize
>> politic" today?
>>>>>>> what are the connections between body
>> and ideologies today?
>>>>>>> what is the political dimension of
>> the body today?
>>>>>>> to erotize politic for me is only
>> possible when incarnation
>>>>>>> happens.
>>>>>>> then you can "feel" the
>> political actions, also the enemy ones.
>>
>>
>> Well, I seem to have provided some answers of my own to the
>> questions
>> below without knowing you were discussing them!
>>
>> As for people being afraid in the states, YES, I think so,
>> but also
>> distracted. I think that most often in my interactions with
>> people they
>> feel disconnected from politics, like they can't make
>> any change
>> politically, so "why waste your time?", and
>> really people are distracted
>> too, and find politics boring. I too find most political
>> marches and
>> rallies and movie screenings boring, I admit!
>>
>> I always find that whenI leave the US though, people in
>> other places
>> seem more engaged with politics, like there is a history
>> and a culture
>> of political engagement, so there's already a built-in
>> assumption that
>> politics matters, while to most people in the US politics
>> is seen as
>> something foreign, until voting time comes around.
>>
>> As a teaching assistant in a university, this is my most
>> common
>> experience, that even queer women of color or muslim women
>> will say
>> straight to my face "I'm not interested in
>> politics. It has nothing to
>> do with me." Although, I teach art classes, so maybe
>> its a commentary on
>> artists, or on college students or on my particular city.
>> Or I've had so
>> many women in my classes say adamantly that they are not a
>> feminist, as
>> if they were afraid to be seen as feminist. But again,
>> maybe a
>> commentary on who is interested in studying art, and
>> hopefully they felt
>> differently after my class!
>>
>> This idea of incarnation and feeling actions is
>> interesting, because
>> I've heard many people I know, friends, describe
>> experiences in the
>> alter-globalization movement as transformative, and they
>> seem to
>> structure their lives around politics after these
>> experiences, but
>> they're often the moments of being in a huge crowd with
>> thousands of
>> chanting people, sharing sweat, or being traumatized by
>> rubber bullets
>> and tear gas, or running together in a black bloc, or being
>> hit in the
>> head with a police baton, these are the moments that I feel
>> people
>> describe as transformative and they are absolutely embodied
>> moments that
>> you "feel"!
>>
>>
>> -- 
>>
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>
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