[-empyre-] Queer *Is* Violent: Response to Part of Judith's Position/Statement

[naxsmash]

Judith Rodenbeck writes:

How could one make that image, when her eyes literally
go blank and the blood rivers out of her nose, swerve? I'd think a
3-Songs-of-Lenin treatment rather than Nam June wallpaper. Or Kali Ma.


the swerve as the swerve is happening physically and at the level of  
the image: the video is already suggestible as transport around a  
goddess dying trance-substantial.


"For example, Rudolph Otto [9] in The Idea of the Holy produced a  
battery of Latin terms that suggest aesthetic dimensions in religion.  
He wrote of human confrontation with the "numinous," which is "wholly  
other" or outside normal experience and which is indescribable,  
terrifying, fascinating, characterized by dread and awe. The  
experience is of a mysterium tremendum et fascinosum, an "awe-filled  
and fascinating mystery."

http://www.proz.com/kudoz/latin_to_english/religion/905612-numen_tremendum.html

not any more outside 'normal' experience, not anymore with you tube.


So Bacon goes to the edge of this.  Pope screaming: at what .  At the  
fascinosum... in front of him.

that quality then characterizes the space in front of the painting.  
when you stand in front of it, buffetted, slapped.




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