[-empyre-] Identity ... Disruptions ; 'it's a delicate game we are playing, after all'.

[naxsmash]

>

I would, also like to send you to Johnny Golding's amazing  
performance=essay ,

Conversion on the Road to Damascus (2): Minority Report on The  
Political (or how to have an adventure after Metaphysics)

http://gre.academia.edu/ProfessorJohnnyGolding/Papers#d98974

this incarnation 'installed' at the Critical Digital Studies Workshop

Johnny:

>
> Conversion on the Road to Damascus 2: Minority Report of the Political
> (or how to have an adventure, after metaphysics)1
> Professor Johnny Golding (text), Dr Stephen Kennedy (music  
> composition)


it starts out, like, this,

> ecce homo (this man; this woman; this hermaphrodite!; this  
> androgynous! this ISH! – and no
> other). ToDAY. today I am part thief, part iron-claw, transformed in  
> the first instance
> as a swift and shadowy runner, skimming the surface of greasy back  
> alleyways with
> goods close to hand! Nothing stops me: not sirens, not wounds, not  
> the filthy dirty air!
> Nothing impedes my rush! But at the slightest sniff of danger I can  
> transform! Oh, I
> can transform into – a blue flower! Or maybe a nasty coral reef! Or  
> perhaps just some
> old rusty tractor, digging and banging and digging some more, same  
> place, same time,
> same rhythm. And I think to myself: isn’t it just grand how the  
> ground gives way
> under my – imagination! Maybe this is what it means to make a  
> gesture towards
> aesthetics in the age of relativity and technological change? I want  
> to say: yes (but not
> exactly).
....

this, 'ecce',  amazing lovely smashing counterpoint finds  some  
elision and even kneeling in an ars erotica/ars scientifica... you  
must read on

http://gre.academia.edu/ProfessorJohnnyGolding/Papers#d98974

as she notes at end, 'it's a delicate game we are playing, after all"

Soon, we 'll be able to hear the music and voice soon from this text,  
when Ctheory uploads the next videos  from last June.

-christina




> I would, also, like to surface a quote by William Haver, which I have
> been think about for about two years: "“What if queer studies were to
> be something other than the hermeneutic recuperation of a history, a
> sociology, an economic, or a philosophy of homosexual subjectivity?
> What if, that is to say, queer research were to be something more
> essentially disturbing than stories we tell ourselves of our
> oppressions in order precisely to confirm, yet once more, our
> abjection, our victimized subjectivity, our wounded identity" (Haver,
> "Queer Research," in _Eight Technologies of Otherness_, Sue Goldin,
> ed., 278.
>
> So just some thoughts ... musings ... gesturings ...
>
> As ever,
> Robert
>
>
>
>
>
> Robert Summers, PhD/ABD
> Lecturer
> Art History and Visual Culture
> Otis College of Art and Design
> e: rsummers at otis.edu
> w: http://ospace.otis.edu/robtsum/Welcome
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