[-empyre-] a request

[pedro]

hi ana

i can help you with the translation if you like, send me offlist.

thanks to everybody by the way, really enjoying the list

best

pedro


On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Ana Valdés <agora158 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear -empyrians, I has been working hard this week making translations of
> the wonderful wellwritten and inspirating posts made by my friends Alicia
> Migdal and Sabela de Tezanos, two of the most lucid intellectuals I know and
> extraordinary writers.
> I had already difficulties with Sabelas first texts because I felt my
> English was not good enough to make her great text justice.
> But I did it anyway to facilitate the reading and the discussion of the
> topic for non-Spanish readers.
> Sabelas text from today overwhelmed me, I am sad to say that. I spent two
> hours with it and only succeeded with a mediocre translation, not worth of
> Sabela and not worth of empyre.
> My question is: Eduardo, Ricardo, Teddy, Ethel, anyone more able than me me,
> can you make an effort and help me to finish the translation?
> That's the part I worked with it today:
>
> As Ana says I am very happy an grateful reading all different inputs and
> views crossing paths in this exchange, there is always elements refering to
> each other and allow to deepen or reformulate the topic.
>
> I stay with the gap between the terms resistance and resilience: resistence
> being an answer negating the given conditions, a manifesto of the
> opposition. The resilience convocate to the creative superation of a given
> situation, the emergency of something unexpected that allows the
> strenghtening of the individual, including a qualitative jump upon the
> expected.
>
>
>
> Regarding the tattoo and Johannes questions (and his contributions from
> Zikek, thanks for it), I have written these reflections:
>
>
>
> The excesive and invasive representation of the body in the everyday life in
> our times, the condition of almost medicine sterilization, care, health,
> harmony, the ”overclothing” in publicity and in the events of design and
> fashion of a ”neutrum” body, generally thin and androgynous, more conceived
> as the support of clothing, cosmetic, vulnerable to permanent offers of
> health spas and clinics to lose weight, antiaging treatments, sweeteners,
> inplants, prothesis…
>
> The body, always something to technics to achieve perfection, is refered to
> a mechanic or terrain where the differences (sexual, to be androgyny or to
> be voluptuose) are confused.
> Individually, as part of this spectacle and passive recipient of all those
> messages, you survive being ”outside” your self: the own body is not a
> protagonist (how could it be?), the body is the object of all demands,
> compelled.
>
> The fugacity of the appereance, the vanishing of the forces of the
> spectacular is continous, place itself naturally in front of a recurrent
> voiid which challenge the subjectivity demand new behaviours, survival
> strategies and keeping the hope.
>
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