[-empyre-] body chair language

[John Hopkins]

> Thanks, this is - for me! - useful and welcome; the language questions you
> outline obviously espouse those I deal with in French, though I'm not aware
> of "embodiment" being integrated as a solution - l'incorporation and
> l'incarnation have tricky resonance, as you say. In the mystical vein,
> "transsubstantiation" can perhaps interestingly (and translatably) get
> closer to interim/ limbo zones some of the list's reflection about "virtual
> embodiment" seems to touch on ("intertwinedness in-and-as-the system", as
> per Sue's last posting). I'd love to hear more on your take on ghosts and
> haunting and resonance, Sue, as I'm also grappling with this stuff -

If we are going in that direction, maybe a meditation on "hypostasis", then, 
while speaking of Self and Other at once:

"The Self will never share the same point-of-view as the Other. My eyes cannot 
be collocated with yours. I may exchange places with you, but when all is change 
along the arrow of time, what you experienced there and then, I cannot 
experience there and now. The interstitial chasm exists within constant change 
and flow and it exists as long as life is embodied. Some models of transcendence 
suggest a unification, an omniscient one-ness, after embodiment ends, but here 
and now we all face the challenge of hypostasis, that puzzling duality of 
existing in a transitory and substantial body now and yet connected with an 
apparently detachable spirit before and after."

I always felt like that when doing networked performances over the years...

jh


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