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c'est vraiment un essai remarquable. Mes plus vifs compliments. Je pense de le linker sur mon blog.
(Beaucoup d'heures hier cerchant de comprendre la relation d'Emawayish et Leiris)
Giacomo Conserva, Parma. Italie
http://gconse.blogspot.com/
LA QUETE IMPOSSIBLE? RIMBAUD ET LEIRIS EN ABYSSINIE(4)
L’épisode abyssinien de Leiris aura une amère conclusion : il écrira en effet à propos d’Emawayish : Pourquoi faut-il qu'elle soit venue se présenter devant moi, vers la fin de ce voyage, comme s'il s'agissait uniquement de me rappeler que je suis hanté intérieurement par un fantôme pl...
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Nov 22, 2011
fantasmata: something like this (http://gconse.blogspot.com/2011/05/matteo-pasquinelli-so-called-italian.html ), or perhaps rather like this (http://gconse.blogspot.com/2011/09/jodi-dean-link-drive-as-structure-of.html) or this (http://gconse.blogspot.com/2011/04/aerei-patriot-e-muraglie-di-fuoco.html). Looking for some kind of human magic capable of helping quilt the field of signifiers, resructure it, make it new. Isn't this what HEGEMONY is about?
[A simpler form would be just to say that we -WE- need hope]
Communist desire (trying again, failing again)
It could be that communist gaze goes in the wrong direction, trying to imagine a place from which we see ourselves, a place that judges or authorizes. Under the conditions of the decline of symbolic efficiency, this is missing, lacking, fragmented; rather than covered over in fantasy, misrecogni...
we need images (fantasies, fantasmata) too, fantasmata of our own-
Communist desire (trying again, failing again)
It could be that communist gaze goes in the wrong direction, trying to imagine a place from which we see ourselves, a place that judges or authorizes. Under the conditions of the decline of symbolic efficiency, this is missing, lacking, fragmented; rather than covered over in fantasy, misrecogni...
I just posted this on my blog:
http://gconse.blogspot.com/2011/08/londons-burning-great-clash-song.html
"London's burning- the great Clash song"
reminds me of two lines from Eliot's Four Quartets:
'the only hope, or else despair/
to be saved from fire by fire'
(He wrote this during WW2, of course)
Not a great choice, but a choice to be made.
London Riots
People won't take it forever. At some point they will take it back.
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