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From: Ruth Chandler <R.Chandler@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 13:04:48 +0000
Dear Rick,
apologies for delay in responding, thats the closest i want to be to
difference without a concept for a while and your remarks were timely. The
Movements, or residue of the movements which have been happening in the
collaborative creation of the piece ( Shiver Rococo aka Dust) show this
week, i am barely interested in this bit at present , but a public face for
(a) feminism matters. ( by which i mean the ism remains a strategic
necessity) I have yet to reflect on the workings of the last month so a
slightly less brief reply to your comments.
You are right about 'role' but note it was bracketed. A practical precaution
when working within a group of people, rather like putting on a lead apron
when having an x-ray. An even 'thicker' slow mask upon masks, becoming
receptive to others still requires strong filters when one can perceive
precisely what it is one does not want to become and it is in very close
proximity!( Precisely to modulate this problem of passivity of which you
speak and the pathos of distance is the other means but agian a problematic
in the way Nietzsche writes it) , the Alice BWO is like a sieve so a
slightly delicate tension between arresting and flowing. i chose her as an
extremity, an untimely temporal spatial problematic found in some feminist
materialisms. Would, what and how would she echo.. what 'noise' would this
woman make? In some respects, the spirit of ressentiment par excellence but
so are many feminist genealogies. Further, i know of very few philosophical,
literary praxis which do not compress their ressentiments into little throw
away remarks, telling footnotes, material practices. Virginia Woolf, for
instance, who says she will no longer say she is this or that spends a great
deal of time in her diary detailing precisely who she is not. Hence the
desire, to make this animation, a little dancing with the pen within the
relations of force, the 'immediacy' of actual performing bodies.o this now
has to be gone over While this improves the epistemic status of my work not
one whit, i just prefer when attempting to speak about corpereal logic to
be speaking about the affects of actual bodies from the affects of 'mine' ,
a political/ grammatical decision on the borders of what may not be said. I
don't disagree with what you say about historiography -how about replacing
the discipline with temporal/spatial studies! i remain attached to
experiential mythemes and the performative 'honesty of simulcra'
nevertheless.
Best Wishes
Ruth.C