File spoon-archives/avant-garde.archive/avant-garde_1997/97-04-26.202, message 41


Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 02:55:58 -0400
From: ostrow-AT-is2.nyu.edu (Ostrow/Kaneda)
Subject: Re: on the flank...


>Ostrow/Kaneda wrote:
>>
>> >Could be model of freedom.
>> >It could be from knowledge or feeling and feeling permeates
>> >it doesn't necessarily needs rationnal knowledge.
>> >
>> >I would be happy with that kind of AV
>> >
>> >=Léopol=
>>
>> Feelings are a cultrual construct, though not necessarily rational nor
>> knowledge they are not a given -- ie natural.
>>
>
>I "fear" this is not so. Higher organisms have accordingly more
>reactions and inspirations that we commonly refer to as feelings.
>Unless, of course, you mean the "archetypal" structures of any herd
>"culture" and some of the more "imaginative" nesting instincts.
>How well these instincts work within their culture might really be the
>issue here.
>

I do believe  or I at least interperted feeling here to refer to the
emotions. In which case I would venture that we  should not confuse
capacity or potential with enactment.  Our feelings are organized
culturally.




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