File spoon-archives/baudrillard.archive/baudrillard_1998/baudrillard.9808, message 28


From: "The Dock Family" <jmdock-AT-alltel.net>
Subject: Re:real again?(flowers?)
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 23:38:24 -0400


here's the problem:we have never been enlightened that the body is not
seperate from epistemological concerns..it's not our worthless body that
we're nostalgic for,it's our worthless consciousness...yoga does understand
the connection...if only we were flowers but i fear we're only petals,all
together we might achieve beauty.
-----Original Message-----
From: Gavin Toomey <gavin-AT-cfc.co.uk>
To: baudrillard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
<baudrillard-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>; gavin <gavin-AT-cfc.co.uk>
Date: Thursday, August 20, 1998 4:58 AM
Subject: flowers


>The only hard "truth" is the body. To think one should/could survive
>as pure electronics is a reasonable desire when one considers
>biological decay... and the crushing narratives of identity...
>
>The voyeuristic pleasures of existence as invisible wo/man
>are on a plane of pure signification... However, the 'reality' of being
>invisible
>would inevitably destroy the subject...
>
>When the body exists on a level of representation the politics
>of life disintegrate and we become flowers...
>
>--
>
>------------------------------
>Gavin Toomey (film fx designer)
>Computer Film Company, London.
>gavin-AT-cfc.co.uk
>http://www.cfc.co.uk/gavin
>------------------------------
>
>


   

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