Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 21:55:45 -0400
From: "Wynship W. Hillier" <wynship-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: MB: Orphic Gaze


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Ed,

Thomas Wall takes this approach re the image (of painting?)
in Ch. 1 of _Radical Passivity_ (as for the lovers, see the
two _Communaute_'s, and Duras' _Malady of Death_).  Apropos
the discussion of Foucault, worklessness, and madness, F. in
his preface to Binswager's _Dream & Existence_ on
interpretation of dreams seems relevant here as well:  "Try
as you might, you cannot make images speak."  F.'s work, and
that of the poststructualists in general insofar as it
departs from structualism proper, is said to have been
inspired in part by Blanchot and Bataille.  Perhaps the
influence can be detected here?

Wynship

As an abstract painter, image-lover I found your insight
intriguing. If I compare a painting-in-process to Euridyce's

ambiguous possibilities of response, with Orpheus-as-artist,

your observation that a simultaneity of seeing and having
appears irrefutable. May we attribute this to the fact that
neither painting nor lovers can be "objects" of desire ?
Would not both shun the objective, and remain within the
limits of the workless and powerless?

Ed

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