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ble mind a block later as i was passing beneath a stand of trees the head of a baby bird fell to my feet i was struck by the temporal proximity of these two events such potential for metaphor home remedies november 6 2010 6 31 pm posted in recipes tagged burton salt and james leave a comment alone and filled with care i go measuring the most deserted fields with steps delaying and slow petrarch alison s salt cure for the envy of placid beasts when the pure presence of anxiety in the form of an agile grimace nips at your heels like a mangy dog and silence is inhabited by the monstrous swarm that surrounds and deafens take an irregular cloth and rub your flesh until it is warm and disturbed use salt that has been dried in the oven with saltpeter and spices to quell any secret rapture of hideous nakedness and the monstrous shapes of delirious animals that betray dark rage lay on a wooden table splayed like a carcass and allow one s ego to be beaten and pressed by the knowledge that any suffering from the shadow of loss is merely the narcissistic wound of abandonment biting cares perturbations and passions sorrows and foaming should let off with the application of the salt mixture stoke the fire and remain in a hot room for 3 days this should suture the conceptual hole and lessen the horror vacuus turn over once a day at the end of 3 days transfer one s self to a cold cellar and apply a little extra salt the cellar should be disinfected else the many headed beast will rear once again and discontents discords and treacheries will return remained sealed in the cold room until any chafing cursing and pathetical adjuncts dissipate if one s eyes are still grisly to behold skin ashen to unfold and the horrible fear of existence persists upon ascend repeat the treatment and these few words september 26 2010 3 11 pm posted in literary rambles tagged identity language and affect leave a comment we talk because we are mortal words are not signs they are years saying what they say the words we are saying say time they name us we are time s names to talk is human octavio paz so much has been written on the subject of identity in recent years that i hesitate to broach the topic but the question of what constitutes selfhood is one that has occupied my thoughts over the years a great deal it has of course provided fodder for writers and academics alike for time immemorial yet it remains an open question an enigma that can never be resolved most recently thought has seized on the concept of identity as being something fluid something that is modified renovated and rescripted with the accumulation of new experiences in the material world while i do not refute this understanding it has long been my belief that identity is essentially unstable i have some hesitation in accepting the implied premise that identity is merely a potage of experience desire memory and imagination the question that arises is one that addresses what we might call the essence of a self can we claim that there is some fundamental nature that functions to give a framework to a selfhood if so how do we define it how do we even recognize it i want to begin this discussion by suggesting that identity is largely formulated through language with the means and ends being a desire to compose a narrative that has a plot as such the construction of identity can be understood as a literary event we perceive and understand the world and ourselves by way of a narrative that involves the organization of experience into a temporal succession we seek cause and effect beginnings and conclusions motives and operations as ways of moulding the raw stuff of life into something comprehensible desire as such is integral to the process of sense making it is what drives us forward and onward and functions as the motor of actions this assertion is complicated by the psychoanalytical understanding that desire is inherently unsatisfiable and linked to memories that are inaccessible to the consciousness thus our desire for significance and narrative is one that arises from the unconscious and phantasmic scenarios of satisfaction as intriguing as this proposal is it offers little in the way of helping us identify some core of a selfhood are we to understand identity as something that arises from the reproduction of infantile need and quest for gratification i would hope not such a proposition seems to reduce the complexity of the human to early childhood experiences with little regard for the roles of imagination emotion individuality potentiality and affect in the construction of identity it disregards the accumulation and impurity of experience we are in continual contact and interaction with the material world shaping and being shaped by language tools and the geography in which we live thus to assert the concrete cornerstone of character is largely borne of infantile experience neglects the potentiality the possibilities of one s own existence it seems to crystallize identity and designate it as something that lies within but always out of the reach of consciousness it cements character while positioning it outside of one s control this is an unsatisfactory model of character for a number of reasons primarily as mentioned earlier it negates the possibility of experience having an indelible effect on one s selfhood surely traumatic events leave some residue upon one s character that cannot be reduced to a psychoanalytical model that focuses on infancy what i am suggesting is that affect that is the experience and repetition of sensation and action surpasses and undermines what we often regard as identity while supporting energizing and containing it paradoxical to be sure but it is in our interactions our desire for sense making our search for meaning and individuality that the notion of identity is challenged and defined this seems to lead us back to my initial discomfiture with selfhood defined as a hodgepodge of beliefs experience and drive for wish fulfillment yet i want to suggest that this discussion has not been entirely a fool s errand that some understandings have arisen the first is that identity is under constant construction it is not something cemented in early life experiences with little interaction or malleability nor is it the sum total of encounters with the world identity seems to reside within the vocabulary the syntax in which we use to narrate our movement through the world language facilitates the composition of identity yet it extends beyond any one individual entering what we might call the realm of the non human it relies on the human to exist yet it surpasses the human in its timelessness and endless potentiality what i would like to suggest is that identity is an intersection between language affect and desire that our relationship with words and syntax our movement through the material world and our desire for narrative and sense making are the primary constituents of what we might regard as selfhood thus the framework upon which the essence of selfhood rests is one that is build out of one s familiarity and use of language we are the language we speak just a few scattered thoughts on this sunday afternoon home remedies september 16 2010 9 19 pm posted in recipes tagged salt and foucault unreason leave a comment it is singular to see that man s greatest desire which is his personal liberty has its disadvantages as well spurzheim alison s salt cure for maladie anglais begin treatment by scraping preferably with a mussel shell the surfaces of one s body this will dispose the running sores caused by the promiscuity of the soul more readily toward treatment apply french salt liberally to abate fermentation of flesh and decomposition of morals one must avoid confined spaces particularly those situated underground and seek the sun it is recommended that one lie on a wooden form for at least 4 hours after initial salting this will aid in the neutralization of tainted exhalations and any putrid fevers the application of dried calve skin and river stones on the chest and torso will relieve the effects of irresolute attention and a vacillating soul wash well with fresh water to cleanse one of the longing to suffer and dissolve the friable alkaline particles that penetrate body and heart the mind disturbed by the search for truth will should find some comfort in the binding of the body if disputes of unreason and passions of obstinacy continue the best course of action is to be stamped on by a youth of 15 years or thereabout for an extended period of time it is well known that shame fetters turpitude avoid shadowy places and darkened mirrors for 40 days i don t know why she swallowed a fly september 9 2010 8 53 pm posted in random thoughts and queries tagged empathy and thrift intellegence leave a comment this octave of faulty decorum hides the extraordinary lizard till night fall moore the question put to me on a daily basis by my 10 year old child generally revolves around the query what is your favourite animal a variation if not a departure from the general theme is if you were an animal what would you be and most recently which animal do you feel most sorry for i have learned over time that there are more and less appropriate answers to these questions for instance it is considered absolutely unacceptable to wish to be a housefly unless one is willing to face a mob of irate 8 10 year olds and their little webs of reasoning and feelings nor is it adequate to name paramecium or amoebas as one s favourite animal there seems to be a distinct bias toward multi celled organisms with fur and large doleful eyes last weekend i was faced with two indignant children accusing me of cold heartedness when i said i do not feel sorry for any animal but what about the polar bears protested my daughter or the dolphins or the cats that get run over by cars i suppose i should have humoured her and said pandas or gorillas but the question of empathy and intelligence with has been on my mind a great deal lately i could not offer her a simple thoughtless answer the idea that we have the ability to know an animal know enough of its consciousness to conceive how it might feel in any given situation is questionable this is not to mean that i condone cruelty to animals but rather i deliberate on our capacity to do what empathy seems to demand that of stepping into another s shoes so to speak for an animal other than the salient fact that animals don t wear shoes there is the issue of knowing a reality or world that exists in a different time and space than ours to disengage from the reality in which one lives and enter into some more natural world where living is simpler is not only a fool s errand it fails recognize the complexity the diversity and fullness of animal life it hovers on a type of anthropocentrism or the very least a sort of petishism in which we look at animals as reflections of our ideal selves it seems to me to deny the level of calculation and deliberation necessary to sustain life for any entity we cannot live or think like lions because we do not live with the same relation to space and time as they do we may observe them interact with them admire them but their relation with the world is radically different they do not move through the world in same way we do to claim to think like an animal or even authentically empathize with one is to neglect not only the complexity of their world but to practice a sort of self deception our thoughts and the way in which we direct moderate or express emotion are dependent on language and culture the way in which we interact with the world has evolved as a response to the world in which we live in and as social beings we have developed a high levels of emotional complexity and means of communication these allow us to infer to create choices alternatives to merely acting on the drive for self preservation this is not to claim animals do not have the intelligence to make choices but rather we are not as occupied with the things at hand such as the hunt for sustenance or the hunter s rifle we examine reflect and conjecture thrift offers an intriguing theory that suggests that there is no real distinction between various forms of matter that everything biology geology even things have a sort of intelligence he argues that all things have an awareness of the world that is the result of a continual interaction with it a tool will be as shaped by the hands that use it as the hands will be moulded by the instrument everything responds to the material world in which it is situated we are as subject to the geography we live in the tools we use and the living entities we encounter as they are to us everything is so interwoven so inextricably connected that it is impossible to separate intelligences intelligence is not the property of one entity human or otherwise but rather something that arises out of the relationship between an entity and its environment this takes place in a world that is in a constant state of flux he argues that there are so many new levels of intelligence and perceptual capacities that come with the technological advances of recent history that we can no longer distinguish between what what is human animal or technology everything is becoming so much more intertwined and related that new planes of intelligence more complex entities and unexpected connections are emerging living among a myriad of intelligences and potential interactions that unite living things creates a kind of boosted bare life in a series of becoming worlds identity and a grounded existence becomes increasingly mediated and complex we become almost flecks of identity a smudge on one plane of the world like that of a swatted housefly on a kitchen window all of this offers little in the way of a proper response to a 10 year old who has simply asked for preference in regards to an animal i am not sure how i will answer her tomorrow perhaps with the spider that just swallowed a fly i feel therefore i am september 2 2010 9 26 pm posted in literary rambles tagged affect neglect and thrift leave a comment poetry is the music of the soul and above all of great and feeling souls voltaire i have long been interested in the role of affect in the literary aesthetic experience that is the way in which an emotional experience allows for meaning to rise from the relations between a reader and a text i believe that affect is deeply embedded in language and literary form yet because of its slippery nature its refusal to be pinned down and assigned one stable definition it is largely ignored by the humanities this oversight is also the result of the western world s privileging cognition over emotion and i think the dichotomy of cognition and emotion is a western construct and must be interrogated western academic writing has long held the position of being disinterested or sceptical thus muting affect but i cannot help but to question this stance and wonder about the imp...