[lit-ideas] Re: poem
- From: Torgeir Fjeld <torgeir_fjeld@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2010 22:00:33 +0000 (GMT)
Thanks for sharing, Michael. Two threads emerge:
1. The Derridean turn:
"Derrida begins with a deconstruction of the name “Francis Ponge,” displacing
Francis Ponge as the proper name of a man with “Francis Ponge” as the thingness
of the name. His is an adequate strategy, because, as Higgins points out, “the
pleasurable awareness of the thing as a thing is a re-awakening to the relation
between it and the word" (http://bit.ly/dnou65)
It reminds (us) that one could call on a carnival dressed as oneself so that
one would not arrive as oneself but as someone else posing as oneself.
Returning to the thing its thingness liberates it from its naturalized relation
to language -- trees are humiliated, but also made aware of their own material
as language: trees are composed of parts that are animated and not animated --
by whom? Language itself?
"The Church has decided", "The Committee has reached a resolution", "The people
has made it clear by the ballott box" -- or even "I, the truth, speaks" (Lacan)
-- it is language that takes over. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTDafjfxu5c)
2. Poet Tor Ulven wrote about breadcrumbs and rocks.
We descend from rocks
And return to them.
A circle, open, like the
pelvis. A scream
strikes the bow separating
morning from evening.
When the sun is low,
one can observe the
remnants
of dead people's smile
in certain rocks.
lATER,
phatic
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