*Bestiality*
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*-symbiosis - boundary of our bodies/other species*
*“The number of microbes that colonize our bodies exceeds the number ofcells in our bodies by up to a hundred fold.”(p 27) *
*“Let us liberate ourselves from the notion that our body is constituted bythe form that makes it an object of observation and manipulation for anoutside observer.” (p 28)*
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*- goal oriented movement, teleological movement*
*-return to this with grosz, deleuzing notions of becoming*
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define goal (not-goal oriented page 28)
plane of intensity/virtual
*”most movements are not goal oriented”*
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*“How little of the movements of the bodies of octopods frolicking over thereef, of guppies fluttering in the slow currents of the Amazon, of cockatoosflaunting their acrobatics in the vines of New Guinea, of terns of thespecies Sterna paradisaea scrolling up all the latitudes of the planet fromAntartica to the Arctics, of humans is telelogical! How little of thesemovements is programmed by an advance representation of a goal, a result tobe acquired or produce a final state! Most movements do not get theirmeaning from an outside referent envisioned from the start and do not gettheir direction from an end-point, a goal or a result. Without theme, climaxor denouement, they extend from the middle, they are durations.” (p 30)*
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*-animal behavior as eroticism - domestication?*
page 36
*”If an infant brought up in a highrise apartment, where all the paths hewalks outside are paved and even dogs and cats are forbidden, still acquiresfeelings other than those which purring, growling, or roaring machinestransmit to him, it is because he has contact with humans who have madecontact with the living forces of nature.”*
domestication
hypothetical world where there are no animals - what are purely humanmovements
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*-does it all have to point to erotic, learning from animals for otherpurposes*
*Without theme, climax, or denoument, they extend from the middle, they aredurations.*
pg. 31 - *”The movements and intensities of our bodies take up the movementsand intensities of our bodies take up the movements and intensities oftoucans and wolves, jellyfish and whales. Psychoanalysis censures asinfantile every intercourse with the other animals, which it so obsessivelyinterprets as representatives of the father and mother figures of itsOedipal triangle.”*
grizzly man
feral children - wild child
*”Today in our Internet world where everything is reduced to digitally codedmessages, images, and simulacra instantaneously transmitted from one humanto another, it is in our passions for the other animals that we learn allthe rites and sorceries, the torrid and teasing presence, and theceremonious delays, of eroticism.”*
-embodiment of animals or symbols (power?)
pelts - tradition of killing/wearing/power
page 39 - *”Humans have from earliest times made themselves eroticallyalluring by grafting upon themselves the splendors of the other animals, thefilmy plumes of ostriches, the secret luster of mother-of-pearl oysters, thespringtime gleam of fox fur.”*
-frame/chaos bodies/boundaries - art as object art as tied to environmentnot separate
-art about the duration/process rather then the final state
-desire to understand process of creation, emphasis on process beingimportant - breaking down boundary of artist/viewer symbiosis - importanceof interpreter?
*Religion of Animals:*
page 56 - *”The noble impulses are nowise contrived to serve human needs andwants, human whinings.”*
define noble
our eyes are drawn to exemplary individuals… saunter on.
“yet we are also drawn to people who are not exemplary”
doing something beyond its practical reason -
page 60 - *”For courage as the word indicates, is the force of theheart(cor, cuer, coeur) and sociological studies show that the same numberof people die bravely and die cowardly among those who think that theirdeath is the gateway to eternal bliss among those who think their death isonly annihilation.”*