So this is mostly just some ramblings most based off your notes. Hope it's not too presumptuous to stick them here.
Of course not!
Footnote five is badass, but wouldn't the push back against embodied theory run into conflict whith the desire for less-distanced theory?
Yeah I'm not sure about that either.
Actually it kind of fits. In the frequency domain you'd have a cluster of "becoming women", but it wouldn't tell you anything about the performers. Were they transgressing or normalizing? Motivated by self or others? We'd need the phase domain to know. A perfectly queer image would be white noise? I have clearly taken this analogy far to far, but I think part of my resistance is that vectors are always incomplete descriptions of the world.
Actually I find this really useful in describing what rubbed me the wrong way about this idea, thank you.
Re: wound of self-definition: I wonder how body mod/bdsm re-interpretations of wounds/pain/desire could influence the separation of self and resistance to emeshment (if that's the right word for the opposite). If such things are taken on willingly and consciously... I'm curious now about traditions of conscious self-other separation in place of unconscious and Othering separation. It might lead to true celebration of diversity/queerness?
Somatechnics came out of body modification studies and so I bet I will have more to say about this as the semester goes on :) Without having done all of that reading, I would say yes, although it's not the only way, and what might be more important about it is the way that intense bodily experiences challenge the boundary between self and other. (Certainly that's been my feeling around those kinds of experiences; I enjoy body modifications because they perturb the boundaries of my skin, which is supposedly where I end and the world begins, and I enjoy certain aspects of BDSM because they perturb the boundaries between my and another's will. Your mileage may vary.)
Re: I'm working on the original
Of course not!
Footnote five is badass, but wouldn't the push back against embodied theory run into conflict whith the desire for less-distanced theory?
Yeah I'm not sure about that either.
Actually it kind of fits. In the frequency domain you'd have a cluster of "becoming women", but it wouldn't tell you anything about the performers. Were they transgressing or normalizing? Motivated by self or others? We'd need the phase domain to know. A perfectly queer image would be white noise? I have clearly taken this analogy far to far, but I think part of my resistance is that vectors are always incomplete descriptions of the world.
Actually I find this really useful in describing what rubbed me the wrong way about this idea, thank you.
Re: wound of self-definition: I wonder how body mod/bdsm re-interpretations of wounds/pain/desire could influence the separation of self and resistance to emeshment (if that's the right word for the opposite). If such things are taken on willingly and consciously... I'm curious now about traditions of conscious self-other separation in place of unconscious and Othering separation. It might lead to true celebration of diversity/queerness?
Somatechnics came out of body modification studies and so I bet I will have more to say about this as the semester goes on :) Without having done all of that reading, I would say yes, although it's not the only way, and what might be more important about it is the way that intense bodily experiences challenge the boundary between self and other. (Certainly that's been my feeling around those kinds of experiences; I enjoy body modifications because they perturb the boundaries of my skin, which is supposedly where I end and the world begins, and I enjoy certain aspects of BDSM because they perturb the boundaries between my and another's will. Your mileage may vary.)