Comments on: Shattered existence http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/shattered-existence?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shattered-existence Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:17:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Elizabeth Antus http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/shattered-existence/comment-page-1#comment-6846 Elizabeth Antus Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:59:39 +0000 http://bdhamilton.com/?p=553#comment-6846 <p>Hey man.</p> <p>I didn't say contestation didn't exist. </p> <p>I affirm and recognize and love Brian and Maurice Blanchot with all my heart. There.</p> Hey man.

I didn’t say contestation didn’t exist.

I affirm and recognize and love Brian and Maurice Blanchot with all my heart. There.

]]> By: Maurice Blanchot http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/shattered-existence/comment-page-1#comment-6844 Maurice Blanchot Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:55:24 +0000 http://bdhamilton.com/?p=553#comment-6844 <p>I write here, not to be recognized but to contest your point. And haven't I already been shattered, my identity constituted apart from me, in violent exteriority, in this remark and in yours? And was not this what I already foretold, or what Brian said in my name--Brian, who was displaced from me, and yet forged me again, as I became once more myself, Blanchot, remaining however in the infinite otherness of the grave? A distance bridgeable by nothing, mediated by everything: identity as non-identity.</p> <p>Moouahahahaa.</p> I write here, not to be recognized but to contest your point. And haven’t I already been shattered, my identity constituted apart from me, in violent exteriority, in this remark and in yours? And was not this what I already foretold, or what Brian said in my name–Brian, who was displaced from me, and yet forged me again, as I became once more myself, Blanchot, remaining however in the infinite otherness of the grave? A distance bridgeable by nothing, mediated by everything: identity as non-identity.

Moouahahahaa.

]]> By: Elizabeth Antus http://www.bdhamilton.com/articles/shattered-existence/comment-page-1#comment-6839 Elizabeth Antus Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:39:56 +0000 http://bdhamilton.com/?p=553#comment-6839 <p>Do you think that contestation, rather than recognition, is what beings, or, more specifically, humans, want, in our being-toward-otherness? I agree that there is a grasping-toward-otherness and toward exteriority embedded within existence, at least within human existence, but I'm wondering if the most inclusive way to articulate this movement is through the desire for contestation RATHER than for recognition. Can these two things be opposed in such a stark way? I understand that humans need opposition to another to be able to recognize themselves precisely as distinct individuals, but It seems as though we need both descriptions to grasp what's going on within the entire process of identity formation--in other words, it also seems true that humans extend out toward the other for some fundamental sense of affirmation. I'm not calling for an elision of the two modes, but rather, for a dialectical treatment...I think.</p> <p>I haven't read Blanchot but I've heard some feminists don't like him. Who even knows. </p> <p>Hi Brian! I read your blog regularly but finally felt like commenting today!</p> Do you think that contestation, rather than recognition, is what beings, or, more specifically, humans, want, in our being-toward-otherness? I agree that there is a grasping-toward-otherness and toward exteriority embedded within existence, at least within human existence, but I’m wondering if the most inclusive way to articulate this movement is through the desire for contestation RATHER than for recognition. Can these two things be opposed in such a stark way? I understand that humans need opposition to another to be able to recognize themselves precisely as distinct individuals, but It seems as though we need both descriptions to grasp what’s going on within the entire process of identity formation–in other words, it also seems true that humans extend out toward the other for some fundamental sense of affirmation. I’m not calling for an elision of the two modes, but rather, for a dialectical treatment…I think.

I haven’t read Blanchot but I’ve heard some feminists don’t like him. Who even knows.

Hi Brian! I read your blog regularly but finally felt like commenting today!

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