The legend, the history is created in the mouth, and therefore survival is in the mouth.
http://africanistes.revues.org/2441
If speaking is still difficult to negotiate, then writing has created a
free space for most women -much freer than speech [...] The book is
bound, circulated, read. It retains its autonomy much more than a woman
is allowed in the oral situation
(Vera, 1999: 3).
‘The beginning grows into something; the end into nothing but what has been.’
Showing posts with label africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label africa. Show all posts
Sunday, 18 October 2015
Sunday, 27 October 2013
lulustein
Lulus Debüt bezieht sich auf eine Legende: Napoleon III. nahm seinen
Sohn Lulu mit 14 Jahren auf den Feldzug mit, auf dass er das
Kriegshandwerk von der Pike auf lerne. Er solle frühzeitig seinem großen
Ahnen folgen, damit, wie der Vater hoffte, aus dem kleinen Napoleon
einmal ein großer werde. In Saarbrücken, in Feindesland, angelangt,
stießen die beiden zum ersten Mal auf Widerstand. Napoleon meinte zu
seinem Sohn Lulu, dass es nun Zeit für die erste Lektion sei, das
Abfeuern einer Kanone. Diese bestand Lulu dann auch sehr gut. Die
Ausbildung konnte dann allerdings nicht weiter gehen, weil danach
zurückgegangen wurde. Daher konnte Lulu die soldatische Ausbildung nicht
abschließen, was dann auch als Grund angenommen werden dürfte, dass er
eines so jähen Todes in Afrika sterben musste
Sunday, 5 February 2012
Hold tight, we're in for nasty weather

I still notice the burned house, mornings, when I walk along the beach. Well, obviously I do not notice the house. What I notice is the remains of the house. One is still prone to think of it as a house, however, even if there is not remarkably much left of it.
markson /wittgenstein's mistress
According to the principle by which it is only in the burning house that the fundamental architectural problem becomes visible for the first time, art at the furthest point of its destiny, makes visible its original project.
agamben / man without content / 115

It is said of an old African man who is dying that he is a burning library - except that [as compared with the old African man] the burning of a library [which is itself a souvenir object] is an accident: in principle, the library lasts. Whereas, in principle, death is inscribed in life itself [this is why the man is old], as its 'normal' or 'natural' term, so to speak.
stiegler / discrete image / echographies/ 148
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