{"id":314,"date":"2006-10-27T23:58:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-27T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/?p=314"},"modified":"2007-02-01T10:25:43","modified_gmt":"2007-02-01T08:25:43","slug":"for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"for you"},"content":{"rendered":"

this summer back home i began to buy, in beautiful Tropismes<\/em>, the works of Luce Irigaray. i feel how i keep on “thinking with” (this is mar\u00c3\u00ada’s mark) her and decided that i wanted to read and re-read her, in french. this autumn i’m reading quite some Judith Butler, and through her i stumbled upon Adriana Cavarero this evening. next time back home i’ll try to get some of her work, in italian. (oh, italian in need of practice, yesterday by accident, madonna, a spanish word crept into il mio italiano un po’ strano and it did not make giulia happy… pero giulia, sempre quando provo a parlare spagnola, le parole italiane vengono, voil\u00c3\u00a0…) for the moment, Cavarero through Butler, on sociality:<\/p>\n

“In her view, I am not, as it were, an interior subject, closed upon myself, solipsistic, posing questions of myself alone. I exist in an important sense for you and by virtue of you. If I have lost the conditions of address, if I have no “you” to address, then I have lost “myself”. In her view, one can tell an autobiography only to another, and one can reference an “I” only in relation to a “you”: without the “you” my own story becomes impossible.”<\/p>\n

i don’t think it’s a coincidence that i’m interpellated and attracted so much by words like these, and Irigaray’s, and mar\u00c3\u00ada’s (who’s working with Haraway’s words) while being here in America, where i’m confronted so much with the sociality of the “I”. i’ve been tempted for a while now to write a small little intimate poetic personal-political-collective book about this america, as an investigation into individualism (…freedom…independence… the public \/common good… and what i’ve come to call suburbia-subjectivity) and now a genealogy of thought to have conversations with is starting to shape up: irigaray, cavarero,… this involves re-appropriating european feminist thought, as sexual difference thinking isn’t exactely the most popular way of thinking nowadays, between equal opportunities and all things queer. and i like the thought of being an unfaithful blasphemous and recalcitrant daughter-thinker of irigaray, with her original basque connection, her forgotten belgian and leuven connection where there never was a place for her, fleeing away in, and then from, a violent psychoanalytical french connection and finding a political community through a communist italian connection.<\/p>\n

what would it mean to start thinking here, in this america, that i exist only by virtue of you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

this summer back home i began to buy, in beautiful Tropismes, the works of Luce Irigaray. i feel how i keep on “thinking with” (this is mar\u00c3\u00ada’s mark) her and decided that i wanted to read and re-read her, in french. this autumn i’m reading quite some Judith Butler, and through her i stumbled upon … Continue reading “for you”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarah.constantvzw.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}