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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
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difference between an eruv and a ghetto
1. What does the three highlighted "it"s are referring to? "the artwork" or "the eruv"?
2. What does the red sentence mean? I can not understand its argument.
3. What is the difference between an eruv and a ghetto?
Mark Wallinger proposes a slightly enlarged circumscription in his work Zone. this ‘installation in the sky’ is characterised, above all, (as it were) by its imperceptibility in practice. Supposedly, a cord passes several metres over our heads, building to building, but also, for instance, at some height over Lake Aa. Despite assiduously peering at the heavens here and at several other points along the marked circle? I can only testify to its invisibility. As such, a twofold status is proposed for Zone: first, as an imaginary, metaphysical boundary, there to be observed ‘in theory’ by the initiated spectator, but also potentially transgressed; and, second, as the demarcation of a border whose purpose is to facilitate rather than prohibit. In fact, one of Wallinger’s points of reference for Zone was the Talmudic eruv, which it is recommended ‘should be an integral part of the city and invisible to the untrained eye’. In concrete terms it‘refers to a fence – either real or symbolic – that surrounds a Jewish neighbourhood. Within it certain prohibitions on public behaviour, imposed by the Sabbath, are cleverly circumvented by a ‘creative interpretation’, as the artist goes on to explain: ‘This loophole allows for a designated public space to become domesticated by cord stretched as “lintels” above “doorways” into a communal home’. Wallinger contrasts the ‘creative permissiveness’ of the eruv with the ‘coercive communality’ of the ghetto, which is designed, consciously or unconsciously, precisely to contain freedom of movement.
2. What does the red sentence mean? I can not understand its argument.
3. What is the difference between an eruv and a ghetto?
Mark Wallinger proposes a slightly enlarged circumscription in his work Zone. this ‘installation in the sky’ is characterised, above all, (as it were) by its imperceptibility in practice. Supposedly, a cord passes several metres over our heads, building to building, but also, for instance, at some height over Lake Aa. Despite assiduously peering at the heavens here and at several other points along the marked circle? I can only testify to its invisibility. As such, a twofold status is proposed for Zone: first, as an imaginary, metaphysical boundary, there to be observed ‘in theory’ by the initiated spectator, but also potentially transgressed; and, second, as the demarcation of a border whose purpose is to facilitate rather than prohibit. In fact, one of Wallinger’s points of reference for Zone was the Talmudic eruv, which it is recommended ‘should be an integral part of the city and invisible to the untrained eye’. In concrete terms it‘refers to a fence – either real or symbolic – that surrounds a Jewish neighbourhood. Within it certain prohibitions on public behaviour, imposed by the Sabbath, are cleverly circumvented by a ‘creative interpretation’, as the artist goes on to explain: ‘This loophole allows for a designated public space to become domesticated by cord stretched as “lintels” above “doorways” into a communal home’. Wallinger contrasts the ‘creative permissiveness’ of the eruv with the ‘coercive communality’ of the ghetto, which is designed, consciously or unconsciously, precisely to contain freedom of movement.
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1. The first is a dummy "it". The next two refer to the eruv.
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- The first is a dummy "it".
- The next two refer to the eruv.
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- The Jewish religion imposes certain restrictions on what can be done in public on the Sabbath.
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1. The first is a dummy "it". The next two refer to the eruv.
2. The Jewish religion imposes certain restrictions on what can be done in public on the Sabbath. These restrictions are circumvented by a "creative interpretation" or "loophole". This loophole involves turning the public space into a "communal home" by symbolically enclosing it inside a cordon.
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2. The Jewish religion imposes certain restrictions on what can be done in public on the Sabbath. These restrictions are circumvented by a "creative interpretation" or "loophole". This loophole involves turning the public space into a "communal home" by symbolically enclosing it inside a cordon.
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Thank you @GPY . I still do not know to which property of a ghetto "coercive communality" refers. Do you have any idea? Does it mean that ghettos are certain neighborhoods without borders so they are made so that their inhabitants can easily contact with other people outside the ghetto?
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red appleThank you @GPY . I still do not know to which property of a ghetto "coercive communality" refers. Do you have any idea? Does it mean that ghettos are certain neighborhoods without borders so they are made so that their inhabitants can easily contact with other people outside the ghetto?No, it doesn't mean that. "coercive" implies that the "communality
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@GPY Thank you. I got it. Thus, does "to contain freedom of movement" mean "to control and prevent freedom of movement"?
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red apple@GPY Thank you. I got it. Thus, does "to contain freedom of movement" mean "to control and prevent freedom of movement"?Yes.
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