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Catttt Posted 6 years ago
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Uncoupling the rigidities of binary thinking

1. Does "the process of uncoupling the rigidities of binary thinking" mean "the process of the collapse of the intensity and stiffness of polar thinking (defining things in the form of polarities like good/bad)"?


2. Does "we re-find that intermediate space where form and its diffusion tussle without resolution" mean "we again find the intermediate space where form and its diffusion are fighting with each other without stop"?


3. Does "Attending to the metaphorics rather than the literalism of the death drive allows us to consider Hesse’s work as a seeking to erase difference that, in coming up against particular material conditions and constraints, produces even more difference" mean "when we define the death drive in a metaphoric manner, it allows us to consider Hesse’s artworks as trying to erase differences, while, her artworks in specific material conditions and constraints, produce even more differences"?


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Granted Wagner does situate this unconscious content as being screened or propped behind strictly artistic concerns and that it is the latter which allow the viewer access to the psychic charge of the work rather than knowledge of the artist’s biography. Art is a metaphorical and material working over of and through bodily feelings, so that while the work relates to Hesse’s feelings of being a body in space and time, these feelings are transformed by the formal language available to her, to which she brings an awareness of the intimate qualities of materials, their translucency and opacity. Through this working over of materials, Hesse creates structures that allow the viewer to experience generalised fantasies of loss and absence. In the encounter with objects, which are in the process of uncoupling the rigidities of binary thinking, we re-find that intermediate space where form and its diffusion tussle without resolution. Attending to the metaphorics rather than the literalism of the death drive allows us to consider Hesse’s work as a seeking to erase difference that, in coming up against particular material conditions and constraints, produces even more difference, exceeding the initiating binaries of surface/depth,
order/chaos, male/female.

  

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catttt 1. Does "the process of uncoupling the rigidities of binary thinking" mean "the process of the collapse of the intensity and stiffness of polar thinking (defining things in the form of polarities like good/bad)"? Something like that.

  • catttt 1.
  • Does "the process of uncoupling the rigidities of binary thinking" mean "the process of the collapse of the intensity and stiffness of polar thinking (defining things in the form of polarities like good/bad)"?
  • Something like that.
  • catttt 2.
  • Does "we re-find that intermediate space where form and its diffusion tussle without resolution" mean "we again find the intermediate space where form and its diffusion are fighting with each other without stop"?
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catttt1. Does "the process of uncoupling the rigidities of binary thinking" mean "the process of the collapse of the intensity and stiffness of polar thinking (defining things in the form of polarities like good/bad)"?

Something like that.

catttt2. Does "we re-find that intermediate space where form and its diffusion tussle witho

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