Aporetica

Dedication - Cuando a la casa del lenguaje se le vuela el tejado y las palabras no guarecen, yo hablo When the house of language has its roof blown off and words do not shelter, I speak - fellow Latin American writer and contemporary, Alejandra Pizarnik, "Fragmentos para dominar el silencio” (Fragments to overcome silence)   ---   “ALL THE WORLD BEGAN WITH A YES. ONE MOLECULE SAID YES TO ANOTHER MOLECULE and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort” - From The Hour Of The Star (1977)   ---   When I read Clarice, I’m reminded of Montaigne - "I continually observe myself, I take stock of myself, I taste myself … I roll about in myself” Maurice Merleau-Ponty described Montaigne as someone who put "a consciousness astonished

  The Fall of Man Into Machine – Response to Giger Impressions of Erotomechanics VII (1979) By Swiss artist Hans Rudi Giger (1940-2014) Reading Rainer Maria Rilke -     ' We live in a machine,     and inner things have become the same as the outside,     as if the soul were but an exhaust fume irksomely                    pouring from a loud engine.     Things curl up in themselves ...     like sick girls who have forgotten what love,                                   flowers'   Notes: Human and mechanical forms Biomechanoid – human is entangled in symbiotic relationship with mechanical world Technology is no longer a tool – it’s become physiologically integrated – man is in servitude Man is intimately involved with his creation Woman figure is human, discernible – they are in profile – we (viewer) are looking on Man is an object, a device, disembodied Realistic representation Clinical light Highly stylised - Giger’s style in paintings are instan