Also from the Massumi Interview…
“No one emotional state can encompass all the depth and breadth of our experiencing of experiencing — all the ways our experience redoubles itself. That vague sense of potential, we call it our ‘freedom’, and defend it fiercely. No body can escape gravity. Laws are part of what we are, they’re intrinsic to our identities. No human can simply escape gender, for example. The cultural ‘laws’ of gender are part of what makes us who we are, they’re part of the process that produced us as individuals.”
A rather cynical view that i sometimes feel ones the feeling of euphoria fades is that, as much as we struggle to admit, we are all under rules regulations and governed by bodies, policies…
And then, there is Aesthetics, as written in “Free Particles” by Terry Eagleton,
Aesthetics is born as a discourse of the body, its all about perception and sensation.
(which kind of reminds me of the question, is the glass half full or half empty)
“Aesthetics is born of the recognition that the world of perception and experience cannot simply be derived from abstract universal laws, but demands its own appropriate discourse and display its own inner, if inferior logic.”
“At the root of social realtion lies the aesthetic, source of all human bonding”
To me, be it humans, ants, wombats, snakes even plants, we can never be free, we belong, to a certain classification, submitting to a higher order/power. Somehow we just have to find a way to stop hurting one another (not to mention the environment!)
Sadly when you have “boy and their toys” you get nuclear weapons, germ warfare, bombs, terrorism…
