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More Even Still- earthquake emergency draft response
 

offline olaabaza from Mauritius on 2010-11-21 16:50 [#02398900]
Points: 575 Status: Regular



world emergency working piece

Please read.. feedback greatly appreciated.

Below is a draft for one of three pieces that I am currently
researching and drafting.

More Even Still (Draft 2.3) opening excerpt:

What opportunity - to tremble, all of us, at once. To
tremble because of this tremor. Our own; this action or
event was a quake we made but did not foresee. Lacking
desire, unity or identity, this generous action we split up
into twos or threes with foreshocks and mainshocks and
aftershocks, we give it names with minutes and seconds and
with descriptions, inhabited by our fears and comforts at
having apparently escaped it. This action remains our own an
opportunity to wake up.



 

offline olaabaza from Mauritius on 2010-11-21 17:24 [#02398901]
Points: 575 Status: Regular



Be sure: rich memories remain. Not seen, still there, some
one else. It is always becoming worse for some one or some
thing, elsewhere. Our own sense of mass loss, severe and
urgent, disturbingly contrasts with the obscene lack that
robs others of any such sense of loss. This has been going
on for some time now: my world is in a state of emergency.
The hope is in is the difficulty, the tremor; the fixed
obsession and the paradox, it is in the catastrophe. And
even more still; the hope is the catastrophe of time which,
at every point if there ever were a point, this time waits
patiently for us to capture it and to direct its future
which always awaits us ever unknown. But the future never
arrives and it will always still bring catastrophe. Just as
my experience dies through and through. Think impossible
ideals; phantom (inter)active promises: pursue the
impossible: something (span) good might still come.



 

offline olaabaza from Mauritius on 2010-11-21 17:25 [#02398902]
Points: 575 Status: Regular



... Another reminder, another default: might not the
Universe come to stop?

But this stopping would be neither a future catastrophe nor
stillness nor a lack, for lack and catastrophe is that
non-still non-motion, our present is always late, divided,
different, delayed. This time; a contemplation of the
richness of memory, it remains arriving late and failing to
wait. Through it we can take our world seriously, as we move
the mind broadly, towards attention and action. Know your
place, encircled by loss; remember those other plights you
have always known about, here and there. Our whole world is
in a state of emergency. Spare a thought afar - spare your
thoughts - escape the tremor by moving widely, in all
directions So I am guilty of consitently and systematically
sacrificing, and to what cannot bean acceptable extent, the
lives, health, comforts and rights of others, barely alive
and somewhere not nearby, for the sake of the gratification
of my deceptively immediate desires, my hungers or thirsts,
attractions or distractions, for Seinfeld and for a laugh.
Have I done enough homework? Ever failing and rife with
faults, I feel a definite anxiety, but with my gaze
widening. Be sure, don't sacrifice your livelihoods and
don't stop laughing. But do wake up, with intention, this
time. New Zealand promises. What does it promise? This
cannot be promise but, always, such a promise could only be
a fantastic dream - a fantasy - a phantom promise, a utopia
so dystopic it could not possibly come, but towards which we
must decide to act.
...
Something drove most of us, morning, off the bed wondering
for our lives.

But oh what wonder are the lives of others.


 

offline olaabaza from Mauritius on 2010-11-22 01:53 [#02398925]
Points: 575 Status: Regular



lol although no one seems to be bothered it is there now:

LANZ quake emergency response 'More Even Still' time, jus...


 

offline anirog on 2010-11-22 02:39 [#02398926]
Points: 762 Status: Regular



Is the tremor a birth or a destructive act?

I'm garnering an artistic arrival something akin to the
birth of a new sound.

Then the tremor takes an ominous turn. Did we loose
something when the "sound" arrived?

Did we participate in the tremor and it's aftershocks or are
we bystanders to it?



 

offline olaabaza from Mauritius on 2010-11-22 02:55 [#02398927]
Points: 575 Status: Regular



The tremor was an event. An event is artifactual- like an
artifact.
We assign them names and dates.

They are "infested" with meaning and feeling. But there is a
promise. The promise of time is double at least: it will
eventually get worse, always, things will perish. But good
outcomes might just come fleeting by if we work for them.
"Only barely" we may capture some good times.

But not without a realization that catastrophe will come-
and not just that- but it is happening now in so many
places, it is getting worse right now, and that this is
wrong already by our own apparently shared and applied
morality.


 

offline olaabaza from Mauritius on 2010-11-22 02:57 [#02398928]
Points: 575 Status: Regular | Followup to olaabaza: #02398927



That is, the 'preventable', easily, preventable disasters
that happen all over the world. Catastrophe is always still
to come. This is standard Derrida.


 

offline olaabaza from Mauritius on 2010-11-23 22:17 [#02399104]
Points: 575 Status: Regular



The catastrophe will come!


 

offline obara from Utrecht on 2010-11-27 08:58 [#02399426]
Points: 19368 Status: Lurker



i first read the topic title "earthleakage emergency draft
response"


 


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