In such an ironical blind assault on her life, surreal. It was a chance to remain in a suspended state of gentleness, perhaps within the eternal spectrum of cognition, conspiracy, for who sees this, who hears "gentleness? when it occurs, why is negativity so important?
The reigning symbolic order will extol what is gentleness,although we have no "hymns"no immune spheres of the womb to its substances in the current viral crisis of the globe.
You can now purchase "gentleness" on the street corners of the globe.
We are delivered from evil, because evil remains the authority of how things work, all around us; the meek did not inherit the earth, instead the meek are now mortgaged to it the debt of eternity..... an integral part of the system, for how many dead are required before the neo-liberal order acts, spends itself....? if you read Machiavelli.
Have we lost our capacity for compassion, real empathy, for today, scam and fakery markets itself, competes with what Alain Badiou refers to as Truth.
"Gentleness" is never emblazoned on a sleeve, Dufourmantelle tells us. Her work here is in written fragments,shards and splinters of time,musical miniatures of reason, and an ultimate assemblage of destiny of the spirit.It is a lattice on the experiences of power"puissance". Sold to us a stimulus check in pandemic, one payment for one life, one payment, for one time, a year or more.
She reads, Hegel, and we find his romantic "negativity" yet the plasticity resides someplace within the crevices of his work, I suppose to be operative within her work.
The impending danger is what is subtracted away from the human condition, what is hidden, shrouded-shredded mysteries, the opaque all the time, and will always remain hidden from the sufferings, the degradations within the favelas of the globe: in Mumbai,in Cape Town, in Mexico City, Nairobi and Karachi.
Dufourmantelle died while saving two children from drowning, on July 21, 2017, Pampelonne Beach, Ramatuelle, near St. Tropez. The otherness of self if given, slaughtered, the knife of Abraham was not held back this time by the Angel, not here. It was incomplete an event we will always remember, for did she complete her life?, or was there work to do.
Gentleness, she makes a veritable treatise of the the subject, interpolating the poetic, the literary narrative at times, and one can't help finding it within the corridors of art, as filmmaker Andrei Tarkovski his " durational-drones", the Un-Edited" shot, the unending seemingly frames,as the opening of his "The Sacrifice" or the light,(lumiere) within the geometric precisions in Mondrian, the "gentleness" of colour and formno atonality here, or the music, the "diamond-cuttings" of atonal composer Anton Webern, his "Six Pieces for Large Orchestra", the one that begins, one movement with a large bass drum roll, barely audible as it begins.
Beckett's generic word concoctions, his enigmatic base also falls within some realm of Dufourmantelle's "gentle regime"s of thought, of reflection. Although in Beckett there is a largesse of cognitive weight in the suggestions, the tropes, the phrases and moments of his crafted pellucid words as in "Endgame", situated in one place a stasis.
The work here is much more than this, in that it engages each and every one of us, to act, to decide, to make judgements when we engage a gentleness away from the large metaphysical systems all who have shunned yet embraced wholehearted as time progresses, or as time stops.
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