SCLG2623 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Abjection, Existential Crisis, Performance Art
2 Nov 2018
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Content: violence and the abject - existential crisis self, body, abject - holding on the abject and culture - defending against https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=mzi12whwvag the painless. Pain: the generalised condition of being alive, a state of sensation, a sensual monitoring of the body, a care or awareness of its health and its status, an attention to what are sometimes known as raw feels" (elkins 23) Violence deliberate infliction of bodily harm attacks sentient body: perpetrator harms victim experience, self as object of violence, event, self as witness to violence. Excessive violent acts against bodies judicial perspective: instrumental violenceself-defence = calibrated violence response to prevent an impending injury use of force required to repel the attack. non-deadly/deadly to match level of attack. Atrocity excess cruel and violent act out of proportion. Not just to kill but to purge, cleanse, desecerate, dehumanise. It lies there, quite close, but it cannot be assimilated (kristeva 1982: 1)
