#eric prenowitz

[bones-ivy-breath]

Portraits of Portraits: The Very Day/Light of Roni Horn by Hélène Cixous (tr. Eric Prenowitz)

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Touch conceals all kinds of violence and all kinds of gentleness, as well as all the violent gentle things. In a certain sense all touch is violent. The softest of touches puts a limit on intactness, yours or mine.

[goreprofonde]

“The Fall is ridiculous. But in the Bible one does not laugh. The sense of sin keeps God from laughing.”

- Hélène Cixous translated by Eric Prenowitz, Stigmata: Escaping texts

[hybridsignals]

Scar is comparable to Siegfried’s invisible point of mortality, a non-scar, but a trace reserved for the passage of death, a door requirig a password, scar adds something: a visible or invisible fibrous tissue that really or allegorically replaces a loss of substance which is therefore not lost but added to, augmentation of memory by a small mnesic growth. Unlike scar, stigmata takes away, removes substance, carves out a place for itself.

Stigmata are traces of a sting.

Hélène Cixous, Stigmata: Escaping Texts (tr. Eric Prenowitz)

[goreprofonde]

“More than everything in the world we love the creature we would never have expected. Never thought of loving.”

- Hélène Cixous translated by Eric Prenowitz, Stigmata: Escaping texts

[goreprofonde]

“The temptation to not believe and belief breathe in the same breath.”

- Hélène Cixous translated by Eric Prenowitz, Stigmata: Escaping texts

[goreprofonde]

“God is always already di-eu, di/vided, aimed at by us, hit, split. Lips open in his absence of face. And he smiles on us. The smile of Dieu speaks of the wound that we are to him.”

- Hélène Cixous translated by Eric Prenowitz, Stigmata: Escaping texts

[goreprofonde]

“All that I manage to think today, the awful complexities that make love twisted bloody and criminal up to the belated hour of softness, I learned from him without knowing that I was and would be his disciple while we lived tempestuously together.”

- Hélène Cixous translated by Eric Prenowitz, Stigmata: Escaping texts

[magdor]

The archive has always been a pledge, and like every pledge [gage], a token of the future. To put it more trivially: what is no longer archived in the same way is no longer lived in the same way. Archivable meaning is also and in advance codetermined by the structure that archives. It begins with the printer.

Derrida, Jacques. "Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression." Trans. Eric Prenowitz. Diacritics 25.2 (Summer 1995): 9-63. Print. 18.