<underfire> on compassion

[sdv at krokodile.co.uk]

Hummm,  surely it is only a requirement for the imperialists to be 
'compassionate'  usually with weapons whilst the colonized are supposed 
to be compassionate victims.... Whilst IB reaches for Nietzsche 
personally I'm  thinking more of Sartre's colonialism and 
neocolonialism... Shouldn't we be thinking along the lines, paraphrase 
Satre,  "...Neo-imperialists think that there are good imperialists and 
some very wicked ones, and that it is the fault of the latter that the 
situation has deterioriated..." 


sdv

Retort wrote:

> "...those...who might find this language too dense or 
> idiosyncratic..." Whoever might that be?
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> Actually, overhearing all this compassion-talk makes me want to reach 
> for my Nietzsche. Doesn't it worry any of you that compassion is 
> Bush's favorite emotion? It's almost as creepy as "tolerance".
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> IB
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> On Nov 11, 2006, at 3:50 PM, bracha L. Ettinger wrote:
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> Kate, Sarah, Ryan, Wolfgang, Mary, Allan, Jordan, dear friends,
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> The originary event of peace is compassion. 
> Peace is a fragile encounter-eventing, an ever re-co-created and 
> co-re-created fragile and fragilizing encounter-event, which I can 
> articulate only in terms of what I have named the matrixial 
> borderspace, a paradigm engendered from, with and within particular 
> epistemological parameters that I have developed and elaborated during 
> some 21 years of constant theoretical writing intertwined with-in 
> psychoanalytic practice and artistic practice. It wouldn't be possible 
> to present briefly how compassion and responsibility meet in the 
> matrixial sphere, but I will try to open at least an entry, for those 
> who would want to go on and do some reading elsewhere. Through some 
> kinds of aesthetical working-through (in art for example) and ethical 
> working-through (in psychoanalytical healing for example), compassion 
> gives birth to responsibility while responsibility gives birth to 
> compassion to the extent that they are not thinkable apart. Though we 
> can think and talk on compassion and on responsibility, their 
> combination is not a thought but a practiced affective encounter-event 
> that becomes a point of view.
> The following is extracted from my recent essay called " 
> Com-passionate Co-response-ability, Initiation in Jointness and the 
> link x of Matrixial Virtuality" [in Gorge(l) (ed. S. Van Loo), The 
> Royal Museum of Antwerp]. I hope that those who are not familiar with 
> my writing, who might find this language too dense or idiosyncratic, 
> would simply read enter this post with their poetic antenne, since 
> during so many years of theorizing I had to find or invent words that 
> fit the parameters of what I named the matrixial encounter-event, and 
> what I can bring here is just a hint concerning a whole field, in 
> which the definition of some familiar words change. ( You are invited 
> to read my book The Matrixial Borderspace, and perhaps the essay 
> "Matrixial Trans-subjectivity" [TCS, 23(2-3)], to have a glimpse at 
> this paradigm).
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> "The pole of compassion resonates with the miracle of non-life coming 
> into life in jointness, with the ethical value of wit(h)nessing and 
> the virtual strings of matrixial com-passion. "
> "Fascinance, compassion, awe and self-relinquishment participate in 
> the originary matrixial knowing of/with-in the m/Other and of/with-in 
> the Cosmos. Early empathy that arises in extreme psychic-mental 
> fragility and vulnerability leans on the matrixial tissue of 
> com-passionate co-response-ability. Response-ability, vulnerability, 
> fascinance, awe, compassion and self-relinquishment are forever bound 
> within matrixial nets composed of psychic-mental strings and threads 
> and working-through in metramorphosis.      
> In a matrixial sphere, the bending of the aesthetical toward the 
> ethical and of the ethical toward the aesthetical is awakened by 
> artworking and healing that resonate the originary aesthetical 
> com-passion, co-response-ability and wit(h)nessing in and by which 
> pre-subjective primary compassion is already manifested. The 
> pre-subject's compassion and fascinance informs its own emergence 
> with-in a co-birthing (co-naissance) of trans-subjective 
> entities—composed of I(s) and non-I(s)—by way of affective and 
> trans-sensed knowledge. Trans-subjective co-response-ability, 
> inaugurated by and in the primordial matrixial encounter-event—where 
> pre-maternal hospitality, empathy and responsibility encounters 
> prenatal pre-mature response-ability, compassion and fascinance—and 
> inaugurated at the same time also by and in interconnectedness in 
> self-relinquishment and wit(h)nessing in awe, is the primary 
> psycho-aesthetical and psycho-ethical basis upon which creativity and 
> ethical potentiality can evolve all throughout life with-in new 
> matrixial clusters. " (Gorge(l), pp.11-13. )
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> I just came back from a Arabs/Jews/Palestinians/Israelis peaceful 
> demonstration at the Erez Crossing Gate between Israel and Gaza. There 
> will be a demonstration in Tel Aviv on the 2 of December.
> Bracha
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