Comments on: Undoing Yourself and Original Sin http://dreamflesh.com/blog/2008/01/undoing-yourself-and-original-sin/ Ecological crisis and archaeologies of consciousness Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:41:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Gyrus http://dreamflesh.com/blog/2008/01/undoing-yourself-and-original-sin/#comment-665 Gyrus Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:11:27 +0000 http://dreamflesh.com/blog/2008/01/undoing-yourself-and-original-sin/#comment-665 Well, I guess Hyatt intended the reference to be to the Reichian idea of body armour, knotted energy frozen into patterns that guard against emotion. Undoing that stuff. My comment was a general one, thinking about the wider implications of the concept of "undoing", which to me feels implies opening up rather than imposing, acceptance rather than the will to remake. Still, I guess you could take "undoing" and hook it up with all the utopian stuff I'm arguing against here. The Reichian idea that we "undo" the top two layers to get to the "inherently good" core. And, applied monstrously to politics, the fascist idea that we just wipe the people we don't like out and it'll all be great. There's the Christian idea of apocalypse as revelation, too; undoing the seals, etc. So yeah, a pretty simplistic concluding sentence there! Well, I guess Hyatt intended the reference to be to the Reichian idea of body armour, knotted energy frozen into patterns that guard against emotion. Undoing that stuff.

My comment was a general one, thinking about the wider implications of the concept of “undoing”, which to me feels implies opening up rather than imposing, acceptance rather than the will to remake.

Still, I guess you could take “undoing” and hook it up with all the utopian stuff I’m arguing against here. The Reichian idea that we “undo” the top two layers to get to the “inherently good” core. And, applied monstrously to politics, the fascist idea that we just wipe the people we don’t like out and it’ll all be great. There’s the Christian idea of apocalypse as revelation, too; undoing the seals, etc.

So yeah, a pretty simplistic concluding sentence there!

]]> By: Joakim http://dreamflesh.com/blog/2008/01/undoing-yourself-and-original-sin/#comment-664 Joakim Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:25:14 +0000 http://dreamflesh.com/blog/2008/01/undoing-yourself-and-original-sin/#comment-664 "The clue is in the book’s title: this work isn’t about constructing, building, making; it’s about undoing." Undo what? The illusion of perfection? “The clue is in the book’s title: this work isn’t about constructing, building, making; it’s about undoing.”

Undo what? The illusion of perfection?

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