The anorexic prefigures this culture in rather a poetic fashion by trying to keep it at bay. He refuses lack. He says: I lack nothing, therefore I shall not eat. With the overweight person, it is the opposite: he refuses fullness, repletion. He says: I lack everything, so I will eat anything at all. The anorexic staves off lack by emptiness, the overweight person staves off fullness by excess. Both are homeopathic final solutions, solutions by extermination.
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Tiqqun, from Sonogram of a Potential (full text here )
from Delirious Hem: DAY 19, FEMINISM AND FITNESS – CARRIE LORIG AND ELISABETH WORKMAN
*THE HANGED WOMAN angel/trickster, tree jewelry, hovercraft/hoverlaugh, light radar “To the outside world, a person with sacred values may seem upside down, backwards, the wrong way around. His or her behavior and concerns are different than those of society…..// Surrender is not solemn or grim.”
Georges Bataille from Visions of Excess (full text here)
Andrea Dworkin, from Letters from a War Zone

from “Variations on the Right to Remain Silent” by Anne Carson
from A Public Space, Issue 7 / 2008
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A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century by Jerome Charyn (full text here)
David Foster Wallace, The View from Mrs. Thompson’s House (full text here)
Gaston Bachelard from The Poetics of Space (full text here)
