intertextual emotion
Every word you said
Every word I said
Every utterance behind me and before me predicating thought, decision, strategy, action.
If identity is not an immutable, unified, unchanging thing, than emotion is an art – a constantly creative enterprise.
Is profound emotion the collision of extremely compelling voices, texts? I am constantly evaluating? What is hope? Despair?
Emotion as an ethno-culturally determined set of evaluative procedures and models, filtered through the individual experience. The expression of those evaluations. The Art of loving. The emotional evaluation of the self in relation to a multivocal cacophony of interpersonal negotiations.
Love – the flurry of voices, of texts, of evaluations
Death – silence, the loss of a voice, the abscence of response
Longing – a voice in dialogue with the past, an evaluation about a hoped-for future, a speaking entity. Lacking a repsonse, but believing in its existance. Creative.
