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recently adapted mother courage, and closed it with a short play (below); i'm
interested in the permission to despair... not to a vanishing point, but to
suspend in the midst of intractable difficulty. this
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On Fri, 7 Nov 2014, Erik Ehn wrote:
(not quotable :-(
Could you say something about the staging? And is there a relationship
with noh? (I've always felt that tragedy, violence, underlies the surface
of noh.) And finally, Raven, is
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(I sent this to nettime when I started thinking about the
history of the region; I have a number of texts and books
from the late Armand Schwerner, who worked with the
material. I've also been interested in semitic languages
and the
--empyre- soft-skinned space--museveni is known for exerting crowd control by just killing one or two
people as a ugandan friend pointed out to me. wade into a crowd, kill a couple
of folks, and everybody quiets down or disperses. this doesn't always work, but
seems
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I translated from Swedish to Spanish the testimony of a young
indigenous peasant from Guatemala, she walked from her village to the
nearby village to borrow some corn. The villages were in the
Cuchumatanes mountains, the border between
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It's disturbing that the same patterns repeat over and over again, that
they're successful, that the violence is a useless violence, that
everything is so unbearably fragile. We just had elections here, and I
sense the violence there
