Littleton to Belgrade: ResponsesJZ |
As I am now working on the list, I starte to get messages from our reader. Maybe we can roll the snowball together with disciplinary strength generated from ethnic food such as Chinese stuff in European style. |
Performance = bombing without being bombed
while audience clapping hands and feet
Breakthrough into performance = drawing from the filed experiences
of Littleton AND Belgrade and a few places between and betwixt
Context = doing it at midnight
Text = counting the dead and dying and putting them on tables
with a magnified glass made by Ancient-Pluto Ages Joint
and a turtle feather writing instrument
Genre = missiles; spokesman
Ethnic genre = dropping missiles on the ethnic others
Folktale = telling how hatred started once upon a time...
Myth = being reenacted
Proverb = words before AND after bombing; no killing no saying
Oral formula = killing and then saying "I'M SORRY."
Vernacular speech = words that come out as bombs fall
and when they go astray
Ritual = repeating patterned actions with physical actions
without symbolic and verbal actions
Liminality = being thrown out of your home by bombs
Rites de passage = running away from bombs and
working four bucks a hour and dying in exotic ways
Memory = outgrowth of differential identity as it creates destruction
and dislocation by means of violence
Globalization = bringing together the world through the techonological
breakthroughs and then bombing any corner of the earth
to which the tactical weapons stray
Locality = wherever bombs and bullets taking strolls
Translocal = yours becoming mine
Transnational = my blood running in your veins
Cross-ethnic = crossing state boundarie and killing the ethnic
Transmission = processes of relocating bombs and
displaying and displacing refugees
Identity = the ID card with your blood-frozen-body
Folklore = never caring about folk-war or folk-at-war
Public folklore = publicly throwing more folks to war
and then teaching them how to understand the terms of the brokered peace.
Academic folklore = weeping quietly under tenure(d)-track
for the folks at war
Applied folklore = dropping more bombs on the folks in or not in the war
Ethnomusicology = bombing, screaming, weeping...
played with missiles remotely controlled
Material culture = cult of torturing those who are torturing with
certain explosive material
Vernacular architecture = what is left to rebuild after the bombing
Foodways = cooking barbarious flesh with flames from firepower
toasting to mate with blood wine
Dress = not beautiful without blood stains
Barbarous = must be treated in a barbarous way
Violence = must be extinguished with weapons
Civilized = having more nuclear weapons
Dichotomy = you are my enemy, therefore I must kill you
Dictatorship = doing things at will, e.g., Hitler to Jews,
NATO without SC at UN
Human right = you should give birth to more human beings
so that I have the right to bomb them
Equality = you do wrong, so must I to correct you
Demo-cracy = some people control others
Charity = letting you bleed and then stroking you wounds gently
Education = you must do it so that the young can learn it;
there is no indirect knowledge