abdel hernandez San Juan the crysalide of being

  The Eclipse of Evocation By Abdel Hernandez San Juan   (Anthropology Faculty at Rice University, Houston, Texas, EUA, 1997-1998) Translated from Spanish to English by Surpic Angelini   Dear Stephen Tyler    Entry     We know that the journey towards evocation takes us through a winding and labyrinthine path. This is the first break in our trajectory: to desire to speak of things that are difficult to speak. We have agreed to dialogue using correspondence, but we know, as Bakhtin said, that there is no dialogue if there is no reply implied within the phrases. This is the second break: to desire a dialogue and yet to be forced to write. In short, there is a double eclipse between the “what” and the “how”. Since there is no given path to follow in order to talk of evocation, I will begin with eyes closed, without and idea of a beginning or an end, listening to that music of shadows creates the eclipse of evocation. There, in that transient place, where ...

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Restitution of Voice. ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan    Written in English and translated to English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan     Within the theory of knowledge the concept of performativity has been related to the position of the literal subject. If the subject of knowledge is defined by being in movement and the object of knowledge by the effects of such movements --been performed from the position of knowledge--, then the concept of performativity should be seen through the different positions by which knowledge and the objects of knowledge interact with themselves. While a way can be taken from research problems, another one is possible by defining issues and themes, asking questions, etc, knowledge and the objects interact themselves by different ways according to the position of the subject. On the other hand, the concept of performativity should be seen as related with rhetorics, the media of the discourses and the variability of the meanings which beco...

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