#elaine scarry

[milksockets]

The goal of the torturer is to make the one, the body, emphatically and crushingly present by destroying it, and to make the other, the voice, absent by destroying it. It is in part this combination that makes torture, like any experience of great physical pain, mimetic of death; for in death the body is emphatically present while that more elusive part represented by the voice is so alarmingly absent that heavens are created to explain its whereabouts.

The Body In Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World - Elaine Scarry (1985)

[northwindow]

Elaine Scarry, from On Beauty and Being Just

[memoriesofthingspast]

🌹💎💠🔥🎻✨☠️

[dreamofmourning]

[echoland]

[lux-et-umbrae]

“Beauty always takes place in the particular.”

—Elaine Scarry, On Beauty & Being Just (1999)

[yr-bed]

Annie Baker's Radical Now

Read this interview on the way home from the theatre; this part knocked me on my ass (so to speak I was on the bus lol)

[milksockets]

Physical pain is able to obliterate psychological pain because it obliterates all psychological content, painful, pleasurable, and neutral. Our recognition of its power to end madness is one of the ways in which, knowingly or unknowingly, we acknowledge its power to end all aspects of self and world.

The Body In Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World - Elaine Scarry (1985)

[galescafe]

i want to live inside elaine scarry's brain. her endless lists inside of lists as she makes sense of pain ... obsessed

[checkoutmybookshelf]

"To have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt."

-- Elaine Scarry, The Body in Pain

Another book and quote I tend to think about when the RA is flaring. We have really, really got to fix the twisted sense that pain is somehow lesser simply because you aren't the one feeling it.

[memoriesofthingspast]

joy harjo; “in mad love and war”

[dreamofmourning]

[linusjf]

Elaine Scarry: Pain

“The absence of pain is a presence of world; the presence of pain is the absence of world.” —Elaine Scarry.

[loosejournal]

Beauty quickens. It adrenalizes. It makes the heart beat faster. It makes life more vivid, animated, living, worth living . . . The beautiful, almost without any effort of our own, acquaints us with the mental event of conviction, and so pleasurable a mental state is this that ever afterwards one is willing to labor, struggle, wrestle with the world to locate enduring sources of conviction—to locate what is true.

Elaine Scarry, from On Beauty and Being Just

[dipnotski]

Elaine Scarry – Acı Çeken Beden (2024)

Elaine Scarry ‘Acı Çeken Beden’de içerisinde yaşadığımız dünyanın hem yıkımında hem de yapımında rol oynayan acının dilinin peşine düşüyor. Acı en dolayımsız duyudur. Göz her zaman bir imgeyi görürken, kulak her zaman bir sesi işitir. Peki, acının nesnesi nedir? Daima inlemeler ve çığlıkların bulanıklaştırdığı bu duyguyu deneyimin öznesi bile tam olarak anlamazken, acı başkasına nasıl…

[milksockets]

"This same emptying of the body of cultural content is even more true of injury, for there is nothing in the interior of what had been a boy’s face, nothing in the open interior of what had been a torso, that makes the wound North Korean, German, Argentinian, Israeli. Though a moment before he was blown apart he himself had a national identity that was Chinese, British, American, or Russian, the exposed bones and lungs and blood do not now fall into the shape of five yellow stairs on a red field, nor into the configuration of the union jack, nor the stars and stripes, nor the hammer and sickle; nor is there written there the first line of some national hymn, though he might have, up to a moment ago, been steadily singing it. Only alive did he sing: that is, only alive did he determine and control the referential direction of his body, did he determine the ideas and beliefs that would be substantiated by his own embodied person and presence."

The Body In Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World - Elaine Scarry (1985)