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Tilling the Fields Of the Ineffable, A synopsis of Consanguinity Disruptus: The Phenomenology of Incest as Limit Experience. Location is everything. For the linguistic rider into the liminal spaces of trauma the chosen landscape alchemically bleeds into the writer’s headspace, altering the observer’s terrain with a curious gaze. Consanguinity was written in part from the earthbound confines of a Highlander SUV often parked in the fog banks of San Francisco and the contrasting sun drenched pathway of the PCH, a balmy portal to the nonverbal somatic space for re-collection. From a noisy Loft in Berlin’s Kreitzburg district I sat and performed a second edit on the text written from my wolflike edge dwelling of my SUB. All the while, through the five years of its gestation, Consanguinity Disruptus kept pulling me away from the societal gaze and into the dark caves of sexual trauma recall. Ultimately, I found one location through which the sensations of trauma were filtered; the post-traumatic region of the unmentionable filtered my research onto the page as an act of transparency. Planet Earth has been a prolific site for viewable violence during the evolution of its reigning species the sapiens. As culture is introduced through the birth of the incest taboo, a new realm of transgression opens up for homo sapiens. While open territorial wars are waged, the body of the child is situated as a hidden ground for violation. Likely, if born near the end of the 20th century you will state terrorism or some brand of digital malevolence as the leading global site of violence. If born earlier you may name a well attended war. In actuality most violence is perpetrated in the dark, among the shadows of the familial construct. It is a sort of terrorism, libidinally imposed; it owns the faces of children and it claims the bodies of the accessible; daughters, sons, nieces nephews, granddaughters, grandsons. No defense budgets or well define visually decimated enemy lines exist in its wake. Consanguinity Disruptus is divided into a triad of realms echoing the anatomy of a primordial modality for introspection, shamanic journeying, in tandem with the corporeal investigations I make as I observe the inner workings of libidinal somatic mappings.

Author: Hill, Auguste

Topic: Biography / Autobiography
Media: Book
ISBN: 1793939888
Language: English
Pages: 174