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Claude Piron Beholds His Beloved

2012; University of Iowa; Volume: 42; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.17077/0021-065x.7222

2330-0361

Emily Martin,

Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis

The Post-Natural Theater is an attempted model of technology's future effect on evolution.Natural landscapes and fertility are encapsulated in dioramas existing between people, as physical translations of human relationships.Existing systems of language are broken down and re-coded.Projected onto the screen of the Theater are histories of the Natural World. the iowa reviewPost-Naturalism or Another Theater, A. Terrain in which individual entities [humans b and c, and d] are no longer as important as their relationships [bc, cd, bd] with one another.E. The space [f] between.G.The Diorama: the space of a relationship is encapsulated here, in geometry, in a prism, perhaps, of facing shapes and corresponding planes, or a sphere, its enclosed terrain mappable topographically and cross-sectionally, studied, rendered, and Held, in glass, or latex, or an analogous fiber, or an analogy.This compressed, miniature landscape belongs to its surrounding humans, as much as a physical characteristic can belong to its embodiment.I. Using one's hands, one can hold this space, support its weight.Hands; and one must, an infinite number must, care for these dioramic ecosystems, landscapes of relationships.Fertilize them with human interaction, speech, thought.Enablers of growth.Lean against the outside if necessary, sleep pressed against the glass and wake up to an outline of condensation.J. Landscape [f of bc]: Your intimacy is a rainforest enclosed in a plastic tank and it is wet and it overflows and it cannot stop growing.Its fertility is almost disgusting.Its excess.And you touch it; you feel the change in temperature and humidity within this plastic on the skin of your hand placed inside.Its excess is sustained.This moss is thick and this landscape is heavy.K. The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing in a single real place several spaces, several sites that are in themselves incompatible.Thus it is that the theater brings onto the rectangle of the stage, one after the other, a whole series of places that are foreign to one another; thus it is that the cinema is a very odd rectangular room, at the end of which, on a two-dimensional screen, one sees the projection of a three-dimensional space. 1 L. The diorama is no obstacle to flow: each exists in its own dimension, its own plane folded in on other planes.There was a time when relationships had to be carried around; human space has necessitated evolution.There are infinite folded dimensions, thus, we are able to move freely without running into a landscape in the middle of a hallway or a dark movie theater.Yet we can access these dimensions, unfold them intuitively: a diorama can be observed, touched, held, when necessary or desired.M. Take bc and cd.Space [f] of bc does not interfere with Space [o] of cd formally, yet Contents [o] affect Contents [f].[e.g., Perhaps as the humidity index of Rainforest o rises, the water level of Lake f sinks.][Perhaps Lake f is the friendship of humans c and d.]