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fundamentalthatitcanneverbequitegraspedinitself….Discoursemustnotbereferred
tothedistantpresenceoftheorigin,buttreatedasandwhenitoccurs[italicsmine].8
Accordingly,thecriticaltreatmentofpoststructuralismasbeingtangledinits
ownuncompromisinglytransformative,asitwere,potentialdemonstratesitsdis-
cursiveagencyviathefactofitssimultaneousrecyclability-within-its-own-lim-
itsand,hence,viabeinganagentoftransculture,i.e.aphenomenonunderstood
intermsoftheMöbiusstripasbeinganon-orientableprocess.
Tuscharacterizedbyitsunderlyinghomeomorphism,culture)senvisioned
afectivepowerwilllieprimarilyinthefactthatitisapproachednotsomuch
as,touseBarbaraKirshenblatt-Gimblett)sphrasings,uthesumof…inclusions”
butratherauprovisionalcoalescenceonthemove.”9Tismeansthat,similarto
theMöbiusstripwhosegeometryisreception-related,i.e.itexistsaswellasgets
transformedonlyintimeandspace-dependentmoments,culture,alongwithall
itselements,ispreferredtobeembarkeduponasapeculiarhappening,or,better
still,aperformance.Nowonderitcannotberead-theunature”ofperformance
translatingitselfintoaplaying-outofembodiedpracticessuchasthehabits,rou-
tines,orritualsthatSchechnercollectivelycallsurestoredbehaviors”andwhich
hebelievestobeattheheartoflifeitself,suggeststhatthesystemitstandsforis
aculturalsynaesthesiaofsorts.JustliketheMöbiusstripwhich,dependingon
perspective,canbeconceivedofase.g.aKleinbottle,acubicgraph,orarealpro-
jectiveplane,sotooisthesynaestheticculturetackledasonealwaysuinthemak-
ing.”Incessantlygettingrestructuredviaperformingitsoldpracticesinnewem-
bodiments,suchacultureisthereforeimpossibletobeinterpretedinoxymoronic
or,aspostmodernistswouldsay,ucolliding-binary-codes”terms,foritrequires
anapproachwhichunderstandstransformationasactionratherthaninterpreta-
tion(whichisactuallyaformofactioncontemplation)-andhereiswhereper-
formancestudiescometoouraid.
8
Foucault,Michel.meArcheologyofKnowledge.NewYork:RandomHouse1972:25.
9
QuotedaferSchechner2002:3.
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