| Title | Dream of Flying - Flying Bodies |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Elena Loizidou (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0098.1.21 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-funambulist-papers-vol-2/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ |
| Copyright | Loizidou, Elena |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2015-04-09 |
| Long abstract | Is it possible to provide a meaningful relation between dreams of flight, a common variation amongst the form of dreams, and the body? And even if we are capable of doing so, even if we assume that we agree as to how we conceive the body, what kind of path-ways such a relation opens up for us? Would we be able to sense ourselves being moved towards different political, ethical, or aes-thetic directions than the ones that we have been given and taught to obey? Even if we are able through the dream of flying, to see how we can break the mould of formality, would we want to shape the break into a new mould, or would we prefer to remain suspended in air, de-fying gravity? And then again, to desire or want to remould the break provides us with an encounter with an agentic self — a self that can direct its future in this or that way, that perhaps, most probably it can’t exert such agency. Indeed, perhaps the most we can learn from this encounter with the dream of flying is precisely to let go of the chimera of remolding — turning into some form or blue print for the future the sense that such a dream may open up to us. |
| Page range | pp. 177–183 |
| Print length | 7 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |