ALCHEMICAL REFIGURATION &
REBIRTH OF NARRATIVE COSMOS
THROUGH ALCHEMICAL STAGES, THE SYMBOLIC BODY RECONSTITUTES ITSELF AS A LIVING NARRATIVE COSMOS.
Within the original signifier–signified relation, as well as in the linguistic and meta-linguistic dimensions of Alchemical Tarot, I enact deterritorialization by undoing their conventional totalities. This collapse engenders a pluralistic splitting of expression-entities, content-entities, and heterogeneous imaginaries (for example, fire might signify violence, reproduction, wind, or “you”; water might signify anxiety, god, illusion, or “me”). Anchored in alchemy’s four principal operations—Nigredo (blackening), Albedo (whitening), Citrinitas (yellowing), and Rubedo (reddening)—I incorporate the “deterritorialized Tarot-card-as-material” to inaugurate a novel, open-ended, self-generating narrative cosmos (reflecting a machine-like oral-desire), free of mechanical repetition. In other words, subjectification is the affirmation, expansion, evocation, death, and rebirth of all things within the subject.
REBIRTH OF NARRATIVE COSMOS
THROUGH ALCHEMICAL STAGES, THE SYMBOLIC BODY RECONSTITUTES ITSELF AS A LIVING NARRATIVE COSMOS.
Within the original signifier–signified relation, as well as in the linguistic and meta-linguistic dimensions of Alchemical Tarot, I enact deterritorialization by undoing their conventional totalities. This collapse engenders a pluralistic splitting of expression-entities, content-entities, and heterogeneous imaginaries (for example, fire might signify violence, reproduction, wind, or “you”; water might signify anxiety, god, illusion, or “me”). Anchored in alchemy’s four principal operations—Nigredo (blackening), Albedo (whitening), Citrinitas (yellowing), and Rubedo (reddening)—I incorporate the “deterritorialized Tarot-card-as-material” to inaugurate a novel, open-ended, self-generating narrative cosmos (reflecting a machine-like oral-desire), free of mechanical repetition. In other words, subjectification is the affirmation, expansion, evocation, death, and rebirth of all things within the subject.
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