Dear Isabela,

We concluded to take for this essay a freer approach compared to your former essay. For this essay, you could let go your neat approach and take the collage approach more into account. We were talking about how you could use your writings for Alchemical writing as a source of inspiration; turning the essay into a collage where there is room for different subjects and styles of writing, later you could use the samurai to make it more into a whole. But on the other hand, a strong collage feel might also work. You could also use images if you want. For instance, how images and text react to each other,

At last, you were already doing interesting stuff for the manifesto, like this text about giving, which starts in the first paragraph positive but turns into the last paragraph into a labyrinth without an out-way. You had the idea to let other writers start with the same paragraph (maybe they must not see your last paragraph, maybe only when they finished their own one) but add their second paragraph. This form of manifesto could also turn into an essay. We have to see along the way what works or not. How the community can be a way to break out the neat perspective, a collection of perspectives while one perspective can also be strong.

Best regards,

Hille

Thanks for sharing the text. It reads like a flow and you touch upon interesting topics. The most important ones are maybe: the ego, privilege (cultural power), protection, change, love, sexual desire, and the body. How are they for you interconnected? I’m looking forward to how your writing will influence your work (that you do in cooperation with Magnus). And how the results of these experiments seep back into your writings.  I asked you to add also an appendix to your writing, an appendix of sources you’ve used, with short descriptions of why those particular sources intrigued you.  I would also like to ask you to go into some of these descriptions into the differences and similarities between the things that are described in a source (concerning issues like the ego, protection, change, love, sexual desire, and the body) and in your writings. For instance, the book of Neige Sinno touches upon issues you also discuss in your text, like the ego, protection, love, sexual desire, and the body. You could write how the text of Sinno about these issues shows the same or different insights on these issues. The Chinese and Japanese philosophy goes also into these issues, especially the topic of change, the philosophy is trying to make us aware that the ego is an illusion, the non-doing without meaning. A lot of the Chinese and Japanese writing is written in a metaphorical poetical language because they believe you can’t write clearly about something fleeting, something that constantly changes. See for instance Lao-Zi. See post.

Also, the characters in the book by Iris Murdoch show a weird mix of the ego, protection, privilege, change, love, sexual desire, and the body. `They are tragic characters doing their best, they rise and fall, the struggle of human beings she describes touchingly. Like the book The Bell. See post.

https://www.vaia.com/en-us/explanations/english-literature/novelists/the-bell-iris-murdoch/

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/41829/9780472901388.pdf

Best regards,

Hille

https://german.yale.edu/sites/default/files/benjamin_translators_task.pdf

"The Translator s Task, Walter Benjamin (Translation)"

The Translator's Task Walter Benjamin Translated by Steven Rendall When seeking knowledge of a work of art or an art form, it never proves useful to take the receiver into account.

german.yale.edu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZOf1gvq6R4

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https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262537926/translation/