julia kristeva

recorded in paris, february 2003.

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[felixunus]

This is absolute bollocks! Kristeva is brilliant. Period.

[parispeter2]

I still think that's rather cruel. Julia is a friend, and a wonderful, profound and complex human being. I had to be pretty careful when I was showing her the Kulta Beats video for her not to see this one. I don't suppose you thought about that eventuality.

[apanhadordearrepios]

this is so diselegant

[Mnadarino]

We all get nervous before a freakish crowd of students and professors. Whether you agree or disagree with Mrs. Kristeva this shoot is unfair.

[weknowwhereyousleep]

what's this? grow up man...

[phthphbreasts]

id still bang her

[0neironaut]

grow up.

[radicalvegan]

Absolutely brilliant. I was mesmerized.  Enticed even...

[Discogen]

I agree, d38, and I'm tempted to admit your take to be more convincing than my Zizek quote - except I would add that given the history of hysteria as spectacle, the very fact that this clip appears here in public view introduces the subject of hysteria. Thus the expressions of outrage in the comments. In this view it is just as appropriate and convincing to read the gesture as protest.

[dymphna38]

But i think it remarks the innate will to speak, write; language itself in anticipation motivated by the other who speaks. To watch the anticipation surface at the skin in this way, is reactive in the restraint of not speaking; something she already knows without having to say. The "restraining order of the present" is having to listen/live through and yet already having a sense of a final outcome. The gesture is 'hysterical' once the subject of hysteria is introduced.