ABout his upcoming talk on 5/16/09, Robert Kocik writes the following:
One matter that may come up for me, as one of my own limitations:
I can't, for myself, refine and redefine the issue of disability as an end in itself--just as you caution against reiterating the limits of our bodies and our communality. When you say that we still don't even know what a body can do, this accords with my stating that ability is so extremely unexplored that we scarcely have reference to it (as social or subjective bodies). This lack of reference, perhaps the very basis of disablement.
Like the B. Fuller quote: “You never change things by fighting the existing reality"...I can't waylay in the negative, or place the constraints anywhere but within myself (however fitting and effective it might be to do so). Placing the constraints outside myself is disabling. It's strictly a matter of harmonics...the tune I'm tuning myself with. Not far from your patiency, where you drop the exteroceptive expectation.
All in order to prevent time from being taken away from finding out what a body and a community can be.
My focus on disability is simple. It comes from nothing less than a vow to help where I can, how I can, if I can and especially if I can't (as the only way of overcoming being unable to do so).
So, one possible element is a focus on the organizings through which we work as coming from the root of our need to revamp, and extending into effective action--as potently unanticipated modes (as in patiency and susceptiveness).
Last weekend I began a talk on Architecture and Poetry by stating that business as usual is biocide. Business is a prime poetry medium because, unless the shared support system we call 'economy' turns benign, we won't have anything left to try to improve. I have 26 businesses. One for each letter of the alphabet...for which, on any given day, I'm good for.