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161 erín moure from O Cidadán document32 (inviolable) When “my language” fails, only then can we detect signals that harken to a porosity of borders or lability of zones. . . . (across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, not just the visual. as in planetary noise) But first we have to suspend our need to see “identity” itself as saturate signal (obliterating all “noise”), following Lispector into a “not yet”–– How a woman wanting to write can be a territorial impossibility. And reading (bodies or others) is itself always a kind of weak signal communication, a process of tapping signals that scarcely rise off the natural noise floor. (the noise generated by a system within itself) Think of Ingeborg Bachmann in her hotel rooms. Her unsettled acts were noise’s fissures. To see her as citizen is indeed to know citizen as repository of harm, where harm is gendered too. Myths of violability, inviolability, volatility, utility, lability played out. In wars, women are territories, and territories are lieux de punition. A César o que é de César. (Bachmann in Rome.) “to interdepend” (Clarice says) ...

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