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what happens when relational movement halts? when the movement toward is not accepted? does the affective pulse just dissipate or does it return to prick the sender? is this energy somehow compounded in the affected? or does it become redistributed/taken up by others? does it feed tolle's painbody?  how does a halting alter the course of …

performing empathies [the empathics]

I'm always thinking about what are the potentials for the body. What can we be? Who could we be? Who could we become? -Saya Woolfalk wanting to put The Empathics into conversation with Blackman's work in body studies and Manning's relational movement concepts, as well as explore this project from a cultural/comparative and/or visual rhetorics perspectives ... …

E. Tolle, “The Pain-Body”

Tolle, Eckhart. A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose. London, Penguin, 2008. Excerpted from A New Earth: The pain­body, however, is not just individual in nature. It also partakes of the pain suffered by countless humans throughout the history of humanity, which is a history of continuous tribal warfare, of enslavement, pillage, rape, torture, …