Rogueish

Complex: Since I’ve mentioned the group’s emphasis on cutesy antics, let me ask if you guys normally talk with animated hand gestures and cute facial expressions.

Tiffany: But we are a lot more animated than normal people.

Jessica: [Imitates a gesture.] Hi, girls.

Tiffany: You know like normal people will say, “My head hurts.” But I guess we’ll have some form of gesture that goes along with it.

Jessica: Yeah, we do talk with a lot more action involved than normal people.

Sooyoung: I don’t know if you’re familiar, but our dance choreographer, Rino Nakasone, who’s been instructing our choreography from the beginning, laid out a set of moves and gestures that are fitting for each member.

Complex: So these gestures were instructed.

Sooyoung: Yes.

Complex: I’ve noticed from footages that almost all the performances are done with heels on. How are your feet?

Yuri: We’ve been wearing heels for so long, we’ve gotten so used to them that we feel more comfortable wearing them when we’re going up on stage. It straightens our postures; it makes us feel more confident. It’s not comfortable, but we’re so adjusted now that it feels weird without them.

Fanon, “Algeria Unveiled”:

One must have heard the confessions of Algerian women or have analyzed the dream content of certain recently unveiled women to appreciate the importance of the veil for the body of the woman. Without the veil she has an impression of her body being cut up into bits, put adrift; the limbs seem to lengthen indefinitely. When the Algerian woman has to cross a street, for a long time she commits errors of judgment as to the exact distance to be negotiated…. The absence of the veil distorts the Algerian woman’s corporal pattern. She quickly has to invent new dimensions for her body, new means of muscular control…. The Algerian woman who walks stark naked into the European city relearns her body, re-establishes it in a totally revolutionary fashion. This new dialectic of the body and of the world is primary in the case of one revolutionary woman.

Agamben, Homo Sacer:

This is why the Romans said that the Flamen Diale is quotidie festus and asiduus sacerdos, that is, in an act of uninterrupted celebration at every instant. Accordingly, there is no detail of his life, the way he dresses or the way he walks, that does not have a precise meaning and is not caught in a series of functions and meticulously studied effects….

In the life of the Flamen Diale it is not possible to isolate something like a bare life. All of the Flamen’s zoē has become bios; private sphere and public function are now absolutely identical. This is why Plutarch…can say that he is hōsper empsuchon kai hieron aglama, a sacred living statue.