{"id":769,"date":"2018-10-11T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calumet-review.com\/?p=769"},"modified":"2021-06-11T15:12:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:12:59","slug":"tattoos-and-the-longing-to-be-another-world-monotheistic-bans-vs-contemporary-tattoo-revival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calumet-review.com\/index.php\/2018\/10\/11\/tattoos-and-the-longing-to-be-another-world-monotheistic-bans-vs-contemporary-tattoo-revival\/","title":{"rendered":"Tattoos and the Longing-To-Be Another World. Monotheistic Bans vs. Contemporary Tattoo Revival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The theme of belonging is certainly deep-rooted in tattooing practices of the Ancient World. I would like to explore a complementary theme: tattooing as an attempt to include world features on\/in the skin and body so as to attune an individual life to the cosmos. Even today, the inscription of signs on the body and the resulting transformations were and are\u2014I think\u2014intended as a sort of proactive means of controlling the world and its dynamics. In a sense, drawing figures on the body is very similar to drawing figures from the stars in the sky, and then using them for divination and the art of foreseeing the future. Writing the body and writing the sky, in other words, are two complementary but phenomenologically inter-related ways of exerting power over the world (or, at least, an attempt and the illusion of succeeding). So, for example, \u201cdrawing this specific figure or symbol on my body will make me invulnerable to hostile forces or safe from evil spirits or bad luck.\u201d In this sense, the trans-epochal practice of tattooing transpires a deep and somehow karstic \u201clonging-to-be,\u201d a living embodiment of the world\u2019s life and, at the same time, a symmetrical \u201clonging for the world to be,\u201d a spatialized reification of human mind\/body projections or affordances. In short, tattooed or inked bodies are intended as pro-active cosmograms.
Such goals carry a whiff of magic and, almost inevitably, have been branded by monotheisms as forms of idolatry. Nonetheless, I think the primary concern of monotheistic theologians had less to do with the signs or images in and of themselves, and more with a rejection of people taking on the work of God through bodily inscriptions and transformations, that is, imposing their own will onto \u201ccreation.\u201d On the contrary, the symbols, drawings and garments provided by monotheisms manifest acceptance, and thereby belonging, to an order, a specific order of things, which corresponds and \u2018reifies\u2019 God\u2019s will. In this sense, I think, we can interpret the monotheistic legal ban of permanent inscription on the body differently from impositions of some God\u2019s orders (for example circumcision, or invisible \u201ctattoos\u201d such as Christian baptism). These kinds of bodily or spiritual transformation are instead intended as doorways to God\u2019s world order, the only true one.
Within the spectrum of the religious resilience of monotheistic faiths, the contemporary revival of tattoos can also be read as an emancipatory attempt to break pre-existing social constraints and schemes, transforming every tattooed body\/person into a sort of hero, a superman\u2014a puerile aim, to be sure, but nevertheless attractive and widespread among so-called adults. In this direction, I analyze the phenomenological synthesis of conduct which \u201csigns of belonging\u201d and \u201csigns of a proactive powerful being\u201d might generate. A \u201ccode of belonging\u201d may very well produce a kind of control over the world, while at the same time \u201crecipes for the proactive molding of the world\u201d could become devices of belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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