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book. The body is a pen that can write on another body serving as paper. But they are always first and foremost equal spaces. When Lepecki discusses technique he writes: for it’s precisely dance’s self-​depiction as a lamentably ephemeral art form, the melancholic drive at its core, that generates systems and performances of high reproducibility: strict techniques named after dead masters applied to carefully selected bodies, continuous modelling of bodies through endless repetition of exercises, dieting, surgeries, the perpetuation of systems of racial exclusion
becomes an end in itself, a goal of self-fashioning for ongoing retrospection. Such a degree of mnemonic arrest produces a melancholic culture in which progress is marked by the increase of intimacy with the past: whole libraries available through a home terminal; lives video-graphed from birth through toddlerhood, graduations through sexual encounters, surgeries through testaments. Rather than Benjamin