Flux, Fragility and Power (Potentia). Transcending Language towards the Construction of a Performing Body

Abstract

We can find certain codes housed in the interior of the rehearsals for scenic creation. Codes that, in most cases, are not to be exposed. There are some expressions, nonetheless, that transcend the rehearsals’ private spaces and leave traces between one creation process and another. A “leap of intuition” is how Blumenberg describes that enigmatic side of metaphors when imposed between two frequent sayings to refer to what surrounds us. Words that are definitely more than “difficulties in the formation of the concept” (Blumenberg, 2018: 92). This article takes some guidelines from Blumenberg’s metaphorology; particularly, when it conceives the metaphor as a particular case of the theory of inconceptuability (Blumenberg, 2018: 91). Thus, the concepts of flux, fragility and power (potentia) are studied as ideas that seem to impose themselves as central metaphorical systems to refer to peculiar scenic universes.