Описание: I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendts idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Just beneath the surface of the phonemes, a gendered name rhythmically explodes into a founding variousness. And then the strictures of the text assert again themselves. I want to claim for this inconspicuousness a transformational agency that runs counter to the teleology of readerly intention. Syllables might call to gods who do and dont exist. That is, they appear in the texts absences and densities as a motile graphic and phonemic force that abnegates its own necessity. Overwhelmingly in my submission to readings supple snare, I feel love.
Nilling: Prose, is a sequence of 6 loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading. Lisa Robertson applies an acute eye to the subject of reading and writing--two elemental forces that, she suggests, cannot be separated.
For Robertson, a book is an intimacy, and with keen and insightful language, Nillings essays builds into a lively yet close conversation with Robertsons masters past writers, philosophers, and idealists who have guided her reading (and writing) practice to this point.
If a reader is a beginner, then even regular readers of Robertsons kind of deep thinking will delight in the infinite folding together of concepts--the codex, pornography, melancholy, cities--that on their own may seem banal, but in their twisting intertextuality, make for a scintillating study of reading as a deep engagement.
