Staging Aporia

Putting together impossible things

von Jennifer Hope Davy

296 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

How can one not infinitely arrive, and hence never arrive, at aporias? The aporia is, in part, simply the rhetorical device staged as a kind of mourning, where, like mourning, staging is a way of mobilising impasse. This enactment is set forth primarily through Derrida’s Aporias, combing through Heidegger, Levinas, Freud, and Agamben’s notion of potentiality and a poetics of inoperativity. Crisscrossing this stage are sustained encounters with works by Caravaggio, Manet, The Atlas Group/Walid Raad, Duchamp, Frances Alÿs, Cezanne, Johanna Billing, and Carlos Amorales. Emphasising the gerund, these stagings are sightings and citings (Samuel Weber), where „signifiability“ is exposed in perpetuity, enabling a constant taking place, displacing, and replacing of signification. 

• Reihe: Passagen Philosophie
• ISBN: 9783709204801
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.11.2021
• Genre: Philosophie/20., 21. Jahrhundert
• Verlag: Passagen