Chicken Theory: an exquisite conversation.
At various points in our conjoined Benjaminian journey, the figure of the chicken has played a part in helping us understand the convoluted nature of history when wrenched free from homogenous time and viewed via the alternate temporality of the jetztzeit and its illuminating dialectical image. For...
| Published in: | New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 415 - 422 |
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Nov2019
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