Mimesis on the edge.

In what follows I offer a perspective on how the ‘dialectical image’ might speak to what is revolutionary and catastrophic in our experiences and relations. It may be impossible to directly address the psychic and affective content of our moment of danger, or the pain, and perhaps ecstasy, of the co...

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Publicado en:New Writing: The International Journal for the Practice & Theory of Creative Writing Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 496 - 500
Autor principal: Gawel, Kelly
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Nov2019
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Sumario:In what follows I offer a perspective on how the ‘dialectical image’ might speak to what is revolutionary and catastrophic in our experiences and relations. It may be impossible to directly address the psychic and affective content of our moment of danger, or the pain, and perhaps ecstasy, of the constellations that might emerge from it. Here I approach these contradictions by way of mimetic invocation. I make an offering to an unspeakable passing, perhaps a space these things can move through, or reside. It comes out of my fraught yet potent attempts to inhabit such possibilities and limits and hopes to speak to these places in those who read it.