Staging Aporia - Putting together impossible things

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.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Hope Davy
• Publisher: Passagen Verlag
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.2021
• EAN: 9783709204801
• ISBN: 978-3-7092-0480-1
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 20 mm x 238 mm
• Weight: 506 g
• Series: Passagen Philosophie
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > 20th and 21st centuries