Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces

ISBN-13: 9780748669974 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 208 str.

Sarah Wood

Opis

Without Mastery engages the pleasures and rigours of reading, invoking Shakespeare's Weird Sisters, Plato's Lady Necessity, Freud, Derrida, Cixous, animals, angels, ghosts and children to explore our desire for mastery - especially the omnipotence of thoughts. Masterful thinking has brought the planet into environmental crisis. The acquiescence of reading, Wood shows, allows us to make contact with the unthinkable.

Spis treści

Through the Reader; Inventing the Reader; Try Thinking As If Perhaps; A Mere Instinctive Deconstruction; Close to the Earth; Beyond Me Nowhere But This Earth; Edit; Reading Matters; Some Thing, Some One, Some Ghost (About the Fires of Writing); Nightshift; Too Late To Begin?