Le geste risque-tout : Écrire
Among physiological and technical gestures, writing is essentially a reversed gesture. Hence the metaphysical ambiguity attached to writing, with its mnemomorphic/hypomnemata effects – as it bypasses memory and develops as a complex system based on a risky trade-off. Writing, as Proust suggests in T...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Université de Bourgogne
2018-07-01
|
| Series: | Interfaces |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/482 |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| Summary: | Among physiological and technical gestures, writing is essentially a reversed gesture. Hence the metaphysical ambiguity attached to writing, with its mnemomorphic/hypomnemata effects – as it bypasses memory and develops as a complex system based on a risky trade-off. Writing, as Proust suggests in Time regained, entirely relinquishes the world of sensible immediacy to devote itself heroically to win it back through reconstruction – it cuts itself from the world to replace it with an analysis of it, without ever knowing whether this “catastrophic” attempt will be successful. |
|---|---|
| ISSN: | 2647-6754 |