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020 $a9780998237558
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035 $a(OCoLC)1183377912
050 4 $aPN6338.L55$bM64 2016
100 1 $aMohaghegh, Jason Bahbak,$d1979-$eauthor.
245 10 $aElemental Disappearances$cby Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Dejan Lukić.
264 1 $aBaltimore, Maryland :$bProject Muse,$c2020
264 3 $aBaltimore, Md. :$bProject MUSE,$c0000
264 4 $c2020
300 $a1 online resource (154 pages) :$billustrations (some color)
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
338 $aonline resource$bcr$2rdacarrier
500 $aIssued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 $aThe things sought after here are apparitional: they appear and disappear at will; they perfect the art of materialization and vanishing. Such is the nature of living dangerously, and with it the short duration of enchantment. This collection tracks provocative ideas, artifacts, and phenomena rising and fading across different territories of the contemporary world. Through a constellation of powerful thought-images, the authors uncover spaces of an ephemeral and fugitive nature in order to generate a fractal vision of our time and beyond. A former communist prison island in the Adriatic Sea, now abandoned and overgrown with wild plants; the stone garden of a deaf Iranian peasant who dances ecstatically among his geological formations; a Belgian sculptor who combines wax and flesh to depict human and animal forms in states of half-manifestation, incompletion (missing limbs), or branching (morphing into other organisms); a cultural movement in Brazil that takes the discarded debris of urban centers and transforms their splintered wood pieces into massive labyrinths and underground caverns; a blacksmith poet in Afghanistan who alternates between tasks of hammering metal and writing lyrical verses amidst the smoke-clouds of his forge; a Cuban writer whose delirious fixation with the sea compels him to invent a language of pure untimeliness. There are countless sites of disturbance within the postmodern landscape, and yet far too often these disruptive "scenes" remain untheorized and misaligned, treated as random deviations and thus afforded no surpassing consequence or philosophical complexity. On the contrary, such micro-trajectories necessitate an archive and conceptual matrix that will steal them from their false obscurity and decipher them instead as the passcodes to an imminent global turn. For this, one must return to the amorphous outlook of "the marauder" or "the wanderer." This book, then, aims to devise an ever-expanding configuration of radical outsides: i.e. elemental fronts that lead to unforeseen principles; alternative profiles of experience (intense becomings); incendiary, ominous, or vitalistic signs in circulation across the epochal horizon.
588 $aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 $aTransients (Dynamics)
650 0 $aSocial adjustment.
650 0 $aEcological disturbances.
650 0 $aLife$vMiscellanea.
650 6 $aPhénomènes transitoires.
650 6 $aAdaptation sociale.
650 6 $aPerturbations écologiques.
650 7 $aEcological disturbances$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00901445
650 7 $aLife$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01198505
650 7 $aSocial adjustment$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01122264
650 7 $aTransients (Dynamics)$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01154686
655 0 $aElectronic books.
655 4 $aElectronic books.
655 7 $aTrivia and miscellanea$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01921748
700 1 $aLukić, Dejan,$eauthor.
710 2 $aProject Muse,$edistributor.
776 18 $iPrint version:$z9780998237558
830 0 $aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856 40 $zFull text available:$uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76519/
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948 $hNO HOLDINGS IN GTX - 189 OTHER HOLDINGS