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My Obsession with DeLillo’s Obsession with Gordon’s Obsession with Hitchcock – figuring fiction

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June 10, 2016. My Obsession with DeLillo’s Obsession with Gordon’s Obsession with Hitchcock. Common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness. –Vladimir Nabokov in. Given that it carries the burden of a world grinding down, Don DeLillo’s book,. Scribner’s, 2010). 1993) was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2006. There was a man standing against the north wall, barely visible. Came to DeLillo upon repeated viewing of Gordon’s.

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“The Place of Green Possibles”: Ali Smith’s How to Be Both – figuring fiction

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August 4, 2016. Ldquo;The Place of Green Possibles”:. Ali Smith’s How to Be Both. How to Be Both. While this particular painting receives only a passing glance in the book, it establishes the novel’s primary theme involving many modes of vision and the pleasures and pains of seeing and being seen. I’ve had it both ways, so to speak. Ali Smith, an exceedingly generous writer, offers two ways to read. How to Be Both. I like a twist of yarn, 2 strands twisted together for strength. How to Be Both. Ho this i...

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About / Contact – figuring fiction

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Figuring Fiction looks at the points where contemporary visual art, art writing, and fiction intersect. Thank you so much for reading. PhD, Chair of MA Programs and Associate Professor in History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Art Institute. Daigle is a writer, art historian, and critic whose work has appeared in. 8220;My library is an archive of longings.” — Susan Sontag. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Send to Email Address.

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Bachelor Machines and Bridal Machinations: Bruno Schulz, The Brothers Quay & Marcel Duchamp – figuring fiction

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June 3, 2016. Bachelor Machines and Bridal Machinations:. Bruno Schulz, The Brothers Quay and Marcel Duchamp. Multiple durations are folded and stitched together here: 1923 when Duchamp pronounced his. Definitively unfinished; 1934 when Bruno Schulz published his devastatingly beautiful fictionalization of Poland, The Street of Crocodiles. The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even. Constitutes a knot tangled up with both Schulz’s narrative lines and the Quay’s puppet strings. There’s a queerness to ...

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Sophie Calle & Co. – figuring fiction

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July 13, 2016. Sophie Calle & Co. The sensation that has lingered from an artist’s talk Sophie Calle gave at the School of Visual Arts in New York years ago is the thrilling suspicion that she was quite effortlessly bluffing her way through much of it. And the closing line was good: If you’re thinking about following me home, don’t it’s been done. Stop pulling my leg, I said to Sophie. Enrique Vila-Matas. Because She Never Asked,. The History of Portable Writing,. Travels with Rita Malú. Begins when the ...

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Procrastination… and a little help from Tove Jansson | Amanthi Harris

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Writing. Storytelling. Art. Procrastination… and a little help from Tove Jansson. In Fair Play by Tove Jansson. 8220;Your uncle liked making nets [said Jonna]; it was what he knew, it was calming and familiar He was at peace, doing work that was his and only his He didn’t have goals anymore. To hell with goals,” Mari said. What I’m talking about is desire, about having to. I think you know. 8220;Take care of the boat,” Jonna shouted, jumping ashore. She ran up to the cottage. In Fair Play by Tove Jansson.

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Susan Sontag’s The Volcano Lover: Collector, Aesthete, Moralist – figuring fiction

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January 10, 2017. Susan Sontag’s The Volcano Lover:. Collector, Aesthete, Moralist. My library is an archive of longings (1980), Susan Sontag noted in one of the journal entries collected in. As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh. That figure of attachment, that harness, reins in the conflicting forces that drove and constrained Sontag, self-described as both a besotted aesthete and an obsessed moralist. In. The Volcano Lover: A Romance. What Sontag wrote about Roland Barthes is no less true of her: All...