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Donald Kunze

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Description:The Atlas is a book that, intentionally or unintentionally, serves as a grimoire. It is a book that, drawn from reality, aspires to shape that reality through its geometric regularities and textual refinements. Who could forget Saul Steinberg’s clever cartoons that turned space and time into type-faces, numbers, and other objects? The grimoire distills this kind of joke. It reverse-engineers its own writing. It turns the conventions of representing reality into a means of calling forth reality. Therefore, any book (any object, scene, being, or work, really) is capable of becoming a medium — literally — of real-ization. The attempt, in Part 2, to activate The Atlas as a grimoire, is not meant as New Age fluff. Any book is a grimoire if it’s expected to perform; maps and other framed fields are, if anything, performative. They imply movement, position, point of view, desire, strategies of completion, strategies of continuation … even a theology of life and death if you look closely. The Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges provided us with the ideal epitome of this in his fake report from the explorer Suárez Miranda (“On Exactitude in Science,” Museum, 1946). It is up to us not to tarry in the surreal moment between the evisceration of the correspondence theory of truth and the theory’s actual death but, rather, to realize the sublime service of the map as a lamella, a thin membrane that is neither dead nor alive, but which, in presenting itself as a suitable shroud for the Real, both creates a dimensionality (“fantasy”) and collapses dimensions when we uncover the still-alive, “exquisite corpse." The Atlas is not intended to add anything to Lacanian scholarship but to create a special kind of symptom. I would compare this to Kinbote’s abduction of his neighbor’s poem in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire. If there is anything to be gained, it is through a kind of triangulation. Fortunately, Lacan is more interested in the limits of mastery than pretenses to mastery. And, I am not the first to use “the Kinbote method.” Apostacy, as Borges’ Judas demonstrated, is a sometimes useful way to think about divinity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Atlas of the Obverse. To get started finding Atlas of the Obverse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 293

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Self-published

Release: 2012

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Description: The Atlas is a book that, intentionally or unintentionally, serves as a grimoire. It is a book that, drawn from reality, aspires to shape that reality through its geometric regularities and textual refinements. Who could forget Saul Steinberg’s clever cartoons that turned space and time into type-faces, numbers, and other objects? The grimoire distills this kind of joke. It reverse-engineers its own writing. It turns the conventions of representing reality into a means of calling forth reality. Therefore, any book (any object, scene, being, or work, really) is capable of becoming a medium — literally — of real-ization. The attempt, in Part 2, to activate The Atlas as a grimoire, is not meant as New Age fluff. Any book is a grimoire if it’s expected to perform; maps and other framed fields are, if anything, performative. They imply movement, position, point of view, desire, strategies of completion, strategies of continuation … even a theology of life and death if you look closely. The Argentine author Jorge Luis Borges provided us with the ideal epitome of this in his fake report from the explorer Suárez Miranda (“On Exactitude in Science,” Museum, 1946). It is up to us not to tarry in the surreal moment between the evisceration of the correspondence theory of truth and the theory’s actual death but, rather, to realize the sublime service of the map as a lamella, a thin membrane that is neither dead nor alive, but which, in presenting itself as a suitable shroud for the Real, both creates a dimensionality (“fantasy”) and collapses dimensions when we uncover the still-alive, “exquisite corpse." The Atlas is not intended to add anything to Lacanian scholarship but to create a special kind of symptom. I would compare this to Kinbote’s abduction of his neighbor’s poem in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire. If there is anything to be gained, it is through a kind of triangulation. Fortunately, Lacan is more interested in the limits of mastery than pretenses to mastery. And, I am not the first to use “the Kinbote method.” Apostacy, as Borges’ Judas demonstrated, is a sometimes useful way to think about divinity.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Atlas of the Obverse. To get started finding Atlas of the Obverse, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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