Distracted |
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Author:
| Toufic, Jalal |
ISBN: | 978-1-931157-04-9 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
Publisher: | Tuumba Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $12.95 |
Book Description:
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Cultural Writing. Philosophy. Why do a second edition of DISTRACTED? According to the author, "Because it is now starkly clear to me that there is a limited number of concepts, figures and postures that a writer is here to create and possibly elaborate (in my case: freezing, diegetic silence-over, over-turn, radical closure with irruption of unworldly ahistorical fully-formed entities, the withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster, etc.). The extra material that was in my...
More DescriptionCultural Writing. Philosophy. Why do a second edition of DISTRACTED? According to the author, "Because it is now starkly clear to me that there is a limited number of concepts, figures and postures that a writer is here to create and possibly elaborate (in my case: freezing, diegetic silence-over, over-turn, radical closure with irruption of unworldly ahistorical fully-formed entities, the withdrawal of tradition past a surpassing disaster, etc.). The extra material that was in my first book still awaits its writers--paradoxically getting rid of it is indirectly a way of avoiding future imitators." Jalal Toufic is a writer, film theorist, and video artist who is currently Head of the MA program in Film/Video Studies at the Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Holy Spirit University, Lebanon.