Notes on Writing as Vertigo

• Autores: Satish Padiyar
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 34, Nº. 2, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Creative Writing and Art History Edited by Catherine Grant and Patricia Rubin), págs. 412-422
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • What might be gained from a fusion of the discourse of art history and creative writing? This essay focuses on two exemplary writers of modernity, the 'hommeplume' Gustave Flaubert and the stylist Theodor W. Adorno, in order to reflect on how the act of creating a poetic sentence and the work of substitution can involve for the writer aporia, nausea and vertigo. These are the attendant risks of the subject(s) of art history attaining a chosen freedom. Via Kant and Derrida, I conclude that a freedom of writing is critically allied to the fate of the university and the distribution of power therein. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.