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008			200729r20202016nyu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9780998237558
035			_a(OCoLC)1183377912
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050		4	_aPN6338.L55 _bM64 2016
100	1		_aMohaghegh, Jason Bahbak, _d1979- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aElemental Disappearances / _cby Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Dejan Lukić.
264		1	_aBaltimore, Maryland : _bProject Muse, _c2020
264		3	_aBaltimore, Md. : _bProject MUSE, _c2020
264		4	_c©2020
300			_a1 online resource (164 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.
506	0		_aOpen Access _fUnrestricted online access _2star
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.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
700	1		_aLukić, Dejan, _eauthor.
710	2		_aProject Muse, _edistributor.
776	1	8	_iPrint version: _z9780998237558
710	2		_aProject Muse. _edistributor
830		0	_aBook collections on Project MUSE.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/book/76519/
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