How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are
to attend to the proclamations that the representational
apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic,
ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our
critical moment, Graff Zivin argues, demands anarchaeological
reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or
untranslatability in works of philosophy and art. Rather than
applying concepts from philosophy in order to understand or
elucidate cultural works, the book exposes works of philosophy,
literary theory, narrative, poetry, film, and performance art and
activism to one another. Working specifically with art, film, and
literature from Argentina (Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Jose Saer,
Ricardo Piglia, Cesar Aira, Albertina Carri, the Internacional
Errorista), Graff Zivin allows such thinkers as Levinas, Derrida,
Badiou, and Ranciere to be inflected by Latin American cultural
production. Through these acts of interdiscursive and
interdisciplinary (or indisciplinary) exposure, such ethical and
political concepts as identification and recognition, decision and
event, sovereignty and will, are read as constitutively impossible,
erroneous. Rather than weakening either ethics or politics,
however, the anarchaeological reading these works stage and demand
opens up and radicalizes the possibility of justice.
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