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Artaud: Presence and Ritual
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This chapter considers to what extent the desire for presence is destined from the beginning to impossibility and unrealizability. It ponders how much this presence can reproduce, alongside the empiricity of the stage, an absence of works, in a process of unworking. Assuming that this presence—always pure and never redoubled—can be realized, the chapter questions to what extent it can be displayed, via the distancing of the stage, without once again adopting and legitimizing its double, and without confirming the ineluctable necessity of representation. In the context of such doubts, Derrida’s commentary on Antonin Artaud’s writings is discussed here. For Derrida, re-presentation is (via a continual reversal of origin and supplement) the very condition of presence, and all attempts to evade its closure would only confront an unmediated contradiction.
Title: Artaud: Presence and Ritual
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This chapter considers to what extent the desire for presence is destined from the beginning to impossibility and unrealizability.
It ponders how much this presence can reproduce, alongside the empiricity of the stage, an absence of works, in a process of unworking.
Assuming that this presence—always pure and never redoubled—can be realized, the chapter questions to what extent it can be displayed, via the distancing of the stage, without once again adopting and legitimizing its double, and without confirming the ineluctable necessity of representation.
In the context of such doubts, Derrida’s commentary on Antonin Artaud’s writings is discussed here.
For Derrida, re-presentation is (via a continual reversal of origin and supplement) the very condition of presence, and all attempts to evade its closure would only confront an unmediated contradiction.
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