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Plastic Critique

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I have become interested again in “reading”—the way while sitting in this place or that, all sorts of sense impressions interrupt, “intra-act,” become entangled in the work of reading—reading which then becomes choreographic, a mobile set of trajectories, trajectories of the mind and of a body that stands up, wanders around, comes back to a place, figuratively and more literally. When I write of “here” in what follows, there is a palimpsest of a sort at play. “Here” signals the now of writing, or writing/reading, and it signals something a bit more opaque: something like the feeling of “here,” the feeling of nowness or presence.

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Gotman, K. (2023). Plastic Critique. In: Bayley, A., Chan, J. (eds) Diffracting New Materialisms. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18607-3_16

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