Sounding the event : escapades in dialogue and matters of art, nature and time / Yve Lomax.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lomax, Yve.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Events (Philosophy).

Art and literature.

Arts, Modern--21st century.

Arts, Modern.

Physical Description:

193 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2005.

Summary:

What constitutes an event? Propelled by this question, Sounding the Event encounters a variety of theories and in sounding them out hears of a host of issues that have implications for not only conceptions of nature and becoming, subject and substance but also practices of time, art and photography along with theory and its manner of speaking. Sounding the Event is a book that is full of voice. It experiments with modes of speech and also explores dialogue in its writing and as it encounters the philosophical utterances of Michel Serres, Isabelle Stengers, Alfred North Whitehead, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and Alain Badiou. While making these thinkers audible, and beckoning its reader to listen to sound, both noisy and songful, Sounding the Event continues the author's commitment to the practice of writing as a visual artist. As it proposes that 'to think' is an event, it also invites both listening and laughter.

Contents:

1 A difficult beginning 1

2 A twittering noise 8

3 A single grain of corn and a song of immanence 38

4 A passage of time and a present moment that doesn't easily slip by 80

5 Listening to it happen 107

6 An impossible refrain 124

7 Dancing to the tune of the infinitive 137

8 Echoes 156

9 Fortuity 162

Index: Encounters with proper names 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-193) and index.

ISBN:

1850436738

OCLC:

56640643

Publisher Number:

9781850430436737