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The Accident Waiting to Happen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gumpert, Matthew, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Artists' writings.
- Terrorism.
- Artists' Writing.
- Genre:
- Tracts (Ephemera)
- Pamphlets.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified], Sharjah Art Foundation, 2015.
- Summary:
- "Catastrophe arrives, traditionally, in the manner of an accident: from the Latin accidens, meaning accident or chance; from accido, to fall out, come to pass, happen, occur. The accident is, in short, that which happens to us: it comes from without, and takes us by surprise. "We are passive with respect to the disaster," writes Blanchot in The Writing of the Disaster, "but the disaster is perhaps passivity." To experience catastrophe is to enter into the condition of passivity. This passivity is directly linked to the externality of the catastrophe: that it appears to arrive from outside the system. That we are not just passive with respect to the catastrophe, but surprised by it, follows necessarily, I have said, from this externality, but also from the peculiar relation of catastrophe to temporality: for it is not enough to say that the catastrophe happens swiftly or suddenly: the catastrophe, rather, is a suspension of temporality itself..."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
- Standard Copyright.
- Description from resource landing page (Library Stack, viewed on 09/29/2025).
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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