For The Pleasure of The Text ...
Published on 12. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
110 pages
978-981-09-7903-4 (ISBN)
Description
At the heart of this book lies attempts to read: reading here being understood as the
openness to the possibility of another; a relation that occurs prior to any semantic or
formal identification, and, therefore, prior to any attempt at assimilating, or
appropriating, what is being read to the one who reads.
Thus, an event.
It opens with Lim Lee Ching's reading of this book; a reading before your reading, as
it were. And is followed by Jeremy Fernando's attempts to respond to the many
Roland Barthes - all whilst foregrounding the risk that, even as one attempts to read
as openness to the possibility of another, all reading potentially re-writes the other;
that his reading may well be an inscribing of his R.B.; that whilst reading it, you may
well be making your very own R.B.. In the midst of which, you will find a piano score
composed by Jachin Pousson: which is both a nod to the fact that Barthes was a
pianist, and also a note to the musicality of the thought of Roland Barthes.
The hope is that these readings bring, open the possibility of, pleasure: not just for
the one who reads, but perhaps even for - if one allows oneself to imagine - the
text. For the one we call, name - can do nothing but name - Roland Barthes.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
185 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-09-7903-4 (9789810979034)
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Jeremy Fernando reads, writes, and makes things.He works in the intersections of literature, philosophy, and art; and his, more than thirty, books include Reading Blindly, Living with Art, Writing Death, in fidelity, Tómate un paseo por el lado oscuro del camino, resisting art, Writing Skin, A Ghost Never Dies, The feather of Ma'at, un oeil d'or, I wish we were lovers, and Jeremy Fernando by Jeremy Fernando. His writing has also been featured in magazines and journals such as Arte al Límite, Berfrois, CTheory, Cenobio, Entropy, Full Bleed, Poiesis, Philosophy World Democracy, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qui Parle, RIC Journal, Testo e Senso, TimeOut, and Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine, amongst others; and has been translated into the Brazilian-Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, and Serbian. Exploring other media has led him to film, music, performance-readings, and the visual arts; and his work has been exhibited in Seoul, Vienna, Hong Kong, Lisbon, and Singapore. He has been invited to read at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in September 2016; and to deliver a series of performance-readings at the 2018, 2020, and 2022 editions of the Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento in Buenos Aires, the latter at which he also curated a filmic omnibus entitled reading dreaming malaya. He is the general editor of Delere Press; curates the thematic magazine One Imperative; is the Jean Baudrillard Fellow at The European Graduate School; co-creator of the private dining experience, People Table Tales; and the writer-in-residence at Appetite, the sensorial laboratory exploring the cross-roads of food, music, and art.