Requiem for the Factory
Published on 22. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
122 pages
978-981-07-4336-9 (ISBN)
Description
Requiem for the Factory is a conversation between two forms of writing: language, and light. This occurs in a tale that attempts to explore the relationality of a self to her self through the figure of a factory. Told through an "I" that refuses to remain stable, one is
never sure whether this is a moment when the tale is recounted, recalled, or whether it is being told at the moment of telling.
And this is why this requiem has to be narrated. What is foregrounded is not only the fact that memory, history, is fictional, but more pertinently that the self-and the "I"-can only be uttered, perhaps even known, through fictionality. This is not to say that the self is imagined-unreal-but that the imaginary is in the very fabric of reality itself.
This is a tale of two writings that are speaking to, and with, each other, whilst also speaking in their own realms at the very same time.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
356 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-07-4336-9 (9789810743369)
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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.