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By Orchid Tierney.
Dante, Petrarch, Vico, Coetzee
For Dante the sense of his exile resides in an uncertain future. To be sure, the poem he writes tells the story of his journey to the beatific vision, which he, as a poet, however, cannot describe or remember. In reality, his poetic telling of it turns into the imaginative, metaphorical extension of his journey, a journey of writing. It follows that when we read the poem we are at sea, displaced, and we re-enact the pilgrim’s experience of exile: we “find” ourselves in a “place” where signs are confused. In doing this, Dante revives an established Medieval tradition of the art of exegesis , one that casts reading as an existential quest for the Absolute.
Richard Marshall interviews Giuseppe Mazzotta.
The Missing Links
Modern architecture’s dark side. * Abandoned train stations. * Faded outlines of phantom Manhattan buildings. * London’s streets of love & anarchy, Will Self takes a short stroll through the city. * Laura Oldfield Ford on London’s spaces lost to the Olympics. * Kapoor & Balmond’s Orbit captures the spirit of its time & place […]
Up Yours Too Guillaume Apollinaire
A very short B.S. Johnson film (via Juliet Jacques).