LEADER 03789oam 22005174a 450 001 9910247446103321 005 20230621135728.0 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0157.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000001283596 035 $a(OAPEN)1004626 035 $a(OCoLC)1183377912 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse87204 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/38687 035 $a(oapen)doab38687 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001283596 100 $a20200729e20202016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aElemental Disappearances$fby Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Dejan Lukic? 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2016 210 1$aBaltimore, Maryland :$cProject Muse,$d2020 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (300 pages) $cillustrations (in colour); PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$a0-9982375-5-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aThe things sought after here are apparitional: they appear and disappear at will; they perfect the art of materialization and vanishing. Such is the nature of living dangerously, and with it the short duration of enchantment. This collection tracks provocative ideas, artifacts, and phenomena rising and fading across different territories of the contemporary world. Through a constellation of powerful thought-images, the authors uncover spaces of an ephemeral and fugitive nature in order to generate a fractal vision of our time and beyond. A former communist prison island in the Adriatic Sea, now abandoned and overgrown with wild plants; the stone garden of a deaf Iranian peasant who dances ecstatically among his geological formations; a Belgian sculptor who combines wax and flesh to depict human and animal forms in states of half-manifestation, incompletion (missing limbs), or branching (morphing into other organisms); a cultural movement in Brazil that takes the discarded debris of urban centers and transforms their splintered wood pieces into massive labyrinths and underground caverns; a blacksmith poet in Afghanistan who alternates between tasks of hammering metal and writing lyrical verses amidst the smoke-clouds of his forge; a Cuban writer whose delirious fixation with the sea compels him to invent a language of pure untimeliness. There are countless sites of disturbance within the postmodern landscape, and yet far too often these disruptive "scenes" remain untheorized and misaligned, treated as random deviations and thus afforded no surpassing consequence or philosophical complexity. On the contrary, such micro-trajectories necessitate an archive and conceptual matrix that will steal them from their false obscurity and decipher them instead as the passcodes to an imminent global turn. For this, one must return to the amorphous outlook of "the marauder" or "the wanderer." This book, then, aims to devise an ever-expanding configuration of radical outsides: i.e. elemental fronts that lead to unforeseen principles; alternative profiles of experience (intense becomings); incendiary, ominous, or vitalistic signs in circulation across the epochal horizon. 606 $aTransients (Dynamics) 606 $aSocial adjustment 606 $aEcological disturbances 606 $aLife$vMiscellanea 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aTransients (Dynamics) 615 0$aSocial adjustment. 615 0$aEcological disturbances. 615 0$aLife 700 $aMohaghegh$b Jason Bahbak$f1979-$0989827 702 $aLukic?$b Dejan 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910247446103321 996 $aElemental Disappearances$92264010 997 $aUNINA