Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces
Sarah Wood, "Without Mastery: Reading and Other Forces "
English | ISBN: 0748669973 | 2014 | 208 pages | PDF | 759 KB
English | ISBN: 0748669973 | 2014 | 208 pages | PDF | 759 KB
Without Mastery engages the pleasures and rigours of reading, invoking Shakespeare’s Weird Sisters, Plato’s Lady Necessity, Freud, Derrida, Cixous, animals, angels, ghosts and children to explore our desire for mastery - especially the omnipotence of thoughts. Masterful thinking has brought the planet into environmental crisis. The acquiescence of reading, Wood shows, allows us to make contact with the unthinkable.
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