Writing Death

ISBN: 9789081709101 出版年：2011 页码：114 Fernando, Jeremy punctum books

Writing Death opens a meditation on the possibility of mourning; of whether there is a subject, or even object, that one mourns鈥攐f whether one is mourning, can only mourn, the very impossibility of mourning itself. The manuscript is framed by two attempts at mourning鈥擜vital Ronell 鈥淭he Tactlessness of an Unending Fadeout鈥?and Jeremy Fernando 鈥渁dieu.鈥?In-between鈥攆or this is where both pieces posit the possibility of attending to the passing, the memory, the fading of the person鈥攊s an attempt to think this impossibility. The text is continually haunted by the question of whether one is mourning the person as such, or a particular version of the person, a reading of the person. And in reading another, in attempting to respond to the other, one can never have the metaphysical comfort that one is reading accurately, correctly; in fact, one may always already be re-writing the person. Thus, all one can do is attempt to mourn the name of that person, whilst never being certain of whether her name even refers to her any longer. All one can do is write death.