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'Temporariness is a scandal in our culture of monumentalism and its persistent search for permanence. Temporariness, the time of the ephemeral and the performative, the time of speech, the time of nature and its constant changes these times have little cultural purchase. In this volume two practitioners and theoreticians of time, space and the word embrace the notion of temporariness seeing in it a site for a renewal of ways of thinking about ourselves, our language, our society and our environment. This collage of fragmentary genres approaches the notion of mitigated presence to build an atlas of intersections attentive to our own temporariness as the site of aesthetic and ethical responsibility. This book is a scintillating meditation on the temporality of human lives and the contemporary possibilities of humanistic writing. John Kinsella and Russell West-Pavlov explore the conjunctions of memoir, theory, poetry, anecdotes, journal entries and other fragmentary forms in their conversations about the political realities of the world and the imperatives of human survival.' (Publication summary)
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John Kinsella and Russell West-Pavlov, Temporariness: On the Imperatives of Place
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 79 no. 1 2019;
— Review of Temporariness : On the Imperatives of Place 2018 multi chapter work criticism
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John Kinsella and Russell West-Pavlov, Temporariness: On the Imperatives of Place
2019
single work
review
— Appears in: Long Paddock , vol. 79 no. 1 2019;
— Review of Temporariness : On the Imperatives of Place 2018 multi chapter work criticism