A Manual Study of Incoherence: Five Movements Toward Uncertainty

Abstract

Displaced from a written text is the body of its creator, whether or not the text acknowledges this origin. Even when the body is the explicit subject of a text, language often fails the task of accurately conveying the body’s materiality. Bodies that are physically unfragmented can be written in fragmentary forms. Bodies that are fragmented or dead can be conveyed as continuous or persistent through the ongoing, durable material of writing. When a writer makes explicit the formal tensions between the text of the body and the body of the word, is resolution possible?