Lisa Robertson's NILLING

Lisa Robertson's NILLING
Lisa Robertson's NILLING: PROSE ESSAYS ON NOISE, PORNOGRAPHY, THE CODEX, MELANCHOLY, LUCRETIUS, FOLDS, CITIES AND RELATED APORIAS (2020)

short bluesky summary 

 technically this is prose, like it says on the tin, but prose at its most lyric and delirious (complimentary)

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Notes [oldest to newest]

1. The "inner structure of willing"

2. Conversational protocols

3. The "linguistic tracing of subjects"

4. Language as "collective relationship"

5. The "prosody of the citizen"

6. Speech and action

7. Ecology as a model of power

8. Maria Rosa Menocal's "Shards of Love"

9. Benveniste and the shifting social contexts of words

10. Civis and domus