In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall
(2018)
Journal Article
Hegarty, P. (2018). In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall. Angelaki, 23(3), 112-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2018.1473933
Blanchot took Mallarmé’s “Book” as the paradigm for an artwork that aspired to such excess it could not exist. And yet it partly did, in the form of the poem Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard. For Blanchot, this ultimate literary work acted a... Read More about In the absence of noise, nothing sounds: Blanchot and the performance of harsh noise wall.