Posted by gavin | Jul 24th, 2009
Excerpt: I Feel Therefore I Think
Goliath
Extending trauma studies into new territory, Jill Bennett proposes a philosophically informed way of engaging politically with traumatic feeling in visual art. She does not present a new philosophical theory of affect, but her mapping of observations from trauma studies onto Gilles Deleuze’s perspectives on art and thought is innovative. She draws first from Proust...