As if*: an editorial

Edbrook, Laura

As if*: an editorial

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Edbrook, Laura (2019) As if*: an editorial. In: The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing. The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, pp. 5-7. ISBN 978-1-9162092-0-6
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Edbrook, Laura

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Edbrook, Laura

Abstract:

What does it mean to fall in love with a writer? Or rather, to be ensorcelled in some kind of remedial romance, or, maybe the question is, to practice weak (at the knees?) (compassionate) theory? The concluding paragraph of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Adam Frank’s essay ‘Shame in the Cybernetic Fold: Reading Silvan Tomkins’ proposes the critical attachment of love; of affection, gratitude, solidarity, as a mode of cathecting ‘a theoretical moment not [of] one’s own’ —a critical attention, attentiveness, a form of care as a form of practice which situates itself towards the/a present.

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https://theyellowpaper.org.uk

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art writing, poetics, reparative criticism, compassionate theory

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School of Fine Art

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16 August 2019

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