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urn:uuid:6a109b6a-55e9-4dd5-b670-61926c10e611 03 15 9789081709101 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Writing Death 1 A01 Jeremy Fernando Jeremy Fernando is the Jean Baudrillard Fellow at the European Graduate School, where he is also a Reader in Contemporary Literature & Thought. He works in the intersections of literature, philosophy, and the media; and has written twelve books — including Reading Blindly, Living with Art, and Writing Death. His work has been featured in magazines and journals such as Berfrois, CTheory, TimeOut, and VICE, amongst others; and he has been translated into Spanish and Slovenian. Exploring other media has led him to film, music, and art; and his work has been exhibited in Seoul, Vienna, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is the general editor of both Delere Pressand the thematic magazine One Imperative; and a Fellow of Tembusu College at the National University of Singapore. 2 A23 Avital Ronell 01 eng 00 114 03 12 DNF 23 literary theory 10 PHI013000 23 Philosophy 23 Thought Experiments 01 06 03 00 Writing Death opens a meditation on the possibility of mourning; of whether there is a subject, or even object, that one mourns—of whether one is mourning, can only mourn, the very impossibility of mourning itself. The manuscript is framed by two attempts at mourning—Avital Ronell’s “The Tactlessness of an Unending Fadeout” and Jeremy Fernando’s “adieu.” In-between—for this is where both pieces posit the possibility of attending to the passing, the memory, the fading of the person—is an attempt to think this impossibility. The text is continually haunted by the question of whether one is mourning the person as such, or a particular version of the person, a reading of the person. And in reading another, in attempting to respond to the other, one can never have the metaphysical comfort that one is reading accurately, correctly; in fact, one may always already be re-writing the person. Thus, all one can do is attempt to mourn the name of that person, whilst never being certain of whether her name even refers to her any longer.All one can do is write death. Uitgeverij 01 punctum books 04 01 20110606 02 WORLD 06 15 9789081709101 06 15 9789081709101 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01