Abstract
The torch of ember and its puzzling knowability are my exemplars, serving
to open the binary of opacity and transparency in narrativity. I highlight inadequacies
in the binary of opacity and transparency by examining the works of Peter
Lamarque and Clare Birchall on matters of narrative and secrecy. I will try to see
how one can think about opacity/transparency through the lenses of speculative realism
and object-oriented philosophy. I do so by drawing examples from memories
of the Iran-Iraq war (1980–1989) and explaining how the language of remembering
becomes the realm of a tension between presence and absentia, between the unsaid
within the said. I explore how memory-as-narrative and narrative-as-memory
sustain the potentiality that eludes Orwellian newspeak.
to open the binary of opacity and transparency in narrativity. I highlight inadequacies
in the binary of opacity and transparency by examining the works of Peter
Lamarque and Clare Birchall on matters of narrative and secrecy. I will try to see
how one can think about opacity/transparency through the lenses of speculative realism
and object-oriented philosophy. I do so by drawing examples from memories
of the Iran-Iraq war (1980–1989) and explaining how the language of remembering
becomes the realm of a tension between presence and absentia, between the unsaid
within the said. I explore how memory-as-narrative and narrative-as-memory
sustain the potentiality that eludes Orwellian newspeak.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 1279815 |
| Journal | Cogent Arts & Humanities |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
