Sidestreet
An ezine, new to me, is Sidestreet, worth looking at for Lars Iyer’s essay Cave Walls and Wall Writings: Blanchot and Bataille at Lascaux alone. As the editors’ introduction explains, the essay “takes as its subject the ’signature’ and it’s relation to the origins of art according to the philosopher Maurice Blanchot. Iyer discusses how Blanchot’s notion of the signature implies a division in the very nature of human identity, as it constitutes itself in the creative act. The cave paintings of Lascaux traditionally represent an origin point where humanity comes about through the making of art. Iyer’s essay explores how the concept of origin, rather than being set at a particular point in time, is continuously active, fundamental to self-knowledge and the human experience.”
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- The Cave of Lascaux Coming (not particularly)…
- The Sirens’ Song Lars Iyer�s latest essay Blanc…
- Down a Sidestreet
- Live Blanchot
- The suffering of our time
