RE: Fair weather at last - Actifit Report: March 30 2020
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Thank you for those kind words, @josemalavem. I love that idea that the vanishing point on the horizon has literary and philosophical implications. That is an idea worth exploring!
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Hello, @jayna. Yes, it's a field of great interest. I have not been able to work on it as I would like, because of the various subjects I have to deal with throughout my intellectual process. I can tell you that there is a very interesting relationship with contemporary philosophy; I remember for example that Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (French authors that I don't know if you know) deal with it in their book Rhizome ; they talk rather about "vanishing lines". I think there is something in Michel Foucault and also in Paul Virilio.
In literature, both in theory and in creative work, there are several references; in the so-called "Theory of Reception", there is the very interesting concept of place of indetermination, which is associated with point of escape. I also remember a work by the Cuban-born essayist and novelist Severo Sarduy, on the baroque and neo-baroque (the text with this title exists), where he speaks of the point of flight. There are even two novels with the title Point of Escape; one by the American David Markson and the other by the Spanish Alejandro Gándara (unfortunately, due to the economic difficulties and access to the book that we've been facing in Venezuela for several years now, I haven't been able to read them).
Greetings.