Material Movements in Texts by Anne Duden
In: Anne Duden: A Revolution of Words
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Teresa Ludden
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There has been scant attention paid to the philosophical influences on Duden’s work which this essay examines through the intersections of Duden’s texts with radical philosophy (Adorno, Irigaray and Deleuze). When viewed in a theoretical framework, the striking dissolutions of selves and bodies in Duden’s texts may be seen less as an expression of a ‘female reality’ than as a challenge to the conception of a rational, unified, disembodied self and of the consequent subject-object relations in Western culture. I argue that the texts articulate experiences which re-draw the oppositional model, expressing instead fluid interactions between self and world. However, self and world do not become merged, and I turn to Duden’s aesthetics to reflect on the in-between space where dualisms cease to function and re-configurations become possible.
Aber Material ist stumm. Wo kämen wir hin, wenn wir auch noch aufs Material hören würden.