sedgwick’s reparative vs paranoid reading reminds me of susan sontag’s “against interpretation”: “To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world–in order to set up a shadow world of ‘meanings.’ […] The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have.”
it sounded like you broke away from interpretation and experienced immediately what you had
“Rejecting the negative affect theory of paranoid reading, Sedgwick invites us to approach a work of art through a reparative frame of mind in order to appreciate its redemptive, renewing, and healing potential.” Absolutely beautiful line!
This has inspired me to start logging my different narratives of past events -- so fascinating how our narratives conflict and change over time! Love this especially: "The simplest way to do this is to describe events as cleanly as possible and avoid drawing conclusions from them. Let the facts speak the truth."
sedgwick’s reparative vs paranoid reading reminds me of susan sontag’s “against interpretation”: “To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world–in order to set up a shadow world of ‘meanings.’ […] The world, our world, is depleted, impoverished enough. Away with all duplicates of it, until we again experience more immediately what we have.”
it sounded like you broke away from interpretation and experienced immediately what you had
“Rejecting the negative affect theory of paranoid reading, Sedgwick invites us to approach a work of art through a reparative frame of mind in order to appreciate its redemptive, renewing, and healing potential.” Absolutely beautiful line!
This has inspired me to start logging my different narratives of past events -- so fascinating how our narratives conflict and change over time! Love this especially: "The simplest way to do this is to describe events as cleanly as possible and avoid drawing conclusions from them. Let the facts speak the truth."