Fragments and Lies
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Author(s)
Brinkema, Eugenie
Date Issued
July 11, 2024
Journal
Philosophies
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Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Citation
Brinkema E. Fragments and Lies. Philosophies. 2024; 9(4):105.
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Final published version
Abstract
This article considers the formal and critical consequences of organizing an aesthetic corpus around the philosophical concept of the fragment via a reading of Aryan Kaganof’s “Ten Monologues from the Lives of the Serial Killers” (1994). This experimental video sets spoken accounts from the perspective of the likes of Ted Bundy and Charles Manson alongside grainy, ambiguous imagery. Instead of thematic meditations on violence, the monologues circle around quasi-nostalgic reflections on the past and the nature of identity. The film frustrates any language of formal analysis that would rely on accounting for what is present in the film, instead proposing a sympathy with poststructuralism’s efforts at displacing the metaphysics of appearance. Violence is not what resides ready-made within the work, nor is it reducible to the realm of the visible or the audible, but is an unstable process bound up with the act of reading itself. The fragment as a formal problem holds out the abstract, general notion of a break in ways that compel a rethinking of violence as something impersonal, rhythmic, and grammatical.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Literature Section
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https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies9040105
