| Maurice Blanchot writes of writing as relation, a relation bound up with death, absence, and impossibility. This work seeks to explore through critical and performative means some of the issues that Blanchot's work raises. The structure employed here explores beginnings, taking up a method of engagement, extending it for a time, and then moving on to a different approach. The result is a series of openings, an open endedness, that serve as a commentary on the function of writing as relation. Writing as relation, as avenue, is essentially open and re-creative. Something always slips in from and into the margins, and the exigency to begin, to write again, is always present. |
