Nilling

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Publication Year:
2012

ISBN-13: 9781927040324

<i>Nilling</i> is a sequence of 6 loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading. Lisa Robertson applies an acute eye to the subject of reading and writing&mdash;two elemental forces that, she suggests, cannot be separated.<br><br>For Robertson, a book is an intimacy, and with keen and insightful language, Nilling's essays builds into a lively yet close conversation with Robertson's "masters": past writers, philosophers, and idealists who have guided her reading (and writing) practice to this point.<br><br>If "a reader is a beginner," then even regular readers of Robertson's kind of deep thinking will delight in the infinite folding together of concepts&mdash;the codex, pornography, melancholy, cities&mdash;that on their own may seem banal, but in their twisting intertextuality, make for a scintillating study of reading as a deep engagement.