Dislocated Positions of the Confessing Subject
This paper analyses the relationship between lack and possibilities of bearing witness in a post-historical context. We wanted to see how discussions about indeterminacy and testimony change the way in which we understand possibilities of truth in relation to the confessing subject. The limit of the...
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| description | This paper analyses the relationship between lack and possibilities of bearing witness in a post-historical context. We wanted to see how discussions about indeterminacy and testimony change the way in which we understand possibilities of truth in relation to the confessing subject. The limit of the language of testimony and memory generate experiences of incompleteness and inadequacy which make us negotiate the position of the confessing subject between an impossible historical truth and the non-discursive truth of revelation. We argued that the resistance to representation which drives the language of testimony reflects the improper position of the witness between historicity and existence. There is always an already lost historical event that we have to testify for and that foreshadows possibilities of significance. The witness can only generate discourse from inside a dislocated position which also marks the understanding of revelation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-5ad435acc6c1440f8f8f08be87cee15a2022-12-22T03:41:54ZdeuBabes-Bolyai UniversityDiakrisis2601-74152022-07-01510311610.24193/diakrisis.2022.637Dislocated Positions of the Confessing SubjectCălina Părău0Babes-Bolyai UniversityThis paper analyses the relationship between lack and possibilities of bearing witness in a post-historical context. We wanted to see how discussions about indeterminacy and testimony change the way in which we understand possibilities of truth in relation to the confessing subject. The limit of the language of testimony and memory generate experiences of incompleteness and inadequacy which make us negotiate the position of the confessing subject between an impossible historical truth and the non-discursive truth of revelation. We argued that the resistance to representation which drives the language of testimony reflects the improper position of the witness between historicity and existence. There is always an already lost historical event that we have to testify for and that foreshadows possibilities of significance. The witness can only generate discourse from inside a dislocated position which also marks the understanding of revelation.https://diakrisis.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/diakrisis/article/view/37testimonymemorylossrepresentationrevelation |
| spellingShingle | Călina Părău Dislocated Positions of the Confessing Subject Diakrisis testimony memory loss representation revelation |
| title | Dislocated Positions of the Confessing Subject |
| title_full | Dislocated Positions of the Confessing Subject |
| title_fullStr | Dislocated Positions of the Confessing Subject |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dislocated Positions of the Confessing Subject |
| title_short | Dislocated Positions of the Confessing Subject |
| title_sort | dislocated positions of the confessing subject |
| topic | testimony memory loss representation revelation |
| url | https://diakrisis.reviste.ubbcluj.ro/index.php/diakrisis/article/view/37 |
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