A Conversation [electronic resource].

Hatje Cantz 2012

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Dear David I have been re-reading our letters. And what an interesting discussion we had this week, about the writing that one does for a singular reader; the ‘one other’ with whom one is thinking. So there has been much dialogue about representation; about performance, and sentiment and sincerity, each thinking to the self through thinking with a companion. And our question returns, often enough, to this: what limits are placed on thought, in the moment that it aspires to be understood from outside itself? This is not a lover’s discourse; it is though interested, and it is interested in the lover’s discourse. Our letters are using their form to provoke us to think about enquiries that we have each been serving for some time.You and I seem to have been reading and writing side by side, for quite a long while, unaware each of each until a chance dinner with friends a year ago, and, oh – we are interested in everything, each to each…
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