It’s the Childhood of Art “Treat Me like a Child”

Abstract

In a contemporary world of extremedeculturation and a modern society of absolute gratification, tyrannizedauthorshiptakes refuge in the infancy of art – the cocoon of the primitive text. By fusing percept, affect, and intellect, the singular nature of the act of writingthus opens onto the aesthetics of a primordial, original, and inaugural word; a guardian of authentic traditions thatbygoneerassought to pervert and future times willstrive to corrupt, while the presentage, lost in the labyrinths of post-truth, struggles to soothereactionary or progressive consciences. Over the course of time, flowingcareless and implacable, there has emerged a darkpoetics of tropism in whichauthorship and readershipmirror, encounter, and imprisonthemselves at the veryheart of literality.