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Singing the Zahir Away: Lucier Meets Borges
Alessandro Bosetti
The reason for the progressive collapsing of all memory into the two-dimensionality of a linguistic plane correlates to immortality, implying the infinite repetition of all possible circumstances. In other words, Borges seems to say that everyone will be everyone, sooner or later bound to write all possible books. In this conception of temporal events and their reduction to language, individual lives and consciousnesses are inexorably flattened to an infinitely repeated script: this is the final transformation of every memory into “words”—or sounds, we might add.
e-flux Journal
Posted: April 8, 2024
Category
Music, Literature, Avant-Garde
Subjects
Fiction, Memory