(re)Writing the absebt: lectures on Julio D’Escriván’s Séance from Derrida and Adorno

Abstract

The main aim of the text is to reflect on the complexity of writing when it comes across the musical. To this end, in the first part of the book, some of the fundamental positions of J. Derrida and T. W. Adorno are taken into consideration, insofar as both question the reduction of writing to inscription, criticize the dualistic drift of knowledge from a limited concept of writing and reflect on what exceeds the limits of what can be written. The second part analyzes, from the theoretical framework established in the first part, the work Séance, by Julio D’Escriván, which problematizes the centrality of the score and the complex relationship between interpretation, reading and writing in sound, to reach a critique of the primacy of the present and the strategies of the visual.