On the Nature of Lezra’s Things
Abstract
This essay seeks to trace a defective genealogy of scenes of reading in the work of Jacques Lezra. It focuses on reading as a wild methodological practice that combines —in an unexpected, counterintuitive, and undisciplined way— objects, discourses, and conceptual modalities. A selection of reading scenes from Wild Materialism and República salvaje is analyzed in order to identify in them an aesthetic-political thinking that imagines undercurrents and deconstructs concepts such as sovereignty, institution, and normativity, emphasizing their defective qualities.
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