Orpheus' Gaze

Writing is being a victim of a gaze. Writing, on the other hand, exists within a sense of vision and gaze; just like in Orpheus's gaze. The book in your hand, which is the first text of an experience that traces the thought of Ulus Baker, is a careless intervention through writing towards the codes of an impossible time cycle, rather than an attempt to understand or analyze. Such an intervention will also result in a writing experience that will clearly reveal what kind of perspective Beckett, Proust, Kafka, Blanchot and many others were victims of. Is the text a prayer or an expectation from someone else? In The Gaze of Orpheus, Ahmet Bozkurt reveals the discourse records of an unrelated relationship established in Western thought, the paralyzed grammatical roots of writing, a conceptualization he calls the aporetic trace of representation. Being me is an excess of being. The call of writing is a call to death, in the face of death. The obituary is also the writing in which another is traced; It is an intervention in the immediate presence of the nakedness of the face. The nakedness of writing replaces the call of the outside, the inside, with the presentation of the other as a gift of death. Writing is often an attempt to cover up what should not be written, what should not be revealed, the weaknesses that should be imprisoned in the pale reflection of the shadows, and the weaknesses that should not be revealed through the transparency of memory and the heart. This weakness is mostly revealed by the fact that the human being that oscillates between the self and the language veils itself with the veil of existence in the seductive gaze. All the corridors opened by writing will be a record of the loss of the always reproduced truth in language. For this very reason, writing has all the implications of an escape from action, an escape from existence.

Walking through the corridors of a knowledge of otherness carried by the call of the outside, without missing the historical-social imagination field that constitutes the discourse registers of writing, The Gaze of Orpheus questions the possibilities of a founding aesthetics mediated within psychoanalysis, tragic, nativism, modernism, cinema, poetic imagination and deconstructionist word-writing opposition.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 160

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Details Publications

First Printing Year: 2014

Number of Pages: 160

Language Turkish