UNSPECIFIED (2001) Blood math. CULTURAL STUDIES, 15 (2). pp. 241-257. ISSN 0950-2386

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Abstract

The text takes the form of a dialogue-a series of spoken fragments developed in correspondence by Phelan and Heathfield and written in an interleaved structure. The performance of this dialogue employed slide imagery and a musical score, and the correspondence was pursued through a game of spelling in which the participants gradually chalked out a word on a board. Each letter of the word stands for a thematic concern elaborated in the speaker's writing. Working from various anthropological, psychoanalytic and philosophical discourses on the nature of the gift, the dialogue examines the place of performance within various economies of cultural and personal exchange. Writing letters to one another, the authors move through the intertexts of Beckett, Boltanski, Heidegger, Nabokov and Franko B. The resonance of the act of giving is explored as it is played out in the relations between language and loss, calculation and love, memory and the object, the body and sacrifice, the arts of living and the arts of death. Aside from its conceptual address the presentation explores possibilities within the practice of performative writing and opens the form of the scholarly paper.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology
Journal or Publication Title:	CULTURAL STUDIES
Publisher:	ROUTLEDGE
ISSN:	0950-2386
Date:	April 2001
Volume:	15
Number:	2
Number of Pages:	17
Page Range:	pp. 241-257
Publication Status:	Published
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/11999

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