Agential Orange
Immortal Performatives and Writing with Ashes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16714768 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Walter Faro (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Postmodern Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1053-1920 • E-ISSN: 1053-1920 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/pmc.2018.0012 |
| OpenAlex | W2902425345 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay is a case study of the author's late father and his processes of coming to know himself through a relationship with Agent Orange, a deadly and untraceable chemical. In performatively demonstrating the agential forces of nonhuman others at work, the essay troubles idiomatic written forms in order to navigate the personal and professional sites of Agent Orange's emergences in this man's life, which were confined neither to the hospital nor the home, the social nor the material, health nor sickness, and which blurred the lines between any such binaries. In the end, a way forward, even in death, is conceptualized through the paradigm of a social-material world
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Literature · Orange (colour · Performative utterance · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Artistic and Creative Research · Chemistry · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · History · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |