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Catttt Posted 6 years ago
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Resounding silence

1. Does "Lacan’s field of the eye/’I’ is becoming unmoored from its hold over the world" mean "the connection between Lacan’s field of the eye and the world starts to collapse"?


2. Does "resounding silence" mean "a laud silence"?


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In the shift from one kind of image to another across the space of the photographic installation, Lacan’s field of the eye/’I’ is becoming unmoored from its hold over the world and we are led into proximity with an enfleshed landscape of resounding silence. Although the sensation aroused is not a paranoid one, it is nonetheless destabilising.

  

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catttt 1. Does "Lacan’s field of the eye/’I’ is becoming unmoored from its hold over the world" mean "the connection between Lacan’s field of the eye and the world starts to collapse"? Something like that.

  • catttt 1.
  • Does "Lacan’s field of the eye/’I’ is becoming unmoored from its hold over the world" mean "the connection between Lacan’s field of the eye and the world starts to collapse"?
  • Something like that.
  • "Unmoored from its hold" is infelicitous to the point of inscrutability.
  • catttt 2.
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catttt1. Does "Lacan’s field of the eye/’I’ is becoming unmoored from its hold over the world" mean "the connection between Lacan’s field of the eye and the world starts to collapse"?

Something like that. "Unmoored from its hold" is infelicitous to the point of inscrutability.

catttt2. Does "resounding silence" mean "a laud silen

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