More drug wars stuff....
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*Q.*Let me quote from the introduction of your forthcoming
book,/Stupidity/: "To write is to take a retest every day (even if,
brooding, stuck, anguished, you are not empirically writing), to prepare
a body, adjust your drive, check in (out of respect) with superego, put
ego on sedation, unless you are a total
memoir-writing-I-know-myself-and-want-to-share-my-singularity idiot." I
take it that you would not call yourself an "expressivist" in the
strictest sense of that term. That is, I take it that you do not think
writing expresses a pre-existing inner self?
*A.*Only in the Bataillean sense, where there is an inner experience
that somehow gets "exscribed," as Jean-Luc Nancy says. Indeed, writing
has something to do with a constitutive outside, an exteriority, and
cannot express but only invents and produces the fiction, if necessary
and if called for, of the inside. You are outside yourself when it
happens; you are beside yourself; you are pumped up as a different kind
of being--or else you are deflated and defeated. In any case, it's not a
constitutive thing but a performative act.
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