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    Writing the invisible: authoritative critique, homophonic image
    Adler, Robyn Christine ( 2022)
    Like psychoanalysis, educating and governing, Writing the invisible is an impossible task. The project leans on the potency of the impossible as that which alone can affirmatively mobilise one’s imaginary in an act precipitated by a singular judgement anchored in the real — the logical writing of the jouissance of the symptom. It asks, what is it to write as a subtraction from the overabundance in circulation? With Mondzain, it interrogates the role of the image in the conflation of authority with power as an economic manoeuvre that disables critique via a dispositif of interminable crisis, usurping the authority of the author in a suspended temporality hinged to a promise of a future never to come. Writing the Invisible is emphatically not an unveiling and rendering present an absence as if there existed some Being to be revealed, but writing as an artifice that emerges from the encounter with the obstacle — the disjunction, non-relation, void — that inheres in speaking beings as a result of the semblance and equivocity of discourse. Writing the invisible refuses the interminability of semblance by considering what is enigmatically written there as the passionate force of the signifier, bound absolutely to the traumatic kernel of singularity that one has as symptom. It has, as genesis and aim, an effect of truth. Writing the invisible seeks to resist the capture of bodies in biopolitical relational ties and invoke the desire in others to go on telling their own stories – rooted in the truths that drive them as constituent fictions that remain to be constructed. Endowed with authority on the side of the author and not institutions, by insisting no image comes to occupy the place of truth, authoritative critique increases the authority of others through the participation in homophonic images that resound against the dissonance of civilisation such that new images can emerge, remaining in motion and motioning remains. It is thus a truly political gesture for a collective that shares in the materiality of language in place of the sharing of goods and puts the imaginary in motion, turned towards the future and emerging at a time of crisis.