N(exactly)P - numbers and writing

[matthew cissell]

Bom dia,

I found this interesing and wanted to share it. Steven Connor at
Cambridge: We have lived for some time under the dominion of number, a
dominion that is likely only to be consolidated in the future. The world of
numbers seems to become ever more coextensive with the world as such. And
for some time, the words of art and literature have represented through an
increasingly piercing pathos of exception, their task being to secure the
possibility of qualities amid and against quantity. What I would like to do
here is to illustrate and understand an opposite tendency in writing, the
tendency to approach if not actually to merge with the mathematical world,
and to draw writing closer to it rather than recoiling from it.

Could be read alongside Pynchon though it doesn't look like he works with
TP.

Lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBAMfXThp0Q

There is also a PDF of his lecture available.

ciao
mc
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