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What is there to see in invisible artworks, empty books, or blank screens? How do formal absences generate meaning? Constructing an argument by way of montage, this book is an annotated inventory of textual, visual, and conceptual figures of absence. Spanning different media, it reveals a creative tradition that uses absence not as a negative aesthetic category, but as a productive state of radical indeterminacy with its own politics and poetics.
Dr. Alexandra Irimia is an associate fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen and an upcoming fellow at the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne. She is currently completing a second PhD in Comparative Literature at Western University in Canada, writing about bureaucratic narratives in literary and cinematic fiction.