{"product_id":"je-me-touche-9786079714055","title":"je me touche","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jeremy Fernando\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Delere Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Delere Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comparative Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is an attempt to read, to respond to, the Occupy Movement in four movements. Opening with a reading of Flann O'Brien's evocative short story, 'John Duffy's Brother', it opens the dossier of the generative powers of imagination: not just in opening possibilities in the world, but that what is brought forth is always already a world onto itself. This is followed by a reading of Hermann Melville's 'Bartleby the Scrivener', with a particular focus on the utterance, « I would prefer not to  ; not just as a phrase of negative resistance, but as a potential challenge, as a seductive challenge. The third movement is an attempt to directly respond -- if such a thing is even possible -- to the Occupy Movement in all of its potentiality: in no way, shape, or form, does the text attempt to explain it; instead, it attends to it in all of its possibilities, unknowabilities, absurdities even -- \u003cem\u003een bref\u003c\/em\u003e, as an event. It ends with an attempt to reflect on what it means to speak of something, especially an event -- through, and alongside, the slippery figure of the subject, the « I  . \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46491365212311,"sku":"9786079714055","price":2005.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9786079714055.jpg?v=1766348901","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/je-me-touche-9786079714055","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}