Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. We need to talk about Kevin Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! But representation is not merely a game: it is not only descriptive of the lived world, but also constitutive in function. We can know and access the world only through representation, and thus we need to behave as though representation were real, for the sake of our wellbeing.
This is how we mind the gap — how we get by, or fail to get by. She believes, as does Franklin, in a kind of manifest destiny, and in the capacity of representation to deliver us real experiences — to frame experience in a way that makes it real. And Eva, who had banked on her continuing life as a professional woman and company director, as someone able to face down her fears and conquer the globe, is likewise disappointed; she comes to realise that she too has mistaken what she has for what she wanted.
And so I can only assume that he discovered what I never wish to. That there is no barrier. The secret. As he grows older, society and its discourses make more sense to him; and the limits that representation sets around us start to take effect. He does not believe it, and yet, as Zizek says, if he is to find a way of living in the world, he must act as though it were possible to live in representation.
Another American novelist, Jonathan Franzen, writes reflectively about what it can mean to make works of fiction. After noting, with some sorrow, that his work did not achieve what he had expected — did not capture the imagination of his compatriots or change consciousness — he offers a reason to keep writing, all the same: What emerges as the belief that unites us is not that a novel can change anything but that it can preserve something.
And yet it generates an awareness of the capacity even the most self- satisfied, wilfully blind people can have to re-engage with themselves and with the world, and it preserves that community Franzen cites, in the consciousness that, despite the gaps between people and cultures and representational techniques, it is possible to face down the complexities of society, and feel our way forward into community.
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