For me, I think it’s where my eye is drawn to subjects that are radically liminal. I understand the camera is a thing that as a medium and a form and a photographic technology as a method to bring attention through all kinds of mechanisms, but would otherwise remain outside of the possibility, but even if it’s in the possibility of notice often overlooked — even by those who are interacting with the phenomenon. ~Steven Seidenberg
Steven Seidenberg is a poet, artist, and philosopher, whose literary work––most recently, Coda––probes the interstices between poetic, philosophical, and narrative discursive timbres.
Moving between sinuous prosody and obsessive disquisition to explore the structural evanescence of embodied memory, this work couples the language and concerns of authors as diverse as Spinoza and Kant with the raucous humor of Beckett and Sterne.
Additionally (and entirely independent of my literary work), I focus as a lens-based artist on the material and formal iterations of cultural and industrial production. These projects exploit both abstract and documentary forms—an embodied pathos that compels an intimate understanding of the limit point of human activity, from landscape transformation to liminal networks of decadence that are otherwise unnoticed in the visual field.
The nameless narrator of Steven Seidenberg’s latest work, Coda, attempts to trace the origins of linguistic and perceptual differentiation—of experience through the cipher of the subject, broadly understood—by advancing the linguistic experiments of contemporary lyric and narrative forms, moving between extravagant prosody and obsessive disquisition to reconfigure the conceptual imperatives common to many throughlines in philosophy and theology. Continuing the focus on the structure of memory and the decadence of body he began in his book Anon, Seidenberg here describes the epistemological regress of desire, intention, knowledge, and discernment, coupling the language and concerns of authors as diverse as Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein with a raucous humor in the tradition of Rabelais, Beckett, Lispector, and Sterne.
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