Dreamtime X
les presses du réel, Dijon, 2022

Dreamtime X is a diary kept between March 2020 and March 2021, capturing the conditions of lockdown as experienced by the author. Articulated in the form of 100 short poetic entries, the publication veers across a set of ambivalent perspectives. From emptiness, loneliness and uncertainty to glimpsing the emergence of non-capitalistic life, Dreamtime X brings readers into a labyrinth of possible exit. It is also marked by breakage and suspension, as the text wanders across the page, searching for ways to occupy the new state of confinement. As the author contends, it becomes necessary to write by way of absence. What comes forward is a weak theory of revolt, where the metaphoric figures of fog, delay, transmission, and dropped beats suggest a commitment to staying with the emptiness. Emptiness, and the closed down, emerge as potent interruptions by which to reconfigure, through a destituent position, the functions of the usual.

Published by les presses du réel, 2022.