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July 15, 2019

The violence of the autobiographical

The autobiographical is a form of rhetorical violence.

In rendering intelligible an account of our ‘selves’, we obscure the embodied and molecular forces which shape us and yet resist intelligibility.

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This is to say that identity is a performance that cuts away the processes of becoming in order to elucidate the presence of being.