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This chapter provides the theoretical basis for the book and elaborates the ideas of Jacques Derrida, Geoffrey Hartman, and Eduardo Cadavo. The author deftly works through their insights on reading to shape her own reading practice that foregrounds language, psyche, memory, and ethics.
The photograph is not a document. It is part of the puzzle made visible by the photographic, i. e. captured, the image and its elements are there to be read (Pollack 2011, p. 88).
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This argument is developed in the early work of Michael J. Shapiro. See his Language and Political Understanding the Politics of Discursive Practices.
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Talbot, “Introductory Remarks”, unnumbered pages.
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Talbot, Plate X, The Haystack, unnumbered pages.
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I take this term from Lisa Saltzman (2006).
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Tavares, H.M. (2016). About Reading. In: Pedagogies of the Image. SpringerBriefs in Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-7619-6_2
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