The Figure of the Ordinary Man: Rests and Traces

The following text tries to examine a poetics of the rest in which the figure of the ordinary man is included. We will ask ourselves about the way in which absences and traces play a role in the determination of the real. How do cultural formations respond to these determinations and which are the roles played by memory and oblivion? In asking these questions we will have to have both a literary and a theoretical perspective given by this investigation of a living spectrality. The banal and the ordinary are both zones of insignificance that can haunt us by means of their unsolvable reality. How do we enter in relation to these zones of insignificance and how is the hidden real revealed in its fragmentary, unshaped memory?

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