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IZABELLA SCOTT is an editor at The White Review.



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Shola von Reinhold’s ‘LOTE’

Book Review

September 2020

Izabella Scott

Book Review

September 2020

To read Shola von Reinhold’s ornate, multi-layered novel LOTE (2020) is to encounter a baroque mind. It tells the story of a queer Black...

Art Review

November 2019

Actually, the Dead are Not Dead

Izabella Scott

Art Review

November 2019

During Bergen Assembly’s opening days, I am asked to attend a number of mock funerals, including one for a...

We have a confession to make: we thought it would be easy to interview Jean-Luc Nancy We knew that he was a very experienced interviewee, more than willing to answer questions, and we thought that his work offered enough entry points for a stimulating and prolonged conversation On the first point, we were right: we arranged to meet fairly quickly and his lifelong publisher, Galilée, sent us the proofs of his latest book, Sexistence (published in February 2017), which happens to be one of his best It is an audacious introduction of sex into ontology (or maybe the other way around), merged with psychoanalysis and literature Once we’d read it, we were not so sure interviewing the author would be that easy after all   Of course, we were aware of the importance of Nancy, sometimes named as the most influential French thinker of the generation to come of age just after the great blooming of French Theory His work is extremely varied Rooted in Heideggerian thought and influenced by Derrida’s deconstructionist ideas, Nancy’s philosophy analyses a vast array of concepts: body and nudity, community and democracy, art and creation, Christianity and globalisation He has written over a hundred books since 1973, including three books on the political idea of community (The Inoperative Community, 1983; The Confronted Community, 2001; The Disavowed Community, 2014) partly inspired by his work on Maurice Blanchot; a deeply sensitive memoir of his experience of surviving a heart transplant, (The Intruder, 2000); a contribution to the ongoing debate on Martin Heidegger’s anti-Semitism (The Banality of Heidegger, 2015); and reflections on the political transformations of our time in the aftermath of the Paris attacks of November 2015 (Que Faire?, 2016) He has also written extensively with his closest friend and intellectual soulmate, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe   On a chilly morning in January, we found ourselves in a Haussmanian building in the working-class area of Stalingrad in Paris’s 19th arrondissement – recently made famous by the evacuation of refugees that had settled there – in the apartment where a friend of Nancy, a silver-haired Lacanian psychoanalyst, hosted the interview As the conversation

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September 2015

Izabella Scott

Contributor

September 2015

IZABELLA SCOTT is an editor at The White Review.

Book Review

August 2019

Jordy Rosenberg’s ‘Confessions of the Fox’

Izabella Scott

Book Review

August 2019

It’s hot as fuck, said the friend who handed me Confessions of the Fox, a faux-memoir set in eighteenth-century...

Navine G. Khan-Dossos, Echo Chamber

Art Review

November 2017

Izabella Scott

Art Review

November 2017

A lattice of diamonds and crosses, painted onto a 21-metre long wall at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, scatters my gaze. Artist Navine G....
Hot Rocks

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November 2016

Izabella Scott

feature

November 2016

‘We have received around 150 of them,’ Massimo Osanna tells me, as we peer into four small crates stuffed full of dusty freezer bags....
False shadows

Art

August 2016

Izabella Scott

Art

August 2016

The ‘beautiful disorder’ of the Forbidden City and the Yuanmingyuan (Garden of Perfection and Light) was first noted by the Jesuit painter Jean Denis...

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poetry

May 2014

Two Poems from Grun-tu-molani

Vidyan Ravinthiran

poetry

May 2014

The Sky there was a uniform inactive grey, except when stared at through a chainlink fence; those who could...

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February 2014

Another Way of Thinking

Scott Esposito

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February 2014

I. There is no substitute for that moment when a book places into our mind thoughts we recognise as our...

Interview

Issue No. 8

Interview with Sophie Calle

Timothée Chaillou

Interview

Issue No. 8

Sophie Calle is France’s most celebrated conceptual artist. Her highly autobiographical, multi-disciplinary work combines the confessional and the cerebral,...

 

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