{"product_id":"9789811105326","title":"in fidelity","description":"\u003cp\u003e« … It has taken me years to admit — perhaps only to myself — that I don’t care about writing something important, something significant. That my only hope, wish — dream even — is to write something beautiful … » (139) \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book attempts to open the dossier of fidelity; and, in particular, attend to the question of the relationship between fidelity and its object, to the question of: \u003cem\u003emust there be an object to fidelity?\u003c\/em\u003e For, if one is faithful to something or someone, is one responding to the \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e, the characteristics of the thing, the person; or the \u003cem\u003ewho\u003c\/em\u003e, the person, thing, as such? Which is not to say that \u003cem\u003ewhat\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ewho \u003c\/em\u003eare necessarily distinguishable, separable, to begin with. However, if we open the possibility that the \u003cem\u003ewho\u003c\/em\u003e is always already beyond us — outside of knowability, if even only slightly — this suggests that it is the spectre, the potential unknowability, that haunts all relationality. Thus, even if there is an object to one’s fidelity — for, without which one cannot even begin to speak of fidelity, speak of relationality — this might well be an objectless object or, at least, an object that remains veiled from us. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn order to explore this relationship — in which one cannot even be sure if there is a relationality; for, without the object, the nature, if one can call it that, of the relation is speculative — the text takes the form of an \u003cem\u003eexploratory fiction\u003c\/em\u003e. Where it attempts to bear witness to the possibility of fidelity — keeping in mind that fiction is both the limit to, and condition of, testimony — whilst quite possibly only testifying to the possibility of being able to testify. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing more. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Delere Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47065508249840,"sku":"9789811105326","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789811105326_p0.jpg?v=1763690521","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789811105326","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}