Cadiot’s politics

By doing away with transitory words in order to experiment with the force of the present in literature, by rewriting the text according to a critical project and reconnecting the multiplicity of verbal constructions that make the world hum, by blurring the very body of language: these are some of the ways in which Cadiot’s literature and politics hold together. Francois Cusset takes another look at Cadiot’s recently published Un nid pour quoi faire, which offers the ingredients for a reconfiguration of the sensible [1].

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Translation: Matthew Cunningham

[1] “Sensible” is used here, as elsewhere, in an archaic sense currently being resurrected in English translations of the work of Jacques Rancière, i.e. “that which is perceived by the senses”. See Jacques Rancière, The Politics Of Aesthetics: The Distribution of the Sensible, London, Continuum International Publishing Group, 2004. (Translator)