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Editorial Necsus

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In the second part of the much celebrated recent novel 2666 (Roberto Bolaño, 2004), a Chilean philosopher with an Italian surname teaching in a Northern Mexico university unexpectedly finds a book in his library: Testamento geométrico, a treatise on geometry written by a poet named Rafael Dieste. Amalfitano (the name of the philosopher) cannot recall having bought or borrowed the mysterious book. This presence deeply unsettles him, and he finds relief through a rather Duchampian gesture: he hangs the volume on a line in his backyard, exposing the treatise and its linear speculation to the action of the weather.


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NECSUS Editorial Board: Editorial Necsus. In: NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies, Jg. 1 (2012), Nr. 2, S. 1-3. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15046.
@ARTICLE{NECSUS Editorial Board: Editorial Necsus2012,
 author = {NECSUS Editorial Board},
 title = {Editorial Necsus},
 year = 2012,
 doi = "\url{http://dx.doi.org/10.25969/mediarep/15046}",
 volume = 1,
 address = {Amsterdam},
 journal = {NECSUS. European Journal of Media Studies},
 number = 2,
 pages = {1--3},
}
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