Aug 20, 2021
On the verge of words, the animal emits instead a stream of cries, affects, spirits, and magnetic fluids. What flows from the animal touches language without entering it, dissolving memory, like the unconscious, into a timeless present. The animal is magnetic because it draws the world-building subject toward an impossible convergence with the limits of the world, toward a metaphysics of metaphor.
Akira Mizuta Lippit - "Magnetic Animal: Derrida, Wildlife, and Animetaphor", 1998