Towards an Embodied Poetics of Failure

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Notes

¹ I introduce the notion of a restrictive representational memory regime in a response to Radstone and Hodgkin's definition of ‘memory regime’ as ‘kinds of knowledge and power that are carried, in specific times and places, by particular discourses of memory’ (2). See also Le Roy, Stalpaert and Verdoodt 2010.

² Jane Bennett's notion of distributive agency is indebted to the French philosopher Bruno Latour and his Actor–Network Theory (ANT) as outlined in, among others, Reassembling the Social (2005). Bennett identifies ‘the human-nonhuman assemblage as a locus of agency’ (2010: 37).

³ According to philosopher Bruno Latour, all actants in a network have at their disposal the same possibility of agency, subsequently subverting the strict division between active and passive, performer and spectator, subject and object (see also Stalpaert 2014).