Nilling. Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretiun, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias

Nilling is a sequence of 6 loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading. Lisa Robertson applies an acute eye to the subject of reading and writing-two elemental forces that, she suggests, cannot be separated. For Robertson, a book is an intimacy, and with keen and insightful language, Nilling's essays builds into a lively yet close conversation with Robertson's "masters": past writers, philosophers, and idealists who have guided her reading (and writing) practice to this point.
If "a reader is a beginner, " then even regular readers of Robertson's kind of deep thinking will delight in the infinite folding together of concepts-the codex, pornography, melancholy, cities-that on their own may seem banal, but in their twisting intertextuality, make for a scintillating study of reading as a deep engagement.