Textures of mourning: calligraphy, mortality, and the tale of Genji scrolls

Contents

Rethinking mortality : notes toward an apprehensive method -- Dying to move : calligraphic performance, gestural texture, and textual ethics -- Sickness, illegibility, and the spectacle of lethal exposure -- Melancholic pedagogies and the exquisite female corpse -- Tangled-script's legacies of attachment -- Technological decryption, recessionary rebirth, and the intensification of two-dimensional life -- Discontinuous textures and melancholic repressions of mortality.