Christina Tudor-Sideri

writer, translator, and researcher whose work unfolds at the crossroads of literature, philosophy, and critical theory (currently writing about relics and time)

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

An Absence of Sea is officially out today.

https://t.co/lUdQbiq37u

You can find an excerpt here: https://t.co/GBLFlFOPd7

My gratitude to @AnsgarAllen, @Greg_Gerke, and to all of you.

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

@__ffree “I wanted to stay behind in September
on the desert, this faded beach.
I wanted my meals to be
the ashes of my false cranes.
To hold the heavy wind in my hair
like water asleep in fishing nets.”

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

a resting place for the eternal

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

“this cold of the glass”

[Scott Barley @ScottBarleyFilm]

It was a joy to work on this film as guest director, making dream sequences, drone soundscapes among other sound design earlier this year.

Five Years, Four Months premieres next month in @KVIFF official competition—the first Colombian film to ever do so.

[Erratum @press_erratum]

the third newsletter of the International Theory-Fiction Consortium, is now up
https://t.co/tdPUJFy9Fo

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

@aliner @McNallyEditions “It is still up to us to exhaust language” :)

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

@weiss_hadas @John_Attridge I'm going to need to borrow this myself so I can justify applying for a PhD this summer

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

I will die before you; you will die before me—another way of saying that love reaches the other only through a distance it cannot abolish.

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

We die one before the other—there can be no other way. “One of the two will see the other die.” Celan died before Ingeborg, never knowing the fire that awaited her. Kafka died before Milena. Anne died before Thomas—leaving him in the impossibility of sharing death with the other.

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

The other withdraws most completely in death, yes, but the withdrawal was already there in every encounter. Death is just the most visible figure of the distance that had always sustained the relation; the name we give to when the other’s irreducible distance becomes undeniable.

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

@katherineveritt 🖤

[Edvard Munch @artistmunch]

Two People. The Lonely Ones (To mennesker. De ensomme), 1899/1917 #artbots #munch

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

It is not just that once we know someone, we can never unknow them; it is that once they enter our lives, we can never again be untouched by the possibility of their death, nor they by the possibility of ours.

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

And so, perhaps, the death of the other does not open an abyss between us; it illuminates the abyss that had accompanied us from the beginning, hidden within every gesture of intimacy.

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

@drnelk If only more abyss were all it took

[Christina Tudor-Sideri @dreamsofbeing_]

“He knew the world in a deep and extraordinary manner. He was himself a deep and extraordinary world.”

An Obituary for Franz Kafka by Milena Jesenská; tr. George Gibian