Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You
<p>In 2003, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick published the essay “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading. Or, You’re So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is About You” as part of the anthology <em>Touching Feeling. Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity</em>. In it, Sedgwick asks why Western critique operates mostly with paranoid readings, readings that aim to expose hidden violent structures, and suggests a “reparative” approach that focusses not only on what is being written, or said, or done but how and to what end. The text was a starting point for Geraldine Tedder’s essay “You Are Probably Completely Oblivious That This Text Actually Is About You” and will kick off a series of texts in line with Sedgwick’s thinking as to what it might or might not mean to read and write “reparatively.”</p>
Authors: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Series Editor: Lucie Kolb, Pablo Müller, Barbara Preisig, Judith Welter
Art Director: Sabo Day
Code: FLX Labs
Part of: Brand-New-Life Magazine
ISBN: 22979220
ISSN: 2297-9220