Résumé :
Chapter 6 moves from the close-up, embodied perspective provided in ‘Notes’ to consider the fool figure's long and troubling history. It argues that despite—or rather because of—the fool's peculiar (both inside and out) relation to grand narratives and hierarchical structures and abuses of power, it has the potential to effectively gesture past those structures. A gesture cannot, in itself, abolish, remedy, or heal, but it can draw attention to the narrative frameworks and systemic violences we, in taking them for granted, are also (like the fool) inevitably a part.

Localisation : Bibliothèque