Playing in the margins : Iain Sinclair's poetics of refusal

Kirsten Seale

Playing in the margins : Iain Sinclair's poetics of refusal

Kirsten Seale

Western Sydney University

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Abstract

In a 1991 essay entitled “Shamanism of Intent: A Retrospective Manifesto,” Iain Sinclair writes: “Any proposition asserted with enough force could ghost as the truth.” Sinclair’s aphorism, and the “manifesto” in which it appears, can be read as a response to the politics of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain, and, more specifically, as a retort to her free-market economic and social policies, characterised as they were by her definitive declaration: “there is no alternative.”

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Politics and Aesthetics of Refusal
Editors	Caroline Hamilton, Michelle Kelly, Elaine Minor, Will Noonan
Place of Publication	U.K.
Publisher	Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Pages	20-33
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9781847182449
Publication status	Published - 2007

Keywords

Sinclair, Iain, 1943
refusal
neoliberalism

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