The Mourn
Lumpen Orientalism gathers the fragments of a lost civilization, the decaying parts of a breathing animal _ the Middle East. Named after a term suggested by China Miéville, Lumpen Orientalism captures an anomalous fascination with the Middle East and Asia in a similar way to the mongrel visions of Gilles Deleuze, H. P. Lovecraft, Gaëtan Clérambault and William Beckford in order to tackle this enigmatic monstrosity.
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"Mourning withdraws from everything into memory of one thing only. The remembrance of mourning remains near to what has been taken from it and seems to be distant. Mourning is not merely turned back by a current to something that was lost. It lets what is absent come again and again" (Heidegger)
"Knowledge of death cannot do without a subterfuge: spectacle" (Bataille)
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