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Há uns dias falávamos das digressões dos processos criativos, dos métodos que cada um vai criando, das formas que encontramos para sobreviver a estas mesmas aventuras. Nesse mesmo dia, e num momento de desespero não só consequência do processo criativo em si, mas também devido à necessidade de criar - rapidamente - cruzei-me com as palavras certas no momento exacto.
E assim, partilho aqui as palavras do Brian Massumi - em que tanto me revejo. E o seu instrumento de sobrevivência é a exemplificação - mas que mesmo enquanto instrumento, não põe de lado um perigo iminente de falhanço completo.
As a writing practice, exemplification activates detail. The sucess of the example hinges on the details. Every little one matters. At each new detail, the example runs the risk of falling apart, of its unity of self-relation becoming a jumble. Every detail is essential to the case. This means that the details making up the example partake of its singularity. Each detail is like another example embedded in it. A microexample. (…) Every example harbors terrible powers of deviation and digression.
(…) The writing tries not only to accept the risk of sprouting deviant, but also to invite it. Take joy in your digressions. Because that is where the unexpected arises. That is the experimental aspect. If you know where you will end up when you begin, nothing has happened in the meantime. You have to be willing to surprise yourself writing things you didn’t think you thought. (…) You have to let yourself get so caught up in the flow of your writing that it ceases at moments to be recognizable to you as your own. This means you have to be prepared for failure.
In Brian Massumi, Parables for the Virtual, p.19.