DOUBLE ORDERING
Double Ordering is a compendium of reflections, considerations and thoughts, collected and borrowed from philosophical works. Although these excerpts are part of a much larger whole, to me they feel like opaque poetry, so, I took a risk and promised myself to give them a double life by writing this book. I began to re-interpret them with the familiarity of an apprentice, where fascination, admiration, and astonishment were all bound up together, alongside all sorts of troubling questions, in particular regarding the form that they might take. The book converses with explicit sources that populates its pages and hops from character to place in the space of a few sentences. In light of this, together with the reader, I have played at colouring in the strata of an archive.
2021
English
90 Pages
Hardcover
ISBN 978-0-9955017-5-1
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“Double Ordering is a a biblio-mnemonic instrument made of Patracchini’s love of books. Constructed by carefully recombining literary and philosophical texts, Double Order develops as an exquisite, meta-conceptual map of the most extraordinary poetic discoveries.”
— German Sierra
“As if woven from the memory of the world, Double Ordering revives the much-needed correspondence between philosophical thought and the turmoil of the search, revealing that even when anchored in the depths of life, consciousness preserves its opening toward the eternal. “
— Christina Tudor-sideri
“ Double Ordering takes philosophical texts in stasis and lyrically activates them into movement. In roiling modulations of changing fonts, it explores the environments of ideas rather than the ideas themselves, their distant shadows and the glimmers of misapprehension they contain. This is a book about what is found in thoughts almost lost.”
— Matthew Turner
