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Rachel Aumiller
Walking Away, Walking in Circles, Writing Lists
Aumiller writes lists to externalize what overwhelms her. To be in control. To master and move on. Yet, her lists circle back to her. The process of writing the same list every day or the same act of writing the list is a looping. She returns to herself, to the parts she can remember and to the parts she can’t remember, but also can’t leave behind.
Keywords: To-do lists; Repetition; Groundhog Day; Eternal return; Nietzsche, Friedrich; Memory; Memorial
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Walking Away, Walking in Circles, Writing Lists
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Rachel Aumiller
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| Description |
Aumiller writes lists to externalize what overwhelms her. To be in control. To master and move on. Yet, her lists circle back to her. The process of writing the same list every day or the same act of writing the list is a looping. She returns to herself, to the parts she can remember and to the parts she can’t remember, but also can’t leave behind.
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Berlin
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ICI Berlin Press
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| Date |
11 October 2022
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| Subject |
To-do lists
Repetition
Groundhog Day
Eternal return
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Memory
Memorial
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| Rights |
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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en-GB
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281
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283
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| Source |
The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 281–83
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References
- Nietzsche, Friedrich, Also sprach Zarathustra, ed. by Volker Gerhardt (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2012) <https://doi.org/10.1524/9783050057385>
Cite as:
Rachel Aumiller, ‘Walking Away, Walking in Circles, Writing Lists’, in The Case for Reduction, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Jakob Schillinger, Cultural Inquiry, 25 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2022), pp. 281-83 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-25_18>