Interlocutory Relations
An interview is always an affective encounter. The definition of “affect” includes, “assume” and “pretend”.
I don’t assume that the men and women who allowed me to record our conversations at the needle exchange and in the prison, offered natural, objective descriptions of an unambiguous reality. An interview is a performance of something true but not necessarily or always factual. It takes flight, and lands somewhere between emotional truth and constructed memory. It is always inflected by the context of the interlocution -- the potential for misrecognition. The interview is a ‘fiction’, as articulated by Rancière -- not the opposite of ‘real’ but a reframing of the ‘real’ – a way of “building new relationships between reality and appearance, the individual and the collective.”
I don’t assume that the men and women who allowed me to record our conversations at the needle exchange and in the prison, offered natural, objective descriptions of an unambiguous reality. An interview is a performance of something true but not necessarily or always factual. It takes flight, and lands somewhere between emotional truth and constructed memory. It is always inflected by the context of the interlocution -- the potential for misrecognition. The interview is a ‘fiction’, as articulated by Rancière -- not the opposite of ‘real’ but a reframing of the ‘real’ – a way of “building new relationships between reality and appearance, the individual and the collective.”
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