Peripathetic: Notes on (un)belonging
By (Author) Cher Tan
NewSouth Publishing
NewSouth Publishing
1st May 2024
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Philosophy
Society and culture: general
Memoirs
Paperback
240
Width 135mm, Height 210mm
There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and wed arrive at it if we kick around long enough.
Peripathetic is about shit jobs. About being who you are and who you arent online. About knowing a language four times. About living on the interstices. About thievery. About wanting. About the hyperreal. About weirdness.
Cher Tans essays are as non-linear as her life, as she travels across borders that are simultaneously tightening and blurring. In luminous and inventive prose, they look beyond the performance of everyday life, seeking answers that continually elude.
Paying homage to the many outsider artists, punks, drop-outs and rogue philosophers who came before, this book is about the resistance of orthodoxies even when it feels impossible.