ABSTRACT
In part the writers in this book give testimonies of the way they see the world in this difficult moment in time. We write attempting to give a voice to something that we sense might be important. We speak even though we know we are doomed to fail – as we know language does fail when we approach things to do with the Body, the Real as Lacan would have it. And yet the process of trying is a defiant move – a move against the fear and darkness of the world around us, in which innocent people are killed by terrorists only for governments to decide to kill more
innocent people as a way forward. We give testimony and try and make sense of what we might know.
