The Book of Distances

Author: Yaseen Alnaseer

"Alnaseer introduced philosophy into the text's core to produce dialectical visions that are not subject to definition but to dialogue. There is an ongoing dialogue that extends throughout his writings, transcending philosophy to thought, moving away from the abstract rational language of philosophy, and going beyond it to the language of spatial thought that lies in the connecting distance between reason and the imagination, moving from abstraction to sense and imagination. Philosophical reference for Alnaseer is nothing but an intellectual (imaginative) stimulant at the same time. This justifies his flowing poetic language, which embraces life with inexhaustible metaphorical leaps, driven by culture with its high and marginal patterns. He roams between its texts and margins, and delves into its hidden patterns where he finds what he seeks, grasping the dialectic of consciousness that moves on the surfaces of things and life, and establishes its near and far distances. For the master of places, man remains the spatial (existence) of distances, to the extent of his capacity for interpretation that expands or constricts cosmic distances. He re-produces life in a vast spatial (utopia), because the dialectic of distance is the field of modernity and post-modernity, and the dialogue of its patterns ranging between proximity and distance that embraces life with the language of places, and touches its body with metaphorical fingers fascinated by wonder. Dr. Bushra Mousa Saleh