... we inhabit. Poetry is anarchic in the orig- inal sense of the word. In the Republic Plato formalized this link between poetry and anarchy (and, in the bargain, instituted the dis- cipline of ... the materiality of art (namely that the artwork[is] an event of darkening of being .. .in the general econ- omy of being, art is the falling movement on the hither side of time, into fate’ ( cp ... experi- encing the limits of the human, which for Levinas means the limits of the ethical. a poetics of proximity In the experience of the workof art, Levinas says, we enter into ‘a mode of being to...