The invitation to read and talk about reading

Abstract

Reading is, exists, and happens in the form of a double invitation: an invitation to read and an invitation to talk about the reading; the idea of reading here referred does not depart from certain practices and theories of obligation or utilitarianism, being established as a way of invitation that comes from outside and at a distance from itself. There is a peculiar and also decisive way in this invitation: to be concise, it consists in calling attention to a world beyond ours and from each of us, savoring the language out of fast information and opinion mechanisms, withdrawing from itself in a type of exercise of otherness, focusing on times and territories distinct from the current ones and finding other ways of course and relation with the world and with life.