Challenging our assumptions about photographic agency and the interplay between art and life
An effort to merge language and formlessness in a yearn for a cyclic work
then I challenge them to finish this book
sow the seeds of their inevitable destruction
Interweaving personal reminiscence with cogent analysis
Clare Carlisle: Transcendence for Beginners pulitzer Challenging our assumptions about photographicFitzcarraldo Editions, 2025, softcover, 184 pages, 19 x 13 cm Transcendence for Beginners examines life writing and philosophy across certain European and Indian traditions, exploring questions of childhood and mortality, art and religion, beauty and loss. Informed by her experience as a biographer of Sren Kierkegaard and George Eliot as well as her own life, Clare Carlisle asks what one human existence can reveal, and how writing can transmit its