The Book of Distances - A Critical Approach to the Dialectic of Proximity and Distance

Al-Nasir introduced philosophy into the text's quarry to produce dialectical visions that are not subject to definition but to dialogue. There is a constant state of dialogue that extends throughout his writings beyond philosophy to thought, moving away from the language of abstract, rational philosophy and beyond it to the language of spatial thought, which lies in the space connecting reason and imagination, passing from abstraction to sensation and imagination. For Al-Nasir, the philosophical allusion is nothing more than a mental (imaginative) stimulus at the same time. This justifies his flowing poetic language, which embraces life with endless metaphorical leaps, guided by culture with its higher and marginal systems. He wanders between its texts and margins, reaching out to its hidden systems, where he finds his desire. He grasps the dialectic of consciousness that moves on the surfaces of things and life, establishing its near and distant distances. For the Master of Places, man remains the spatial "existence" of distances, to the extent of his capacity for interpretation that expands cosmic distances, or suffocates them. He reproduces life in a vast spatial "utopia," because the dialectic of distance is the field of modernity and what comes after it, and the dialogue of its systems, oscillating between nearness and distance, that embraces life in the language of places and touches its body with metaphorical fingers fascinated by amazement. Dr. Bushra Musa Saleh