Interstitial Thinking

This paper offers a response to Mieke Bal’s 2022-2023 College de France lectures, engaging in a dialogue with her concepts, in particular the concept of the inter-, which she also calls the ‘being-between’ ( être-entre) . My aim is to take Bal’s concepts in directions that reflect current and emerging topics of concern, notably the question of the orientations and potentials of art in a planetary age.