Mehis Heinsaare mistahes-ruumid. Igatsus tõelise tundmuse välu järele ja selle kriitiline potentsiaal

The any-spaces-whatever of Mehis Heinsaar: A longing for the field of authentic feeling and its critical potential The works of Mehis Heinsaar have seldom been examined through the philosophical or theoretical frameworks prevalent in Western humanities and social sciences. One notable exception is the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, for whom Heinsaar seems to have a particular affinity: Deleuze’s ideas have been repeatedly employed in interpreting Heinsaar’s works, and the author himself has expressed interest in them. However, previous engagements with Deleuze’s philosophy have primarily drawn on the concepts of desiring-machines and rhizomes, as introduced in Kafka by Deleuze and Guattari – concepts that are well suited to analyzing only one aspect of Heinsaar’s writing. This article instead turns to the concept of the any-space-whatever, developed in Deleuze’s books Cinema 1 and Cinema 2, to extend the analysis of Heinsaar’s work beyond the point at which the desiring-machines described in Kafka break down and the individual’s sensorimotor schema begins to disintegrate. It emerges that any-spaces-whatever are strikingly prevalent in Heinsaar’s writing; indeed, one could argue that a significant portion of his literary output is oriented towards discovering and creating such spaces.