Katerina Kolozova: Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy (2014)
Filed under book | Tags: · deconstruction, feminism, gender, identity, immanence, language, philosophy, poststructuralism, queer theory, race, subject, subjectivity, transcendence
“Following François Laruelle’s nonstandard philosophy and the work of Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell, Luce Irigaray, and Rosi Braidotti, Katerina Kolozova reclaims the relevance of categories traditionally rendered “unthinkable” by postmodern feminist philosophies, such as “the real,” “the one,” “the limit,” and “finality,” thus critically repositioning poststructuralist feminist philosophy and gender/queer studies.
Poststructuralist (feminist) theory sees the subject as a purely linguistic category, as always already multiple, as always already nonfixed and fluctuating, as limitless discursivity, and as constitutively detached from the instance of the real. This reconceptualization is based on the exclusion of and dichotomous opposition to notions of the real, the one (unity and continuity), and the stable. The non-philosophical reading of postructuralist philosophy engenders new forms of universalisms for global debate and action, expressed in a language the world can understand. It also liberates theory from ideological paralysis, recasting the real as an immediately experienced human condition determined by gender, race, and social and economic circumstance.”
Foreword by François Laruelle
Publisher Columbia University Press, 2014
Insurrections series
ISBN 0231166109, 9780231166102
xvi+184 pages
Review: Maxwell Kennel (Parrhesia, 2015).
Comment (0)Nicholas Gaskill, A. J. Nocek (eds.): The Lure of Whitehead (2014)
Filed under book | Tags: · abstraction, bifurcation, consciousness, constructivism, creativity, difference, ecology, feeling, god, immanence, life, mereotopology, metaphysics, nature, ontology, perception, philosophy, posthuman, science, society, subject, temporality, time, vitalism
“Once largely ignored, the speculative philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead has assumed a new prominence in contemporary theory across the humanities and social sciences. Philosophers and artists, literary critics and social theorists, anthropologists and computer scientists have embraced Whitehead’s thought, extending it through inquiries into the nature of life, the problem of consciousness, and the ontology of objects, as well as into experiments in education and digital media.
The Lure of Whitehead offers readers not only a comprehensive introduction to Whitehead’s philosophy but also a demonstration of how his work advances our emerging understanding of life in the posthuman epoch.”
Contributors: Jeffrey A. Bell, Nathan Brown, Peter Canning, Didier Debaise, Roland Faber, Michael Halewood, Graham Harman, Bruno Latour, Erin Manning, Steven Meyer, Luciana Parisi, Keith Robinson, Isabelle Stengers, James Williams.
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2014
ISBN 9780816679959
ix+427 pages
Review: Ronny Desmet (Constructivist Foundations, 2015).
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Comment (0)Brian Massumi (ed.): A Shock to Thought: Expression After Deleuze and Guattari (2002)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, body without organs, deterritorialization, immanence, philosophy, semiotics
A Shock to Thought brings together essays that explore Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy of expression in a number of contemporary contexts. It will be of interest to all those in philosophy, cultural studies and art theory. The volume also contains an interview with Guattari which clearly restates the ‘aesthetic paradigm’ that organizes both his and Deleuze’s work.
With contributions by Melissa McMahon, Steven Shaviro, Stephen Zagala, Gary Genosko, Alan Bourassa, Michael Hardt, Catherine Dale, Paul Brains, Jose Gil, Mani Haghighi, Thomas Lamarre, Aden Evens, Andrew Murphie, Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger
Publisher Routledge, 2002
ISBN 041523803X, 9780415238038
256 pages