Miguel Angel Lopez Paez
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Jonathan Basile deposited The New Novelty: Corralation as Quarantine in Speculative Realism and New Materialism in the group
Science Studies and the History of Science on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe foundational gesture of New Materialism and Speculative Realism dismisses vast swaths of past philosophy and theory in order to signify their own avant-garde status. The violence of this gesture, which tries to corral difference within past texts in order to feign its own purity, can be considered as a theoretical quarantine. Examples of…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited The New Novelty: Corralation as Quarantine in Speculative Realism and New Materialism in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe foundational gesture of New Materialism and Speculative Realism dismisses vast swaths of past philosophy and theory in order to signify their own avant-garde status. The violence of this gesture, which tries to corral difference within past texts in order to feign its own purity, can be considered as a theoretical quarantine. Examples of…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited The New Novelty: Corralation as Quarantine in Speculative Realism and New Materialism in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months agoThe foundational gesture of New Materialism and Speculative Realism dismisses vast swaths of past philosophy and theory in order to signify their own avant-garde status. The violence of this gesture, which tries to corral difference within past texts in order to feign its own purity, can be considered as a theoretical quarantine. Examples of…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited The New Novelty: Corralation as Quarantine in Speculative Realism and New Materialism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 2 months ago
The foundational gesture of New Materialism and Speculative Realism dismisses vast swaths of past philosophy and theory in order to signify their own avant-garde status. The violence of this gesture, which tries to corral difference within past texts in order to feign its own purity, can be considered as a theoretical quarantine. Examples of…[Read more]
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Annette Windhorn's profile was updated on UP Commons 7 years, 6 months ago
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Jonathan Basile deposited Misreading Generalised Writing: From Foucault to Speculative Realism and New Materialism in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months agoMisreadings of Derrida’s Of Grammatology were prevalent from the time of its debut (Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari), up to the present day (Speculative Realism and New Materialism). For fifty years, Derrida’s generalised textuality has been misread as though he meant there was nothing outside text in the traditional sense. This misreading always…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile deposited Misreading Generalised Writing: From Foucault to Speculative Realism and New Materialism on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
Misreadings of Derrida’s Of Grammatology were prevalent from the time of its debut (Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari), up to the present day (Speculative Realism and New Materialism). For fifty years, Derrida’s generalised textuality has been misread as though he meant there was nothing outside text in the traditional sense. This misreading always…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 7 months ago
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Jonathan Basile deposited Tar for Mortar: “The Library of Babel” and the Dream of Totality on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago
Tar for Mortar offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature’s greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story “The Library of Babel” is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is pl…[Read more]
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Jonathan Basile's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 10 months ago