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Quantum Anthropologies - Life at Large (Paperback)
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Quantum Anthropologies - Life at Large (Paperback)
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In "Quantum Anthropologies," the renowned feminist theorist Vicki
Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of
deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction's
implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of
textuality and representation are specific to the domain of
culture. Revisiting Derrida's claim that there is "no outside of
text," Kirby argues that theories of cultural construction
developed since the linguistic turn have inadvertently reproduced
the very binaries they intended to question, such as those between
nature and culture, matter and ideation, and fact and value.
Through new readings of Derrida, Husserl, Saussure, Butler,
Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty, Kirby exposes the limitations of
theories that regard culture as a second-order system that cannot
access--much less be--nature, body, and materiality. She suggests
ways of reconceiving language and culture to enable a more
materially implicated outcome, one that keeps alive the more
counterintuitive and challenging aspects of poststructural
criticism. By demonstrating how fields, including cybernetics,
biology, forensics, mathematics, and physics, can be conceptualized
in deconstructive terms, Kirby fundamentally rethinks
deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment,
materialism, and science.
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