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This volume of essays sets out to rethink our relation to textual
tradition against the background of several contemporary
developments, such as the emergence of digital culture, the
increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life,
the renegotiation of historical thinking and the precarious
position of the theoretical Humanities within academia. To this
end, the volume re-invests the concept of "layering," a concept
currently used in a wide range of fields, including metaphor
studies and linguistics, cybernetics, the social sciences, art and
architecture. Drawing on existing definitions of "layering", the
essays brought together in this book return to and re-appraise some
of the most crucial concerns in the post-1960s theoretical scene:
i.e., concerns over the strained interplay between writing and the
body; textuality and history; critique, differance and the
feminine; memory, trace and the immemorial. The aim of the diverse
- often polemical -- analyses carried out in this volume is to
reactivate the critical force of textual tradition today through a
renewed appreciation of its historical embeddedness, its libidinal
sources, as well as its complex economy of separation and contact,
diachronicity and synchronicity, (re)layering and de-layering. This
book will be of interest to scholars of Continental Philosophy,
Literary Theory, Gender Studies, Architecture, Film and Visual
Culture Studies, Psychoanalysis, Postmodernism, Post-colonial
Studies, Political and Social Theory.
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