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What kind of challenge does sexual and racial difference pose for
postmodern ethics? What is the relation between ethical obligation
and feminist interpretations of embodiment, passion, and eros? How
can we negotiate between ethical responsibility for the Other and
democratic struggles against domination, injustice, and inequality,
on the one hand, and internal conflicts within the subject, on the
other? What are the implications of postmodern ethics for the
agonistic politics of radical democracy?
We cannot address such questions, Ziarek argues, without putting
into dialogue discourses that have hitherto been segregated:
postmodern ethics, feminism, race theory, and the idea of radical
democracy. Addressing a constellation of diverse
thinkers--including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams,
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Julia
Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray--the author proposes a new conception
of ethics, an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation
between freedom and obligation in a double context of embodiment
and antagonism.
As the unavoidable yet productive dissonance among antagonism,
freedom, and obligation suggests, the ethics of dissensus seeks not
to transcend politics but to articulate the difficult role of
responsibility and freedom in democratic struggles against racist
and sexist oppression. Opposing the conservative political work of
privatized moral discourse that reduces social antagonism to the
apolitical experience of good and evil, the ethics of dissensus
calls into question not only the depoliticized subject of ethics
but also the disembodied notions of citizenship, rights, and
democratic community.
Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of
scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a
comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research
called "intermedialities." The concept of intermedialities stresses
the necessity of situating philosophical and political debates on
social relations in the divergent contexts of media theories,
avant-garde artistic practices, continental philosophy, feminism,
and political theory. The "intermedial" approach to social
relations does not focus on the shared identity but instead on the
epistemological, ethical, and political status of inter
(being-in-between). At stake here are the political analyses of new
modes of being in common that transcend national boundaries, the
critique of the new forms of domination that accompany them, and
the search for new emancipatory possibilities. Opening a new
approach to social relations, intermedialities investigates not
only engagements between already constituted positions but even
more the interval, antagonism, and differences that form and
decenter these positions. Consequently, in opposition to the
resurgence of cultural and ethnic particularisms and to the
leveling of difference produced by globalization, the political and
ethical analysis of the "in-between" enables a conception of
community based on difference, exposure, and interaction with
others rather than on an identification with a shared identity.
Investigations of "in-betweenness," both as medium specific and
between heterogeneous "sites" of inquiry, range here from
philosophical conceptuality to artistic practices, from the
political circulation of money and power to the operation of new
technologies. They inevitably invoke the crucial role of embodiment
in creative thought and collective acting. As a mediating instance
between the psyche and society, matter and spirit, nature and
culture, and biology and technology, the body is another interval
forming and informed by socio-linguistic relations. As these com
Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of
scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a
comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research
called 'intermedialities.' The concept of intermedialities stresses
the necessity of situating philosophical and political debates on
social relations in the divergent contexts of media theories,
avant-garde artistic practices, continental philosophy, feminism,
and political theory. The 'intermedial' approach to social
relations does not focus on the shared identity but instead on the
epistemological, ethical, and political status of inter
(being-in-between). At stake here are the political analyses of new
modes of being in common that transcend national boundaries, the
critique of the new forms of domination that accompany them, and
the search for new emancipatory possibilities. Opening a new
approach to social relations, intermedialities investigates not
only engagements between already constituted positions but even
more the interval, antagonism, and differences that form and
decenter these positions. Consequently, in opposition to the
resurgence of cultural and ethnic particularisms and to the
leveling of difference produced by globalization, the political and
ethical analysis of the 'in-between' enables a conception of
community based on difference, exposure, and interaction with
others rather than on an identification with a shared identity.
Investigations of 'in-betweenness,' both as medium specific and
between heterogeneous 'sites' of inquiry, range here from
philosophical conceptuality to artistic practices, from the
political circulation of money and power to the operation of new
technologies. They inevitably invoke the crucial role of embodiment
in creative thought and collective acting. As a mediating instance
between the psyche and society, matter and spirit, nature and
culture, and biology and technology, the body is another interval
forming and informed by socio-linguistic relations. As these
complex intersections between media, materiality, art, and the
philosophy and politics of the in-between suggest, the project of
intermedialities provides new ways of rethinking relations among
arts, politics, and science.
What kind of challenge does sexual and racial difference pose for
postmodern ethics? What is the relation between ethical obligation
and feminist interpretations of embodiment, passion, and eros? How
can we negotiate between ethical responsibility for the Other and
democratic struggles against domination, injustice, and inequality,
on the one hand, and internal conflicts within the subject, on the
other? What are the implications of postmodern ethics for the
agonistic politics of radical democracy?
We cannot address such questions, Ziarek argues, without putting
into dialogue discourses that have hitherto been segregated:
postmodern ethics, feminism, race theory, and the idea of radical
democracy. Addressing a constellation of diverse
thinkers--including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams,
Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Julia
Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray--the author proposes a new conception
of ethics, an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation
between freedom and obligation in a double context of embodiment
and antagonism.
As the unavoidable yet productive dissonance among antagonism,
freedom, and obligation suggests, the ethics of dissensus seeks not
to transcend politics but to articulate the difficult role of
responsibility and freedom in democratic struggles against racist
and sexist oppression. Opposing the conservative political work of
privatized moral discourse that reduces social antagonism to the
apolitical experience of good and evil, the ethics of dissensus
calls into question not only the depoliticized subject of ethics
but also the disembodied notions of citizenship, rights, and
democratic community.
Rosalyn Diprose and Ewa Ziarek provide a reconfiguration of Hannah
Arendt's philosophy of natality from the perspective of
biopolitical and feminist theory. They show us that Arendt provides
new ways of contesting biopolitical threats to human plurality and
the threat of biopolitics - along with sexism, racism and political
theology - to women's reproductive agency. They extend Arendt's
account of collective political action to include political
hospitality, responsibility and story-telling as ways of countering
the harms of biopower. Diprose and Ziarek give us an insightful
account of the political ontology of Hannah Arendt and form new
dialogues between her and major 20th- and 21st-century thinkers
including Foucault, Agamben, Nancy, Kristeva, Esposito, Derrida,
Levinas and Cavarero.
A Future for the Humanities: Praxis, Heteronomy, Invention brings
together an international roster of renowned scholars from
disciplines such as philosophy, political theory, intellectual
history, and literary studies to address the pressing question of
the future of the humanities. Whereas many recent works have
addressed this question in primarily pragmatic terms, this book
seeks to examine its conceptual foundations. What notions of
futurity, of the human, and of finitude underlie recurring
anxieties about the humanities' future in our current geopolitical
situation? How can we think about the unpredictable and unthought
dimensions of praxis implicit in the very notion of futurity?
Although hailing from disparate disciplines and taking different
angles on these questions, the essays we have assembled argue
collectively that the uncertainty of the future represents both an
opportunity for critical engagement and the very matrix for
invention. Such a broadly conceived notion of invention, or
cultural poiesis, questions the key assumptions and tasks of a
whole range of practices in the humanities, beginning with
critique, artistic practices, and intellectual inquiry, and ending
with technology, emancipatory politics, and ethics. The essays in
this volume discuss a wide range of key figures (e.g., Deleuze,
Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray), problems (e.g.,
becoming; kinship and the foreign; "disposable populations" within
a global political economy; queerness and the death drive; the
parapoetic; electronic textuality; invention and accountability;
political and social reform in Latin America), disciplines and
methodologies (philosophy; art and art history; visuality;
politicaltheory; criticism and critique; psychoanalysis; gender
analysis; architecture; literature; art). This volume should be
required reading for all who feel a deep commitment to the
humanities, its practices, and its future. It will prove
indispensable to a wide range of scholars, practitioners, and
disciplines: philosophy, history, literature, political science,
visual studies, art history, gender studies, film studies,
psychoanalysis, poetics, architecture, technology studies, and art.
A Future for the Humanities: Praxis, Heteronomy, Invention brings
together an international roster of renowned scholars from
disciplines such as philosophy, political theory, intellectual
history, and literary studies to address the pressing question of
the future of the humanities. Whereas many recent works have
addressed this question in primarily pragmatic terms, this book
seeks to examine its conceptual foundations. What notions of
futurity, of the human, and of finitude underlie recurring
anxieties about the humanities' future in our current geopolitical
situation? How can we think about the unpredictable and unthought
dimensions of praxis implicit in the very notion of futurity?
Although hailing from disparate disciplines and taking different
angles on these questions, the essays we have assembled argue
collectively that the uncertainty of the future represents both an
opportunity for critical engagement and the very matrix for
invention. Such a broadly conceived notion of invention, or
cultural poiesis, questions the key assumptions and tasks of a
whole range of practices in the humanities, beginning with
critique, artistic practices, and intellectual inquiry, and ending
with technology, emancipatory politics, and ethics. The essays in
this volume discuss a wide range of key figures (e.g., Deleuze,
Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray), problems (e.g.,
becoming; kinship and the foreign; "disposable populations" within
a global political economy; queerness and the death drive; the
parapoetic; electronic textuality; invention and accountability;
political and social reform in Latin America), disciplines and
methodologies (philosophy; art and art history; visuality;
politicaltheory; criticism and critique; psychoanalysis; gender
analysis; architecture; literature; art). This volume should be
required reading for all who feel a deep commitment to the
humanities, its practices, and its future. It will prove
indispensable to a wide range of scholars, practitioners, and
disciplines: philosophy, history, literature, political science,
visual studies, art history, gender studies, film studies,
psychoanalysis, poetics, architecture, technology studies, and art.
These original essays explore how the concept of revolution
permeates and unifies Julia Kristeva's body of work by tracing its
trajectory from her early engagement with the Tel Quel group,
through her preoccupation in the 1980s with abjection, melancholia,
and love, to her latest work. Some of the leading voices in
Kristeva scholarship examine her reevaluation of the concept of
revolt in the context of the changing cultural and political
conditions in the West; the questions of the stranger, race, and
nation; her reflections on narrative, public spaces, and
collectivity in the context of her engagement with Hannah Arendt's
work; her development and refinement of the notions of abjection,
melancholia, and narcissism in her ongoing interrogation of
aesthetics; as well as her contribution to film theory. Focused
primarily on Kristeva's newest work--much of it only recently
translated into English--this book breaks new ground in Kristeva
scholarship.
A variety of recent theoretical frameworks from poststructuralism
to queer theory and postcolonialism are used to examine
Gombrowicz's texts in the context of the current reappraisals of
the mixed legacies of modernism. Essays discuss Gombrowicz's
aesthetics and his philosophical interests; his exil
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