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In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, "Why is there something, rather than nothing?" Whitehead asks, "How is it that there is always something new?" In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical "constructivism" embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.
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"Confronter les oeuvres d'Aragon et de Ponge revêt des enjeux littéraires, politiques, anthropologiques. Ces deux figures des lettres du XXe siècle, liées aux avant-gardes, de Dada et du surréalisme (Aragon) à Tel Quel (Ponge), ont partagé fugitivement, durant la période de la Résistance, l'engagement communiste. Leur divergence croissante dans l'après-guerre et l'inversion relative du prestige symbolique accordé à chacun constituent un objet d'investigation dont l'intérêt dépasse les cas respectifs. L'enquête et la réflexion proposées dans ce livre s'attachent à situer les pratiques esthétiques selon un parcours en six parties qui associe à l'histoire littéraire les outils de la théorie de la lecture. l'intertextualité, désormais classique, est ajoutée la notion d'arrière-texte (aux connotations aragoniennes), qui met au jour certains ressorts cachés de l'écriture-lecture. Il s'agit aussi, dans un esprit cette fois proche du lexique pongien, de prolonger une parole d'écrivain-lecteur en une contre-parole de lecteur-écrivant. S'immiscer dans ce dialogue à distance, ce n'est pas seulement essayer de comprendre ce qui différencie et relie en profondeur les oeuvres, c'est aussi, peut-être, par l'oscillation entre ces deux régimes de lecture littéraire, tenter d'élaborer, pour son propre compte, une pensée de l'humain."--Back cover.
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Negrete brings together women writers and artists known for their formal experimentation to show that "the aesthetic experiences afforded by their work are underwritten by a tenacious and uniquely feminine ethics of desire."-- taken from back cover.
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In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, "Why is there something, rather than nothing?" Whitehead asks, "How is it that there is always something new?" In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical "constructivism" embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.
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What is the relationship between "image" and human thinking? What is the role of the concept of "form" in human knowledge? Scholars from the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, the history of science, aesthetics, literature, anthropology, mathematics, and biology take historical and theoretical approaches to investigate the connection between the activity of thinking and concepts of image and form.
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