Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-4208478
J. Fernando
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Pub Date : 2017-06-27DOI: 10.1215/10418385-3930410
A. Barbour
It is perhaps a safe bet that at present liberalism and liberal are more often than not taken as pejoratives in academic discourse, particularly in theory cultures. As AndrewW. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University, Amanda Anderson is sharply aware that the affiliation liberal in literary studies and the humanities can today be as risky a critical investment as humanist: not least because of the perceived difficulty of conceiving a liberalism outside of neoliberalism, liberalism is often presumed to be a retrograde, theoretically naive, even “bankrupt mode of critical political thought” (bl, 45), thoroughly debunked by the last half century of deconstructive, poststructuralist, and radical critique. Bleak Liberalism turns the tables on such critical divestments from liberalism. For Anderson, the present bankruptcy of the concept of liberalism in academic discourse—as well as in intellectual and literary history—discloses a deficit not so much in liberal thinking as in radical critique. By radical critique Anderson refers less to an explicit political affiliation or
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Pub Date : 2017-06-27DOI: 10.1215/10418385-3822403
C. Dayan
This meditation marks a return to the South and its somewhat raucous racism, a hate so visceral that it can be known only through the tracks of the nonhuman: the possum that suffer in the destruction we have wrought against all species, vegetable and mammalian, everywhere.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-3822430
Christopher I Fynsk
Abstract:This essay addresses Jacques Rancière's attempt to critique notions of resistance invoked by Jean-François Lyotard and Gilles Deleuze. It focuses in particular on Rancière's efforts to contain Deleuze within a shallow account of the aesthetic tradition of the past two centuries and to disqualify a post-Heideggerian thought of difference in philosophy of art. It ultimately takes issue with Rancière's effort to police the function of modern art.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-3833800
B. Iqbal
In this interview, completed in November 2016, the anthropologist Talal Asad (b. 1933) reviews methodological and theoretical questions that continue to animate his work. The conversation is framed by his concept of tradition and touches on themes of temporality and sovereignty, failure and fragility, ethnographic conceits and forms of life.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-3822421
B. Stiegler, Danielle Ross
Abstract:The concept of entropy has been applied to life and, in Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen's bioeconomics of exosomatization, to human life. These accounts of "negentropy" must be reinterpreted in the age of the data economy, however, from a perspective that starts from the technological or exosomatic condition of all knowledge. This can be opened up from a reconsideration of Kant's account of intuition, understanding, and reason that must also be a critique of the absence of the technological in Kant's account of the schematism. Armed with this critique, we can understand the data economy as the use of powerful, probabilistic algorithms premised on reducing the "given" to calculable "data," a reduction in turn founded on and bringing about the reduction of knowledge to information. The entropic character of the data economy can then be conceived as the elimination of the incalculable and unexpected elements at the root of all knowledge. It is this elimination that suggests to Chris Anderson the idea of the end of theory; in other words, it is what prevents "bifurcations," that is, the prospect that new knowledge will open futures that would be not just negentropic but "neganthropological." In the Anthropocene, which is now leading to a state of absolute nonknowledge while producing massively entropic biospherical effects, it is crucial to transform data architectures and the faculties of knowledge in ways that not only undo the reduction of knowledge to information but do so starting from the neganthropological functions of knowledge, systems open to the improbable that would also amount to quasi-causal cosmologies.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-3822448
J. Ricco
Centered on The Andrew Project (2010–13) by artist Shaan Syed, this article is a theoretical meditation on the politics and ethics of the name, drawing, the portrait, anonymity, and the signature, as these bear on a shared sense of loss and its impossible commemoration. I invoke the figure of the urban stranger and passerby to argue for an aesthetics and ethics of social anonymity that does not rely on or demand identification and that thereby remains open to the risk, surprise, and pleasure of shared existence. In doing so, I theorize intimacy as that which remains unnameable in the "commerce" of our everyday lives.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-3822439
Kristina Mendicino
Walter Benjamin's distinction of truth from knowledge in his "Epistemo-Critical Prologue" marks a fundamental break with the truth claims of the empirical sciences, as well as those of any system of philosophy—phenomenological, neo-Kantian, or otherwise— that would be based on conscious cognition. Instead he renders the truth of philosophy as a question of presentation, beginning with one of the most famous propositions of his oeuvre: "It is proper to philosophical writing to stand, with every turn, before the question of presentation anew." Many commentators have cited this passage, yet few pursue the way Benjamin situates philosophical writing before the question of presentation, thereby suggesting that this question cannot be asked. In this essay, I elaborate the epistemological and ontological consequences of the displacements Benjamin stages between presentation and writing, through an attentive reading to the idioms of his own writerly presentation.
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Pub Date : 2017-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-3822394
J. Nancy, P. Lyons
If critique supposes the possession of a criterion that allows us to discriminate between true and false or between good and evil, it is no longer certain that our culture possesses such a criterion. As such, the idea of critique now finds itself in crisis.
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