{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Ivan Callus, James Corby","doi":"10.3366/count.2019.0158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2019.0158","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41344739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.3366/count.2019.0157","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2019.0157","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42213107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Notes from Under the Seas: a novella","authors":"J. Kinsella","doi":"10.3366/count.2019.0159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2019.0159","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47369737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article offers a rhetorical analysis of Deleuze's concept of the past, understood not as a modification of the present but as a pre-predicative, non-subjective articulation of time. Focusing on the discussion of the three passive syntheses of time in Chapter 2 of Difference and Repetition, it traces the continuity between past, passivity and passion across Deleuze's body of work in an effort not only to remark on the conceptual resonances between them, but, more importantly, to examine the figural and formal choices that codify those resonances, and to some extent over-determine them – in particular, Deleuze's recourse to allegory and tragic form. Though the past is constituted as a primordial component of time, it already exceeds itself in the passivity of that constitutive moment, of that originary gesture by which it is first committed to historical experience. The process is rendered in dramatic terms: Habitus and Mnemosyne (Habit and Memory; Present and Past) are first pitted against each other – respectively, as the origin of time and its ground. They are then overthrown by an unnamed third element ‘which subordinates the other two to itself’ and opens the whole to infinity. The article thematises the significance of the past within this allegorical drama, develops the character, and draws out the temporal structures encoded in Deleuze's figurations.
{"title":"Past, Passivity, Passion: Deleuze's Allegorical Drama","authors":"R. Borg","doi":"10.3366/COUNT.2019.0151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/COUNT.2019.0151","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers a rhetorical analysis of Deleuze's concept of the past, understood not as a modification of the present but as a pre-predicative, non-subjective articulation of time. Focusing on the discussion of the three passive syntheses of time in Chapter 2 of Difference and Repetition, it traces the continuity between past, passivity and passion across Deleuze's body of work in an effort not only to remark on the conceptual resonances between them, but, more importantly, to examine the figural and formal choices that codify those resonances, and to some extent over-determine them – in particular, Deleuze's recourse to allegory and tragic form. Though the past is constituted as a primordial component of time, it already exceeds itself in the passivity of that constitutive moment, of that originary gesture by which it is first committed to historical experience. The process is rendered in dramatic terms: Habitus and Mnemosyne (Habit and Memory; Present and Past) are first pitted against each other – respectively, as the origin of time and its ground. They are then overthrown by an unnamed third element ‘which subordinates the other two to itself’ and opens the whole to infinity. The article thematises the significance of the past within this allegorical drama, develops the character, and draws out the temporal structures encoded in Deleuze's figurations.","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48274057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Utopias of the text are the moments of the emergence of a new and radical concept of the text as overflowing all limits and boundaries. Here these utopias are traced in the writings of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. They often emerge at the margins of these texts, in fragments or boundaries at which the utopia can be glimpsed before disappearing. These utopian moments can be reconstructed as a form of thinking the post-literary and its limits. They can also be traced to the explosion of speech during May 1968 and Maurice Blanchot is a key figure who links together this political moment with the ‘neutral’ form of writing. This article explores the fading of these utopias of the text alongside this draining of political energies. These processes of critique and waning suggest the inversion of utopias of the text into dystopias of the text. Now the sign or signifier appears dispersed or even insignificant compared to the powers and forces of post-literary domination. In this situation, however, the article suggests, the persistence of the utopias of the text as a critical horizon that can still inform how we grasp the equivocations of our post-literary moment.
{"title":"Utopias of the Text: Pre-Figurations of the Post-Literary","authors":"Benjamin Noys","doi":"10.3366/COUNT.2019.0148","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/COUNT.2019.0148","url":null,"abstract":"Utopias of the text are the moments of the emergence of a new and radical concept of the text as overflowing all limits and boundaries. Here these utopias are traced in the writings of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. They often emerge at the margins of these texts, in fragments or boundaries at which the utopia can be glimpsed before disappearing. These utopian moments can be reconstructed as a form of thinking the post-literary and its limits. They can also be traced to the explosion of speech during May 1968 and Maurice Blanchot is a key figure who links together this political moment with the ‘neutral’ form of writing. This article explores the fading of these utopias of the text alongside this draining of political energies. These processes of critique and waning suggest the inversion of utopias of the text into dystopias of the text. Now the sign or signifier appears dispersed or even insignificant compared to the powers and forces of post-literary domination. In this situation, however, the article suggests, the persistence of the utopias of the text as a critical horizon that can still inform how we grasp the equivocations of our post-literary moment.","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3366/COUNT.2019.0148","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41656424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Drawing on Aristotle's concepts of energeia, dunamis, and ergon, this article attempts to articulate a typology of the different works described in Édouard Levé’s Œuvres (2002 (French); 2014 (English)). This is carried out in the context of post-literary literature, i.e. following an aesthetics driven by the dismantling of ‘qualities’, understood as ‘accidents’, of literature's essence (literature's definition). It studies how Levé’s work, and particularly his opus magnum Œuvres (Works), displays a series of short descriptive texts that intend to remain in their potentiality, while, at the same time, actualising this very potentiality (a potentiality ‘in act’, by an operation triggered in the reader's imagination). The question is therefore less the nature of fiction or ‘what makes literature literature’ than ‘how does literature actualise its negation’.
{"title":"Planning the Plan: Around Works by Édouard Levé","authors":"T. Tremblay","doi":"10.3366/COUNT.2019.0149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/COUNT.2019.0149","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on Aristotle's concepts of energeia, dunamis, and ergon, this article attempts to articulate a typology of the different works described in Édouard Levé’s Œuvres (2002 (French); 2014 (English)). This is carried out in the context of post-literary literature, i.e. following an aesthetics driven by the dismantling of ‘qualities’, understood as ‘accidents’, of literature's essence (literature's definition). It studies how Levé’s work, and particularly his opus magnum Œuvres (Works), displays a series of short descriptive texts that intend to remain in their potentiality, while, at the same time, actualising this very potentiality (a potentiality ‘in act’, by an operation triggered in the reader's imagination). The question is therefore less the nature of fiction or ‘what makes literature literature’ than ‘how does literature actualise its negation’.","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42688564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article argues that what might be called the ‘post-literary’ is the completion of the literary – specifically, the literary that came to theoretical self-realisation in what came to be called Romanticism – and that that completion, which is our contemporary reality, happens, by its very nature, at the level of politics.
{"title":"The Post-Literary, Post-Truth, and Modernity","authors":"James Corby","doi":"10.3366/COUNT.2019.0150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/COUNT.2019.0150","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that what might be called the ‘post-literary’ is the completion of the literary – specifically, the literary that came to theoretical self-realisation in what came to be called Romanticism – and that that completion, which is our contemporary reality, happens, by its very nature, at the level of politics.","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49038295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guided by Barthes: Fragments of a Photo-Journal","authors":"Neil Badmington","doi":"10.3366/COUNT.2019.0153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/COUNT.2019.0153","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49032289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
To keep things simple, doubtless simplistic: what would it mean to take literally the term post-literary, which features in CounterText's subtitle? What possible consequence, or conceptual advantage, could there be for literary criticism if it countenanced, even as a thought-experiment and in suppression of the reflex for problematisation of the question, the idea of the condition of being past, or without, literature? The sophistication of literary criticism and theory on anything bearing the prefix post- is well established and has determined various important moves within these discourses. But it could be contended that there might be some edge in an experiment suspending that manner of response in favour, however briefly, of a more artless probing of how and why literature-less conditions – and they do exist – bear scrutiny. Inevitably, there will be some contrivance in the affectation of that artlessness, but this is itself not without point. Accordingly, the article considers some hypothetical and some not so hypothetical situations for a literature-less condition. The assumption is that specifying them, however briefly, can be revealing – and one aspect that emerges is that there are long histories of the condition, sufficient to vindicate reflection on taking the post-literary literally and on what might hang on that.
{"title":"… Literaturelessness …","authors":"Ivan Callus","doi":"10.3366/count.2019.0152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2019.0152","url":null,"abstract":"To keep things simple, doubtless simplistic: what would it mean to take literally the term post-literary, which features in CounterText's subtitle? What possible consequence, or conceptual advantage, could there be for literary criticism if it countenanced, even as a thought-experiment and in suppression of the reflex for problematisation of the question, the idea of the condition of being past, or without, literature? The sophistication of literary criticism and theory on anything bearing the prefix post- is well established and has determined various important moves within these discourses. But it could be contended that there might be some edge in an experiment suspending that manner of response in favour, however briefly, of a more artless probing of how and why literature-less conditions – and they do exist – bear scrutiny. Inevitably, there will be some contrivance in the affectation of that artlessness, but this is itself not without point. Accordingly, the article considers some hypothetical and some not so hypothetical situations for a literature-less condition. The assumption is that specifying them, however briefly, can be revealing – and one aspect that emerges is that there are long histories of the condition, sufficient to vindicate reflection on taking the post-literary literally and on what might hang on that.","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45493463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.3366/count.2019.0146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/count.2019.0146","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42177,"journal":{"name":"CounterText-A Journal for the Study of the Post-Literary","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47381519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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