Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110394
I. Ferber
Abstract Many considerations of Walter Benjamin's oeuvre refer to the central role of the image (photographic, cinematic) and of the visual. Much has been written on terms such as the “optical unconscious,” “thought image,” and “dialectical image” in Benjamin, especially in his autobiographical text, Berlin Childhood Around 1900. The article seeks to draw attention to another sensory undercurrent in Berlin Childhood, namely, the sense of hearing and acoustics. Benjamin does not only think in images: he is also drawn to sounds, noises, and voices. I offer close readings of sections from Berlin Childhood (specifically, “Loggias,” “Imperial Panorama,” “Mummerehlen,” “Market-Hall,” “Blumeshof 12,” and “News of Death”) and show that there are two types of an acoustic presence in the text. The first pertains to the city sounds the child hears and the adult no longer pays attention to, and the second involves the sounds of language.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110397
A. Cimino
Abstract If we examine the discussion between Carnap and Heidegger about metaphysics, we can easily see that epistemological, logical, and ontological issues were at the forefront of that debate, whereas at first glance the nature of philosophical writing seems to be of very little importance. This article intends to demonstrate that this impression is not accurate. When Carnap and Heidegger voiced their theses on metaphysics, they also put forth intriguing ideas about the relationship between metaphysics, science, and literature. Those ideas deserve much attention because they can help us better understand why they maintained their respective conceptions of metaphysics, philosophy, and science. More importantly, this article argues that an analysis of their ideas about philosophical writing enables us to discover unsuspected similarities between Carnap and Heidegger.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110402
Christopher Peterson
Abstract This essay explores Jacques Derrida’s nonteleological conception of postracism, which he elucidated in his unpublished response to Ètienne Balibar’s keynote address at the tRACEs conference held at UC Irvine in 2003. Racism, for Derrida, is intrinsically “plastic,” which predisposes it to future metonymic forms even if racism stricto sensu were to end. Building on his observations, I argue that these metonymies also extend historically backward. The metaphysical distinction between physis and nomos that he identifies as the condition of racism also provides the basis for family: the most ancient and familiar form through which racism expresses itself. Racism is originarily plastic. In conjunction with my reading of Derrida, I critique the contemporary conflation of racism and white supremacy; the doctrinaire view that racism is only institutional (prejudice plus power); and the discourse of microaggressions, whose outsized political currency arguably transforms them into quasi-macroaggressions by conceiving them as expressions of white supremacy.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110401
Tom Hoctor
Abstract This article sets out the contours of a Marxist hermeneutic approach to political economy. It begins by outlining how such a critique of political economy would function, with a particular emphasis on approaches which understand the discipline of economics as theory. It further claims that critique is over-reliant on the concept neoliberalism; that the categories proper to economic critique are value, time and space and that the innovation of a hermeneutic approach would be to reintroduce a sphere for antagonism through the analysis of the relationship of economic theory to value. To substantiate this argument, I offer an analysis of some important trends in recent scholarship on neoliberalism, notably the regulation school and the work of Wendy Brown. The article concludes by arguing that a reorientation towards value is timely and necessary, given the serious global recession precipitated by the Coronavirus and the economic reorganisation which will ensue.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110400
C. Bennett
Abstract In this paper I give an interpretation of the Wim Wenders film, Paris, Texas, that brings to bear Talbot Brewer’s notion of “dialectical activity.” According to Brewer, dialectical activity is an activity the value of which is only obscurely glimpsed at the outset, and which must be deepened and broadened through progressive engagement in the activity. I argue that these features characterize Travis, the main character in the film, and that his developing engagement in activity explains the viewer’s sense of initial disorientation gradually resolving itself into clarity. Drawing on Alasdair MacIntyre, I argue that another reason for disorientation is provided by the overwhelming social environment of modern America that makes the pursuit of dialectical activity hard to sustain.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110399
Jana Cattien, R. Stopford
Abstract In this paper, we explore what it means for an object to be eerie. We argue that the Eerie is an index of phenomenology’s limits: it is a complex, contradictory moment in the dialectics of subject/object formation. If the familiar story of phenomenology correlates the contours of objects along transcendental vectors of subjective experience, the de-formations of eeriness emerge as the object’s resistance to our assimilation of it. An object’s eeriness is its pulling away from the pall of familiarity the subject throws over the object-world; even as the eerie object recedes from us, that very recession re-establishes it as part of a material, object field, no longer fully correlated to the subject. Yet as disturbing as eerie objects are, we also seek them out; they are compelling in their strangeness. As such, we develop a view of the Eerie which involves conflicted polarities of experience: repulsion and attraction.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110405
L. Irigaray, Tobias Müller
Abstract In this interview, Luce Irigaray talks about how two of her latest books, Towards a New Human Being and To Be Born, relate to her wider work and her most well-known theoretical contributions. Irigaray offers reflections on important additions to her earlier work and how those can be a response to the most urgent challenges humanity is facing today. By explaining how her work, especially the difference between sexual and sexuate, has been misinterpreted, she responds to criticisms such as those regarding the experiences of transgender people. The interview draws on the regular conversations Luce Irigaray continues to hold with Ph.D. researchers and the communities of learning she is pioneering with her students.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725x.2022.2110389
S. Moncef
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110391
A. Tynan
Abstract This paper offers a close reading of “The Geology of Morals,” the third and possibly most important chapter, or plateau, of Deleuze and Guattari’s magnum opus A Thousand Plateaus. I analyse some of the many philosophical and scientific sources informing Deleuze and Guattari’s densely argued text. The authors’ shift of emphasis from the critique of psychoanalysis to a geological or stratigraphic register is emphasized and explained by situating their project in relation both to contemporary debates surrounding the Anthropocene and to the problem of nihilism as this was articulated by Nietzsche and Heidegger. I argue that Deleuze and Guattari’s stratigraphy, a topic that has received comparatively little attention in the secondary literature, helps us to understand the history of nihilism in terms of humanity’s planetary impact.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-03DOI: 10.1080/0969725X.2022.2110395
Iain Campbell, Peter Nelson
Abstract Rhythm is generally taken to refer to a temporal pattern of events. Yet in recent years, across diverse fields in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, it has come to serve as the conceptual marker for a wide range of new approaches to understanding relations and relationality, following most explicitly from the late work of Henri Lefebvre. This article explores the temporal aspect of such relational thinking, in particular asking how time is implicated in relations, and how it can be meaningful in those relations. The sense of time is surveyed from the perspectives of both cognition and metaphysics as well as with reference to music scholarship and social theory, and key threads are drawn, from the writings of Gaston Bachelard and Charles Sanders Peirce in particular, in order to suggest that time can be a sign, and that the signifying properties of rhythm have critical social consequences.
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