Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics

242 Pages·2010·17 MB·English

by  Henk Oosterling, Ewa Plonowska Ziarek (eds.)

Intermedialities
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Edited by Henk Oosterling
and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
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1. Philosophy.2. Arts. 3. Political science. 1. Oosterling, Henk. II. Ziarek, Ewa
Plonowska, 1961-
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Contents
Abbreviations vu
General Introduction
Henk Oosterling and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 1
PART ONE: Interval, Difference, Ecstasy
Introduction Il
1. Postmodem Tums-Fin de siècle Intermedialities
Hugh J. Silverman 15
2. In-Between "Spacing" and the "Chôra" in Derrida:
A Pre-Originary Medium?
Louise Burchill 27
3. "Cum" ... Revisited:
Preliminaries to Thinking the Interval
Jean-Luc Nancy and Laurens ten Kate 37
4. The Ecstasy of the Between-Us
Luce Irigaray 45
5. Intersubjectivity as Unground:
Freedom and Mediation in Irigaray and Schelling
Elaine P. Miller 57
PART TWO: Art, Technology, Embodiment
Introduction 67
6. Intermediality and the Equivalency ofTime and Space:
Manet's Psycho-Chronotope
George Smith 71
7. Beneath the Skin of the Book:
Thinking with Peter Greenaway
Peter Schwenger 79
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8. The Medium is the Body:
Computer-animated Architecture and Media Art
Bernadette Wegenstein 87
9. Allegro, ma non troppo: On Feminist Becomings
Rosi Braidotti 99
PART THREE: The Politics of Inter-esse
Introduction 115
10. The Body Intennediating Community
Rosalyn Diprose 119
Il. "Forgive me for forgiving you":
Derrida, Levinas, and Polish Aporias of Forgiveness
Dorota Glowacka 127
12. Respect for the Other and the Refounding of Society:
Practical Aspects of Intercultural Philosophy
Heinz Kimmerle 137
13. Information Imperialism,
or <;'Sir Rupert in the Sky with Die Minds"
Purushottama Bilimoria and Sally Percival Wood 153
14. On Resistance in the Digital Age
Slavoj Zizek 163
Notes 179
Bibliography 203
Index ofNames 215
Index of Topics 219
Contributors 225
Editors 229
Series and General Editor 231
Ab breviations
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vii
viii Abbreviations
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ICPD Iris Marion Young, "The Ideal ofCommunity and the Politics of Difference,"
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Abbreviations IX
P Jacques Derrida, "Positions" (1972), interview with Jean-Louis Houdebine and
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PB Peter Greenaway, The Pillow Book (Paris: Dis Voir, 1996).
PC Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
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University of Minnesota Press, 1984).
PCL Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic ofL ate Capitalism
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PIEHF F.W.J. Schelling, "Philosophical Investigations Into the Essence of Human
Freedom," in Philosophy of German Idealism, ed. Ernst Behler (New York:
The Continuum Publishing Company, 1987), 217-310.
PP Clement Greenberg, "Modernist Painting," in Postmodern Perspectives, ed.
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PR Charles Taylor, "The Politics of Recognition," in Multiculturalism: Examining
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PW Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "Dialogue and the Perception of the Other," in The
Prose of the World, trans. John O'Neill (Evanston: Northwestern University
Press, 1973),131-146.
RR Hal Foster, The Return of the Real (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996).
RLW Jacques Derrida, "Racism's Last Word," in Race, Writing, and Difference, ed.
Henry Gates, Jr. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986). 329-
338.
SG Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies (1987), trans. Gillian C. Gill (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1993).
SJL Jacques Lacan, The Seminars ofJ acques Lacan (1981), Vol. III, The Psychoses,
trans. Russell Grigg (New York: Norton, 1992).
SMEP Andrew Bowie, Schelling and Modern European Philosophy (London and
New York: Routledge, 1993).
SP Jacques Derrida, "Speech and Phenomena," in Speech and Phenomena and
s
Other Essays on Husserl Theory ofS igns (1967). trans. David B. Allison
(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973).
TGC John B. Thompson, "The Globalization of Communication," in The Global
Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate, ed.
David Held and Anthony McGrew (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000), 246-
259.
TI Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (1961) trans. Alphonso Lingis
(Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1994).
TMP Dan Graham, Two-Way Mirror Power (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999).
TN Robert W. McChesney, "It's a Small World of Big Conglomerates," in The
Nation (November 29, 1999), 11-15(N).
TR Diller + Scofidio, "Blur Building," in TransReal 7 (2000), 50.
x Abbreviations
TSBS Jonathan Sheuer, The Sound Bite Society (New York: Routledge, 2001).
TT Luce Irigaray, To Be Two (1997) trans. Monique M. Rhodes and Marco F.
Cocito-Monoc (New York and London: Routledge, 2001).
WD Maurice Blanchot, The Writing oft he Disaster (1980), trans. Ann Smock.
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995).