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The Parallax View
Slavoj Žižek
Philosophy MIT press 9780262240512 Available
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Annotation: The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in observational position. Žižek is interested in the "parallax gap" separating two points between which no synthesis or mediation is possible, linked by an "impossible short circuit" of levels that can never meet. From this consideration of parallax, Žižek begins a rehabilitation of dialectical materialism. Modes of parallax can be seen in different domains of today's theory, from the wave-particle duality in quantum physics to the parallax of the unconscious in Freudian psychoanalysis between interpretations of the formation of the unconscious and theories of drives. In The Parallax View, Žižek, with his usual astonishing erudition, focuses on three main modes of parallax: the ontological difference, the ultimate parallax that conditions our very access to reality; the scientific parallax, the irreducible gap between the phenomenal experience of reality and its scientific explanation, which reaches its apogee in today's brain sciences (according to which "nobody is home" in the skull, just stacks of brain meat—a condition Žižek calls "the unbearable lightness of being no one"); and the political parallax, the social antagonism that allows for no common ground. Between his discussions of these three modes, Žižek offers interludes that deal with more specific topics—including an ethical act in a novel by Henry James and anti-anti-Semitism. The Parallax View not only expands Žižek's Lacanian-Hegelian approach to new domains (notably cognitive brain sciences) but also provides the systematic exposition of the conceptual framework that underlies his entire work. Philosophical and theological analysis, detailed readings of literature, cinema, and music coexist with lively anecdotes and obscene jokes.
Identifier: 9780262240512
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Metamorphoses
Rosi Braidotti
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Philosophy Polity Press 0745625762 Available
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Other title information: towards a materialist theory of becoming
Annotation: This original contribution to current debates is written for those who find changes and transformations challenging and necessary. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, feminist theory, gender studies, sociology, social theory and cultural studies.
Identifier: 0745625762
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Cultural Artifacts and the production of meaning
Edited by Margaret J. M. Ezell | Hatherine O'Brien O'Heefe
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- The Page, the Image, and the Body
Culture University of Michigan Press 0472082574 Available
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Annotation: Diverse essays addressing a variety of subjects, from Renaissance cartography to performance art to rap music, united in their common exploration of material criticism. This recognizes that materialist criticism may embrace techniques borrowed from psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxian, and historicist criticisms. It employs materialist criticism to broaden and strengthen our understanding of what constitutes a 'cultural artifact' and how such artifacts function.
Identifier: 0472082574
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Symbolic Economies
Jean-Joseph Groux
Social New York | USA 0801496128 Available
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Other title information: After Marx and Freud
Notes: This volume contains selection from Jean-Joseph Groux, Freud, Marx: Economie et symbolique (1973) and Les iciniclastes (1978)
Annotation: Goux combines the marxist notion of materialism and Freud's psychoanalysis to provide an analysis of the socio-economic problems.
Identifier: 0801496128
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’La femme qui se rajuste’ et ’la femme aux patins’: Essai d’analyse sémiologique d’une certaine photo de mode
JEAN-CHARLES LEBAHAR
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 1-24
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.1
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.1
A linguistic analysis of deletion in cinema
JOHN M. CARROLL
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.25
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.25
An indigenous theory of meaning and its elicitation in performative context
MICHAEL HERZFELD
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.113
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.113
Kiss-ass talk’: A move in the language game of servants and masters
ZSUZSA BAROSS
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.71
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.71
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.189
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.189
Punctuation as nonverbal communication: Toward an interdisciplinary approach to writing
FERNANDO POYATOS
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.91
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.91
Review article
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.143
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.143
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.u
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.u
The regulation of speaker turns in face-to-face conversation: Some implications for conversation in sound-only communication channels
GEOFFREY W. BEATTIE
In: Semiotica 1981, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.55
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1981.34.1-2.55