http://hdl.handle.net/10092/11654 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:15:53 GMT 2018-01-23T17:15:53Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14511 Notes of Contributors - Continental Thought and Theory - Volume 1, Issue 4 Grimshaw, Mike; Zeiher, Cindy Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14511 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14510 Totalization as critique: a review of Marxism and Psychoanalysis: In or Against Psychology|David Pavón-Cuéllar Tupinambá, Gabriel Breakthroughs in thinking are usually made by rendering certain differences less different. Works of art, political mots d’ordre, scientific creations – as well as psychoanalytic interpretations - are capable of novelty precisely because, through these creations, we have access to a standpoint from which what has come before suddenly emerges as a field of variations contained within certain historical restrictions. New artistic experiments reveal the formal commitments of previous artistic sequences, new political affirmations can “subtract" us from ideologically overdetermined political conflicts, scientific abstraction can determine invariances which turn previous general claims into regional ones, just as surprising love encounters can lead us to reassess a life of repetitions and insisting idealizations. Such seems to also be the proper way of evaluating the merit of David Pavón-Cuéllar’s new book, Marxism and Psychoanalysis: In or Against Psychology? (Routledge, 2017), for it introduces a certain productive indifference into the otherwise disparate and conflicting attempts to bind Marx and Freud together. In doing so, Pavón-Cuéllar has both shone a light on the internal organization of this research program and opened up interesting lines of inquiry which cut across any particular stance one might take regarding this important intellectual project Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14510 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14509 Universal Life: A review reading of The Lost Thread: The Democracy of Modern Fiction | Jacques Rancière Boncardo, Robert This article introduces Jacques Rancière’s The Lost Thread: The Democracy of Modern Fiction, a book that has not yet been the object of extensive scholarly discussion. Working through the arguments from each of the book’s six chapters, I offer suggestions as to how Rancière’s readers might take up The Lost Thread’s analyses of some of modernity’s greatest writers. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14509 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14508 Proof-texting Capital via the ‘short-circuit’: a religious text? Grimshaw, Mike Drawing on Benjamin, Agamben expresses the central importance and function of citation: Just as through citation a secret meeting takes place between past generations and ours, so too between the writing of the past and present a similar kind of meeting transpires; citations function as go-betweens in this encounter. Zizek’s notion of the short-circuit, its ‘secret meeting’ occurs in this interchange. A major text and or author is ‘short-circuited’ by reading via: a ‘minor’ author, text or conceptual apparatus…If the minor reference is well chosen, such a procedure can lead to insights which completely shatter and undermine our common perceptions. It is also important, in such a reading strategy, to remember that for Benjamin, “to quote involves the interruption of its context” What follows is a deliberate short-circuiting of Capital, reading it as a religious text, seeking the proof-texts and annotating responses. The proof-texted passages, in their interruption and then their annotation by me as ‘minor author’ do have the intention of offering a type of secret meeting and short-circuit. What follows is therefore a proof-texted, annotative reading, a short-circuiting of Marx’s Capital. Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/10092/14508 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z