tionship in contrastive ways and insists in the end on the central place of representation in rendering such dilemmas intelligible and their presuppositions contestable.
Knox Peden
Planet v obliki kocke
Ključne besede: Antropocen, Paul Bowles, Immanuel Kant, prostor, čas, estetika
V današnjih humanističnih vedah ne manjka sklicevanj na antropocen in ontološke premike, ki naj bi jih ta domnevno sprožil. Esej se osredotoči na več fiktivnih in kritičnih del -predvsem na roman Paula Bowlesa The Sheltering Sky iz leta 1949 - zato da bi podal vrsto trditev glede težavnosti predstavljanja razmerja med naravo kot področjem kavzalnosti, ki se podreja naravnim zakonom, na eni strani ter nominalno človeškim ali razumskim področjem, kamor sodijo dejanja, namere in različni upravičeni ali neupravičeni razlogi, na drugi strani. Predvsem pa ga zanima raziskovanje želja, ki motivirajo prizadevanja po kontrastnih načinih reprezentiranja tega razmerja in na koncu vztraja na ključni vlogi re-prezentacije, ki naredi upodabljanje takšnih dilem razumljivo, njihove predpostavke pa problematične.
Justin Clemens
Syllable as Syntax: Stephane Mallarme's Un Coup de des
Key words: Stephane Mallarme, Un Coup de des, Aristotle, Alain Badiou, Edgar Allan Poe, counting
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Un Coup de des is one of the masterworks of modern literature, and a kind of summa of ^^ Stephane Mallarme's lifework. It could not have been better served by writers and thinkers: on the one hand, it immediately transformed the field for working poets as different as Paul ^^ Valery and Christopher Brennan, as for so many more thereafter; on the other, a strong lineage of European philosophy registered the poem as an event for thought, encompassing Maurice Blanchot, J.-P. Sartre, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques 331 Ranciere, Alain Badiou, J.-C. Milner, Quentin Meillassoux, and many others. Confronted by this sequence of commentaries by poets and philosophers, a contemporary reader could be forgiven for experiencing a methodological and intellectual impasse. How could one add to this sequence of readings except as a supernumerary number that could always be another? Yet how could one also not feel that the sequence itself demands another numbering or enumeration of the operations of the poem? This paper sketches out a sequence of hypotheses regarding the foundations of Mallarme's poem in a new relation that he forges between syllables and syntax.
Justin Clemens
Zlog kot skladnja: Mallarmejev Met kock
Ključne besede: Stephane Mallarme, Met kock, Aristotel, Alain Badiou, Edgar Allan Poe, štetje
Met kack je mojstrovina moderne literature in nekakšen povzetek življenjskega dela Stephana Mallarmeja. Delo ne bi moralo bolje služiti pisateljem in mislecem: na eni strani je v trenutku spremenilo področje takrat delujočih pesnikov - še tako različnih, kot sta Paul Valery in Christopher Brennan, kot tudi njunih številnih naslednikov; na drugi strani pa je močna struja evropske filozofije - kot so Maurice Blanchot, J.-P. Sartre, Paul de Man, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Ranciere, Alain Badiou, J.-C. Milner, Quentin Meillassoux in številni drugi pesnitev označila za miselni dogodek. Soočen z zaporedjem pesniških in filozofskih komentarjev, se sodobni bralec upravičeno znajde v metodološki in intelektualni zagati. Kakšen bi bil lahko prispevek k danemu zaporedju branj, ki ne bi tudi sam postal nadštevno število, ki bi zmerom lahko bilo drugo? Toda kako se lahko izognemo občutku, da samo zaporedje zahteva dodatno štetje ozrioma naštevanje operacij te pesnitve? Prispevek oriše nekaj hipotez glede temeljev Mallarmejeve pesnitve z vidika novega razmerja med zlogom in skladnjo, kot ga vpelje Mallarme.
Henry Sussman Digital Parables
Key words: Anthony Wilden, Douglas R. Hofstadter, system, melancholia, Zen köans,
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One pivotal landmark of contemporary culture already in play by 2005 but by no means ^^ at its current scale or profundity was an all-absorbing involvement in and dependency on digital technologies. There was simply no way of anticipating the full degree to which cybernetic devices and ontology would not only overwhelm communications and the 332 synthesis, archiving, formatting, and recall of information but also dominate socio-economic relations and interactions, cognition, and even psycho-motor capability. It turns out, in the hindsight afforded by 2015, that the geeks who, already in the 1970's and 1980's discerned the lineaments and metaphysics of the cybernetic universe, were not so far removed along the academic corridor from those wild and invariably subversive critical theorists as we might think. For one, the Anthony Wilden, whose 1972 System and Structure established definitive benchmarks for the interaction between analog and digital organization, is the same critic whose translations, e.g, of Language af the Self, introduced the English-speaking audience to the thought of Jacques Lacan. Douglas R. Hofstadter, in composing a Computer Science textbook for the general public (Gödel, Escher Bach, 1979), synthesized a work as literarily playful as scientifically methodical. His