Figures Of Radical Absence
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Figures Of Radical Absence
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Author : Alexandra-Ecaterina Irimia
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-10-02
Figures Of Radical Absence written by Alexandra-Ecaterina Irimia and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Although post-structuralism has highlighted the importance of what is offstage, lost, forgotten, hidden or discarded, silent or silenced, the poetics and politics of absence (much like its ethics and aesthetics) have rarely been discussed across media or disciplines. The book conceptualizes 'radical absence' to describe a certain tradition of resistance to ontology, predication, and representation, contesting their reliance on a metaphysics of presence. Apophatic speech, empty signifiers, and figural voids are some of the figures through which radical absence becomes apparent, with unprecedented intensity, in 20th-century theory, literature, film, and the arts. Phantasmatic and outrageous, such figures play with creative strategies of de-materialization, irony, and other forms of discursive undoing. Therefore, absence becomes more than a simple theme; it reflects back on the medium and the meaning-making conditions under which it operates. Elusive and imprecise as an object of study, absence is in need of more subtle and flexible epistemological frameworks. The author proposes to think it not only as a counter-concept for presence, but also - perhaps more productively - as infinite spacing, deferral, fragmentation, and displacement.
Figures Of Radical Absence
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Author : Alexandra Irimia
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-10-02
Figures Of Radical Absence written by Alexandra Irimia and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-02 with categories.
Levinas And The Postcolonial
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Author : John E Drabinski
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-31
Levinas And The Postcolonial written by John E Drabinski and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-31 with Philosophy categories.
The idea of the Other is central to both Levinas' philosophy and to postcolonialism, but they both apply the concept in different ways. Now, John Drabinski asks what we can learn from reading Levinas alongside postcolonial theories of difference.
Difficult Death Dying And The Dead In Media And Culture
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Author : Sharon Coleclough
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-11-25
Difficult Death Dying And The Dead In Media And Culture written by Sharon Coleclough and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-25 with Social Science categories.
This book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The collection defines an understanding of ‘difficult death’ and examines the differences between death, dying and the dead, as well as exploring the ethical challenges of researching death in mediated form. The collection is attendant to the ways in which difficult deaths are imbricated in power structures both before and after they become mediatised in culture. As such, the work navigates the many political and social complexities and inequalities – what might be deemed the difficulties – of death, dying and the dead. The book seeks to expand understandings of the difficulty of death in media and culture through a wide range of chapters from different contexts focused on literature, film, television, and in online environments, as well as several chapters examining news reportage of difficult deaths.
Orientalism And The Figure Of The Jew
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Author : Jeffrey S. Librett
language : en
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Release Date : 2014-11-03
Orientalism And The Figure Of The Jew written by Jeffrey S. Librett and has been published by Fordham Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-03 with Religion categories.
Orientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern Orientalism. Tracing a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the mid–twentieth centuries, Librett argues that Orientalism and anti-Judaism are inextricably entangled. Librett suggests, further, that the Western assertion of “material” power, in terms of which Orientalism is often read, is overdetermined by a “spiritual” weakness: an anxiety about the absence of absolute foundations and values that coincides with Western modernity itself. The modern West, he shows, posits an Oriental origin as a fetish to fill the absent place of lacking foundations. This fetish is appropriated as Western through a quasi-secularized application of Christian typology. Further, the Western appropriation of the “good” Orient always leaves behind the remainder of the “bad,” inassimilable Orient. The book traces variations on this theme through historicist and idealist texts of the nineteenth century and then shows how high modernists like Buber, Kafka, Mann, and Freud place this historicist narrative in question. The book concludes with the outlines of a cultural historiography that would distance itself from the metaphysics of historicism, confronting instead its underlying anxieties.
Radical Polymerization
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Author : Michael Buback
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2007-07-16
Radical Polymerization written by Michael Buback and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The IUPAC-sponsored International Symposium on "Radical Polymerization: Kinetics and Mechanism" was held in Il Ciocco (Italia) during the week September 3-8, 2006. It was the fourth within the series of so-called SML conferences, which are the major scientific forum for addressing kinetic and mechanistic aspects of free-radical polymerization and of ontrolled radical polymerization. Top international authors like K. Matyjaszewski, T. P. Davis, T. Fukuda and others present their latest research. The five major themes covered were: Fundamentals of Free-Radical Polymerization, Heterogeneous Polymerization, Controlled Radical Polymerization, Polymer Reaction Engineering, and Polymer Characterization. SML IV again marked an important step forward toward the better understanding of the kinetics and mechanism of radical polymerization, which is extremely relevant for both conventional and controlled radical polymerization and for people in academia as well as in industry.
Higher Level Phylogenetics Of Erigonine Spiders Araneae Linyphiidae Erigoninae
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Author : Gustavo Hormiga
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Higher Level Phylogenetics Of Erigonine Spiders Araneae Linyphiidae Erigoninae written by Gustavo Hormiga and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Linyphiidae categories.
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Lacan But Were Afraid To Ask Hitchcock
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Author : Slavoj Zizek
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2010-08-03
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Lacan But Were Afraid To Ask Hitchcock written by Slavoj Zizek and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-03 with Performing Arts categories.
The contributors bring to bear an unrivaled enthusiasm and theoretical sweep on the entire Hitchcock oeuvre, analyzing movies such as Rear Window and Psycho. Starting from the premise that ‘everything has meaning,’ the authors examine the films’ ostensible narrative content and formal procedures to discover a rich proliferation of hidden ideological and psychic mechanisms. But Hitchcock is also a bait to lure the reader into a serious Marxist and Lacanian exploration of the construction of meaning. An extraordinary landmark in Hitchcock studies, this new edition features a brand-new essay by philosopher Slavoj Žižek, presenter of Sophie Fiennes’s three-part documentary The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema.
Lessons On Rousseau
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Author : Louis Althusser
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2019-11-26
Lessons On Rousseau written by Louis Althusser and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with Philosophy categories.
Althusser delivered these lectures on Rousseau's Discourse on the Origins of Inequality at the cole normale suprieure in Paris in 1972. They are fascinating for two reasons. First, they gave rise to a new generation of Rousseau scholars, attentive not just to Rousseau's ideas, but also to those of his concepts that were buried beneath metaphors or fictional situations and characters. Second, we are now discovering that the "late Althusser's" theses about aleatory materialism and the need to break with the strict determinism of theories of history in order to devise a new philosophy "for Marx" were being worked out well before 1985 in this reading of Rousseau dating from twelve years earlier, which introduces into Rousseau's text the ideas of the void, the accident, the take, and the necessity of contingency.
Chiral Photochemical Scissors Targeting Proteins
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Author : Kumar Challa
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2018-10-26
Chiral Photochemical Scissors Targeting Proteins written by Kumar Challa and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-26 with Science categories.
The remarkable ability to target one or even a couple of sites on a large protein with a small molecule, under photochemical control, is a considerable challenge and this challenge has been addressed in some depth in this book. Systematic modification of the structure of the photoreagent provided valuable information on the binding site recognition as well as the mechanism of the photocleavage reaction. Some factors that impact the photocleavage reaction include the exact location of the probe binding site on the protein, conformations of the bound probe at the binding site, protein size, functional groups present on the probe that interact with the protein surroundings either in a favorable or unfavorable manner, overall charge on the photoreagent, and photophysical as well as photochemical properties of the probe. The protein photocleavage studies, in all case, were preceded by detailed binding studies by a variety of spectroscopic methods. Methods as simple as absorption and fluorescence spectroscopies or more sophisticated circular dichroism spectroscopy were used. Conclusions that are most consistent with the binding data indicated a single binding site on most proteins, irrespective of the probe or the protein, with only one exception noted so far. Photoactivation of the bound probe resulted in protein cleavage at a single site, in many instances. The specificity for the reaction has been investigated in detail and molecular modeling studies provided a firm ground to rationalize the observed cleavage sites. The reagents provide unique tools for sequencing large proteins by converting them into smaller fragments by non-biochemical transformations. Understanding of the rules for the above methodology are also investigated which provided rational methods for the design of small molecules that could bind at particular sites on large proteins, and this is a major breakthrough for a variety of fields including drug design, protein targeting, mass spectrometry, proteomics and other cutting-edge research areas.