Intermedialities Philosophy, Arts, Politics

by Oosterling, Henk; Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska; Silverman, Hugh J.; Burchill, Louise; Nancy, Jean-Luc; Kate, Laurens ten; Irigaray, Luce; Miller, Elaine P.; Smith, George; Schwenger, Peter; Wegenstein, Bernadette; Braidotti, Rosi; Diprose, Rosalyn; Glowacka, Dor

• ISBN13: 9780739127360
• ISBN10: 0739127365
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-14
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research called ôintermedialities.ö The concept of intermedialities stresses the necessity of situating philosophical and political debates on social relations in the divergent contexts of media theories, avant-garde artistic practices, continental philosophy, feminism, and political theory.

Author Biography

Henk Oosterling is associate professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Philosophy Arts at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) at Rotterdam. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	p. vii
General Introduction	p. 1
Interval, Difference, Ecstasy
Introduction	p. 11
Postmodern Turns-Fin de siècle Intermedialities	p. 15
In-Between ôSpacingö and the ôChôraö in Derrida: A Pre-Originary Medium?	p. 27
ôCumö … Revisited: Preliminaries to Thinking the Interval	p. 37
The Ecstasy of the Between-Us	p. 45
Intersubjectivity as Unground: Freedom and Mediation in Irigaray and Schelling	p. 57
Art, Technology, Embodiment
Introduction	p. 67
Intermediality and the Equivalency of Time and Space: Manet's Psycho-Chronotope	p. 71
Beneath the Skin of the Book: Thinking with Peter Greenaway	p. 79
The Medium is the Body: Computer-animated Architecture and Media Art	p. 87
Allegro, ma non troppo: On Feminist Becomings	p. 99
The Politics of Inter-esse
Introduction	p. 115
The Body Intermediating Community	p. 119
ôForgive me for forgiving youö: Derrida, Levinas, and Polish Aporias of Forgiveness	p. 127
Respect for the Other and the Refounding of Society: Practical Aspects of Intercultural Philosophy	p. 137
Information Imperialism, or ôSir Rupert in the Sky with Die Mindsö	p. 153
On Resistance in the Digital Age	p. 163
Notes	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 203
Index of Names	p. 215
Index of Topics	p. 219
Contributors	p. 225
Editors	p. 229
Series and General Editor	p. 231
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