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THE CONCEPT OF EQUILIBRIUM IN THE WORK OF MICHEL SERRES Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Timothy Howles
This paper examines the concept of equilibrium in the work of Michel Serres. It starts with analysis of Serres’s philosophy of nature and, in particular, of the Lucretian cosmology he adumbrates in...
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STATUES OF JEFF BEZOS Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Steven D. Brown
The passage of human civilization into the new geological era of the Anthropocene raises the question of species extinction. How can we confront the possibility of collective death in a way that do...
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MICHEL SERRES AND THE SOCIAL Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Christopher Watkin
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2024)
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FACING THE ANTHROPOCENE Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
The Natural Contract (1990) marks the emergence of the environmental question in Serres’s work that became central in his later publications. Over the twenty years when the Anthropocene emerged as ...
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REDEFINING LIMITS Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Lilian Kroth
Despite Michel Serres’s caution with figures of the limit, border, and boundary which philosophy and social theory put into play, his work can fruitfully be read as a proposal to rethink limits for...
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MICHEL SERRES Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 David Webb
Michel Serres proposes that we reform our relation to the non-human world by striking a new contract to extend democratic rights and legal protections to nature. Following Serres’s lead, this has f...
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STORIES OF THE PARASITE AND SYMBIOSIS AT A TIME OF CRISIS Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Peter Johnson
Serres thought that humans had become the world’s parasites and that we must seek a more reciprocal partnership with our host. He put forward a legal justification for writing a new social contract...
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SILENT WORDS, WRITING IN TONGUES Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Vera Bühlmann
In this article, I want to ponder one particular aspect of Michel Serres as a writer: the peculiar impression that his texts are written as if “in many tongues.” Serres’s ambition with writing was ...
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SERRES AND LYOTARD Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Bill Ross
This is a lightly copy-edited version of the paper given by Bill Ross (1964–2022) at the “Michel Serres and the Social” Colloquium held at Queens’ College, Cambridge, in June 2022. The editor has m...
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notes on the contributors Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2024)
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WHAT IS CALLED THE SOCIAL? Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Christopher Watkin
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 29, No. 4, 2024)
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SYMBIOSIS AS A NATURAL CONTRACT Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Massimiliano Simons
Michel Serres’s proposal to extend the social contract to a natural contract has been met with criticism and misunderstanding. In this article, I would like to respond to common criticisms by recon...
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THE CONTRACT AND THE PARASITE Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Christopher Watkin
Michel Serres’s natural contract is not merely a proposal for an alternative legal or political paradigm. It offers something deeper: a new imaginary to unsettle and confront the deep assumptions o...
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MICHEL SERRES AND GLORY Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Steven Connor
This essay considers the abiding preoccupation with glory in Michel Serres’s work and wonders how useful it is for understanding the economies of glory in the contemporary world. Glory is often lin...
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ON MICHEL SERRES Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Joanna Hodge
This piece offers a response to Michel Serres’s Relire le relié (2019) by way of a series of interruptions, which release unexpected meanings from the trinitarianism of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit...
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Politics of the Flesh Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Dominik Finkelde, Rebekka A. Klein
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2024)
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The Vicissitudes of the Flesh and the Dreamwork of Modernism Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Robert Buch
The article explores a number of closely related concepts in Eric Santner’s wide-ranging and yet concentrated oeuvre: the concept of the flesh, which is at the center of The Royal Remains, along wi...
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Exodus into Ordinary Life Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Agata Bielik-Robson
This essay focuses on Eric Santner’s psychoanalytic reinterpretation of the crucial symbol of Judaism – yetziat mitzrayim, the getting out of Egypt – as “the Exodus out of our own Egyptomania.” For...
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The Two Bodies of the King of the Jews Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Luca Di Blasi
Starting from Santner’s essay “Freud’s ‘Moses’ and the Ethics of Nomotropic Desire,” the article explores a remarkably intriguing and simultaneously debatable statement made by Sigmund Freud regard...
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Spiderman’s Body Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Clemens Pornschlegel
The essay examines how American superheroes wage their mythological battle against evil as one of metaphysical salvation and redemption. They incorporate fantasies of super-human and super-technolo...
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notes on the contributors Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2024)
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The Inertia of All Flesh Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Rasmus Nagel
This article builds on Eric Santner’s reflections on The Weight of All Flesh and in particular his interpretation of the king’s two bodies (Royal Remains). Within the context of Protestant theology...
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Till Death Do Us Part Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Daniel Weidner
The so-called Kulturkampf, the conflict between the German Reich and the Catholic Church in the 1870s and 1880s, is one of the most important ideological conflicts of the late nineteenth century an...
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Politics of the Flesh Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Dominik Finkelde, Rebekka A. Klein
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2024)
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Too Muchness, the Surplus of Immanence, Manatheism Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Mladen Dolar
This paper tries to provide some clues and red threads through the magisterial work of Eric Santner. The first part takes the point of departure in his book on Schreber (My Own Private Germany) and...
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The Flesh of All Words Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Ino Augsberg
Scrutinising Santner’s comments on his own method in his recent book Untying Things Together, the paper argues that at the heart of Santner’s theoretical endeavour lies something that might be call...
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The Pathological A priori Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Dominik Finkelde
While classical authority is positivistic in form, authority in the age of Radical Democracy is negative in form. The latter produces shame as the pathological a priori of modern subjectivity. Sham...
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Desecularizing Santner’s Psychotheology Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Rebekka A. Klein
In this paper, Eric Santner’s theory of political flesh is appreciated in its relation to philosophy of religion and Christian theology. In the first part of the paper, Santner’s speculative concep...
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Negative Anthropology in Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Freud Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Eric L. Santner
In his Mann ohne Eigenschaften, Robert Musil has the character Clarisse comment on a debate between her husband, Walter, and Ulrich, the “man without qualities,” about the “impossible” relation bet...
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Hyper-Sovereignty and Community Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Jeffrey D. Gower
The article retraces three important steps along the path of Derrida’s Heidegger interpretation in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II. Readings of The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, Intro...
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Fidelity to Life ∼ Hospitable Biopolitics Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Chris Hall
While fidelity is a crucial aspect of Jacques Derrida’s thinking as it pertains to issues of faith, ethics, and responsibility, this key position in deconstructionist discourse has hardly yet been ...
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Life Death Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Caterina Resta, translated from the Italian by Simon Tanner
Deconstruction occupies an “eccentric” place in the varied field of biopolitics, as it radicalizes the indissoluble knot that binds life to power. On the basis of Foucauldian analysis, Derrida refl...
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The Exception Derrida – The “Secret Elect” of the Animals Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Fernanda Bernardo
This paper intends above all to highlight three fundamental interconnected questions: (1) without reifying it in a theoretical-systematic philosophy, to highlight Derrida’s Deconstruction as a “phi...
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Deconstruction’s Animal Promise Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Giustino De Michele
Based on a reading of the opening of The Animal That Therefore I Am, this essay exposes the genealogy and structure of the articulation of two motifs of Jacques Derrida’s thought: the promise and a...
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Derrida’s “Very Idea of Democracy” Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Annabel Herzog
This paper focuses on the relationships that Derrida establishes between three analytic discussions and three autoimmunities. The analytic discussions are (1) the antinomy of hospitality, related t...
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Language by Birth and Nationality by Death Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Michael Portal
Most countries provide some form of nationality or citizenship either by birthright or inheritance. This paper accepts Jacques Derrida’s invitation to imagine nationality or citizenship otherwise, ...
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Derrida and Parle-Ment (Parliament) Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Tyler Correia
Recent scholarship on Jacques Derrida’s work has turned toward his political and institutional engagements. I further this body of research by outlining a twofold problematic regarding the issue of...
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Today’s Enlightenment Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Valentina Surace
This paper aims to present Derrida’s reflections on Europe, which criticizes Europe’s actuality while recognizing its promise to-come. Europe in modernity has been conceptualized as sovereign headi...
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“What is Proper to a Culture” Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Cillian Ó Fathaigh
This article considers sociocultural identity and identification in the work of Jacques Derrida. Though Derrida’s philosophy is often presented as a source of inspiration for identity politics, Der...
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The Notion of Responsibility and the Poetic Revolution in Derrida’s Thought Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Alejandro Orozco Hidalgo
This paper delves into the deconstruction of the notion of responsibility, drawing a correlation with the process of decomposition of the concept of sovereignty as discussed by Derrida in his last ...
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Philosophical Responsibility Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Rebeca Pérez León
This essay advances the thesis that Derrida’s ethics consists in the practice of philosophical responsibility. I contend that philosophical responsibility is the historical and ethical task of esta...
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Derrida’s Counter-Institution and Its Ethics of Promise and Responsibility Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Petar Bojanić, Andrea Perunović
In this article, we consider Derrida’s grasp on counter-institution and outline a peculiar modality of ethics that it engenders. After evoking his counter-institutional public engagements in the in...
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How to Make Impossible Decisions Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Catherine M. Robb
In this paper, I propose that Derrida’s writing on the impossibility of justice has the potential for fruitful dialogue with Ruth Chang’s contemporary account of practical rationality. For Derrida,...
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Derrida and the Time of Decision Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Joe Larios
Derrida’s description of the aporia of decision-making is herein used to demonstrate how ethico-political concerns can already be found within the articulation of time and space as they are experie...
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Auto-affection and Ethics Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Zeynep Direk
This essay starts with the possibility of situating Derrida’s aporetic ethics in the domain of normative ethics and argues that Derrida’s reflection on ethics is enrooted in the specific way he con...
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Fugitive Philosophy Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Dylan Vaughan
The central inquiry of this article concerns the ethical orientation within post-structuralism, specifically questioning its potential affinity with deontology. While the “philosophers of differenc...
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Logics of Alterity in Derrida’s and Deleuze’s Philosophies of Justice Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Corry Shores
Jacques Derrida’s and Gilles Deleuze’s philosophies of justice share many similar features. For both, justice involves an overturning of law by extralegal means, made possible by an “undecidability...
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An Ethics Worthy of the Name Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Marie Chabbert
This paper sheds light on the relation of mutual exclusion and implication that binds Derridean ethics with the figure of God. In rupture with existing scholarship that categorizes Derridean ethics...
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Quoting the Other Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Francesco Vitale
In “Toward an Ethic of Discussion,” Jacques Derrida returns to the controversy with Jonathan Searle to clarify his position but above all because he “would have wished to make legible the (philosop...
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Immanent Ethics and Deconstruction Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Mehdi Parsa
This paper endeavors to argue that Derrida’s deconstructionist ethics can be construed as an embodiment of immanent ethics. To achieve this goal, it commences with Friedrich Nietzsche’s articulatio...
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Deconstruction as Ethics without Result Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Johan de Jong
This paper investigates the ethics of deconstruction by considering it as a form of “resultless” thinking in the sense Hannah Arendt gave to that term: as the destabilization rather than the produc...
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Derrida Escaping the Deserts of Moral Law Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Barry Stocker
This paper gives an account of the most significant elements of Derrida’s ethical thought, drawing on the desert of the Hebrew Bible, which Derrida associates with a moral law that is ethically tro...
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Notes on the Contributors Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2024-05-08
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 29, No. 1-2, 2024)
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“Forgettings That Want to be Remembered” Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Jennifer Walklate
This paper hypothesises that museums are fundamentally haunted, and hauntological, institutions, and argues that understanding the spectre is necessary to understanding the true position and potent...
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J.M. Coetzee and the Aesthetics of Disgust Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Chris Danta
This article contends that we can learn much about how Coetzee tells stories by examining how he treats the subject of disgust. Coetzee represents disgust so often in his fiction, I argue, because ...
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“A Cognitive Listening” Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Sarah Hayden
This paper proposes a theory of text on-screen as “unvoiceover.” It addresses both the case for captioning as social good and the affordances (aesthetic, affective) of writing in or over the moving...
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notes on the contributors Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16
Published in Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (Vol. 28, No. 6, 2023)
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O Friends No Friend Angelaki (IF 0.2) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Andrew Haas
Our concept of politics – especially democracy – presupposes a principle of friendship, but our principle of friendship comes out of an understanding of the friend. However, from the Greeks to Derr...