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Being Vulnerable

Contemporary Political Thought

By: Arne De Boever

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Being Vulnerable

Contemporary Political Thought

By: Arne De Boever

We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo vulnerabilis is once again coming to terms with the fact that it can be wounded, or even killed. Against such finitude, sovereignty is now reasserting itself as a political power that might save us from our ontological state. The irony is, of course, that such sovereignty – for example through camps, walls, police violence, or drones – is also the underlying, historical cause of many of our most intense contemporary experiences of vulnerabilization. Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both the cause of our vulnerabilization and the phantasmatic tool of its prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how today’s experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a collective human power that dismantles the form of sovereignty that is producing this state of affairs. Focused on theories, paradigms, and alternative formations of sovereignty, Being Vulnerable reconsiders the tradition of thinking through a political concept in order to approach it anew.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0228016304

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9780228016304

François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought

A Critical Introduction

By: Arne De Boever

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François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought

A Critical Introduction

By: Arne De Boever

Although the French Hellenist and sinologist François Jullien has published more than thirty books, half of which have been translated into English, he remains much less known in the English-language world than many of his fellow “French philosophers”. This may be due to his work being perceived as within the limits of sinology. This book attempts to rectify this, highlighting Jullien’s work at the intersection of Chinese and Western thought and drawing out the “unthought” in both traditions of thinking. This "unthought" can be seen as what conditions our thought, and opens it up onto new ways of thinking and understanding. The notion of "unthought" is at the core of Jullien’s methodology, operating in what he calls the "divergence of the in-between". Written in an engaging style, Arne De Boever offers an accessible introduction to François Jullien’s work that emphatically challenges some of the core assumptions of Western reasoning.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1786615770

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Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

By: Arne De Boever

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Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

By: Arne De Boever

If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of theoretical writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of J.M. Coetzee's Slow Man, Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Paul Auster's The Book of Illusions, and Tom McCarthy's Remainder, it seeks to reframe debates about realism in the novel ranging from Ian Watt to Zadie Smith as engagements with the novel's biopolitical origins: its relation to pastoral care, the camps, and the welfare state. Within such an understanding of the novel, what possibilities for a critical aesthetics of existence does the contemporary novel include?

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441128778

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Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism

By: Arne De Boever

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Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism

By: Arne De Boever

Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics Here, Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to describe the widespread belief that art and artists are exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that belief by focusing on the sovereign artist as genius, as well as the original artwork as the foundation of the art market. Engaging with sculpture, conceptual artwork, and painting by emerging and established artists, De Boever proposes a worldly, democratic notion of unexceptional art as an antidote to the problems of aesthetic exceptionalism. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452962200

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Being Vulnerable

Contemporary Political Thought

By: Arne De Boever

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Contemporary Political Thought

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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Gilbert Simondon

By: Arne De Boever

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Gilbert Simondon

By: Arne De Boever

This collection of essays, including one by Simondon himself, is first sustained exploration of Simondon's work in English. It outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the implication of his thought for numerous disciplines and his relationship

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748650792

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Plastic Sovereignties

Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics

By: Arne De Boever

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Plastic Sovereignties

Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics

By: Arne De Boever

Does sovereignty have a future in the 21st century?Through a sustained engagement with the work of the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold. Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues that these possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation of sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and explode the forms of our political future.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748684999

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Finance Fictions

Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis

By: Arne De Boever

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Finance Fictions

Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis

By: Arne De Boever

Finance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to be things at all, but highly abstracted speculations, how do we come to see the real? What sorts of narrative can accurately approach the actual workings of a neoliberal economy marked by accelerating cycles of market crashes, economic and political crisis, and austerity? Revisiting such twentieth-century classics of the genre as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, De Boever argues that the twenty-first century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of realistic novel that can make sense of complex financial instruments like collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, and digital algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or computers can record. If in 1989 Wolfe could still urge novelists to work harder to “tame the billion-footed beast of reality,” today’s economic reality confronts us with a difference that is qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close reading of finance novels by Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Ben Lerner and less well-known works of conceptual writing such as Mathew Timmons’ Credit, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary economy—an “if” whose implications turn out to be deeply political. Part literary study and part philosophical inquiry, Finance Fictions seeks to contribute to a new mindset for creative and critical work on finance in the twenty-first century.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823279189

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François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought

A Critical Introduction

By: Arne De Boever

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A Critical Introduction

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States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel

Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald

By: Arne De Boever

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States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel

Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald

By: Arne De Boever

In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's Austerlitz. De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what he calls the 'aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage in today's planetary state of exception.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441102485

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States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel

Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald

By: Arne De Boever

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States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel

Martel, Eugenides, Coetzee, Sebald

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In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a “state of exception”: an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's Austerlitz. De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what he calls the 'aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage in today's planetary state of exception.

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Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

By: Arne De Boever

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Finance Fictions

Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis

By: Arne De Boever

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Realism and Psychosis in a Time of Economic Crisis

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New Materialist Literary Theory

Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene

By: Kerstin Howaldt,Kai Merten

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New Materialist Literary Theory

Critical Conceptions of Literature for the Anthropocene

By: Kerstin Howaldt,Kai Merten

This edited collection builds on recent strands in philosophy that promote a critical conceptual return to the material world outside human culture. Through the lens of literary analysis and theory, it conceptualizes the potential of New Materialism as a timely mode of critique toward the current human condition and its effect on literature and the present. Organized around the key New Materialist concepts of entanglement and speculation, the chapters by renowned literary scholars and theorists approach literary texts and theory from onto-epistemological and speculative realist perspectives. Both concepts critically bespeak our precarious relation to matter during the Anthropocene. Entanglement analyzes this human inference with the material environment and its consequences, while speculation makes palpable our cognitive limits in grasping these consequences and our continued obligation to try to do so. Literature emerges as a site where entanglement and speculation, as well as their alignment, are intensively presented and negotiated. In highlighting these connections, the chapters in this collection bring entanglement and speculation (theory) together to form a critical literary theory fit for the Anthropocene.

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1666929131

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Being Vulnerable

Being Vulnerable

François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought

François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought

Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism

Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism

Being Vulnerable

Being Vulnerable

Gilbert Simondon

Gilbert Simondon

Plastic Sovereignties

Plastic Sovereignties

Finance Fictions

Finance Fictions

François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought

François Jullien's Unexceptional Thought

States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel

States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel

States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel

States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel

Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel

Finance Fictions

Finance Fictions

New Materialist Literary Theory

New Materialist Literary Theory

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