A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture. In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, “Why is there something, rather than nothing?” Whitehead asks, “How is it that there is always something new?” In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical “constructivism” embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze. Kant, Whitehead, and Deleuze are not commonly grouped together, but the juxtaposition of them in Without Criteria helps to shed light on a variety of issues that are of concern to contemporary art and media practices.
Pellucid Paper is an interdisciplinary study of the materiality of Early Modern poetry and its relation to political power, memory and subject constitution. Informed by German Media theory and specifically the more recent developments of Cultural Techniques, Wickberg offers a fresh and imaginative take on Early Modern culture.
The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.
Nueva traducción de de la obra cumbre de Martin Heidegger "Ser y tiempo" (Sein und Zeit), publicada originalmente en 1927 en múltiples publicaciones. Esta edición contiene un nuevo epílogo del Traductor, una cronología de la vida y la obra de Heidegger, un índice filosófico de conceptos heideggerianos fundamentales y una guía terminológica de los existencialistas de los siglos XIX y XX. Esta traducción está diseñada para facilitar la lectura y la accesibilidad a la enigmática y densa filosofía de Heidegger. Los términos filosóficos complejos y específicos se traducen de la forma más literal posible y se han eliminado las notas académicas a pie de página para facilitar la lectura. Ser y Tiempo presenta un complejo discurso filosófico sobre la naturaleza del ser (Sein) y del tiempo (Zeit), centrándose en particular en el concepto temporal-existencialista de Dasein, término que combina las palabras alemanas para "ser" (sein) y "ahí" (da). Esta obra filosófica clásica examina la comprensión metafísica tradicional del ser, argumentando que esta comprensión, típicamente basada en la idea de una presencia constante, no da cuenta de las dimensiones temporales y existenciales del ser. Heidegger propone que la comprensión del ser requiere un análisis del Dasein, que se caracteriza no sólo por su existencia, sino también por su ser en el mundo y su existencia temporal. El concepto de Dasein es central en su argumentación, ya que subraya que el Dasein siempre está situado en un mundo y su comprensión del ser está determinada por su existencia temporal. Esta perspectiva desafía las nociones metafísicas tradicionales del ser como algo estático e inmutable, proponiendo en su lugar que el ser es fundamentalmente temporal y está conectado con la existencia y la comprensión humanas. Como sugiere el título, Heidegger ve la cuestión del Ser como indistinguible del Tiempo, argumentando que las concepciones newtonianas del tiempo como una serie de puntos del ahora son inadecuadas para comprender el ser del Dasein. Su Ontocronología sostiene que el análisis existencial y ontológico del Dasein revela un concepto más fundamental del tiempo, que es parte integrante de la estructura del propio Ser. El texto profundiza en la idea de "lo arrojado" y en otros temas existencialistas. El arrojo es una de las tres condiciones que significan la inmersión del Dasein en el mundo, donde ya se encuentra enredado en una red de relaciones y significados. Este "ser arrojado", combinado con el inherente ser-hacia-la-muerte del Dasein, subraya la condición existencial de los seres humanos, enmarcando su existencia como un compromiso continuo con su propia finitud y las posibilidades de su ser. Heidegger postula que la comprensión de la naturaleza del ser requiere un replanteamiento fundamental tanto del ser como del tiempo, afirmando dogmáticamente que la verdadera naturaleza del ser sólo puede captarse a través de la comprensión de la temporalidad que caracteriza la existencia del ser.
The first translation into English of 'Le Système colonial dévoilé', the first systematic critique of colonialism ever written from the perspective of a colonized subject.
"In this classic work of feminist political thought, Iris Marion Young challenges the prevailing reduction of social justice to distributive justice. The starting point for her critique is the experience and concerns of the new social movements that were created by marginal and excluded groups, including women, African Americans, and American Indians, as well as gays and lesbians. Young argues that by assuming a homogeneous public, democratic theorists fail to consider institutional arrangements for including people not culturally identified with white European male norms. Consequently, theorists do not adequately address the problems of an inclusive participatory framework. Basing her vision of the good society on the culturally plural networks of contemporary urban life, Young makes the case that normative theory and public policy should undermine group-based oppression by affirming rather than suppressing social group differences"--Provided by publisher.
This definitive edition of Columbus's account of the voyage presents the most accurate printed version of his journal available to date. Unfortunately both Columbus's original manuscript, presented to Ferdinand and Isabella along with other evidence of his discoveries, and a single complete copy have been lost for centuries. The primary surviving record of the voyage-part quotation, part summary of the complete copy-is a transcription made by Bartolome de las Casas in the 1530s. This new edition of the Las Casas manuscript presents its entire contents-including notes, insertions, and canceled text-more accurately, completely, and graphically than any other Spanish text published so far. In addition, the new translation, which strives for readability and accuracy, appears on pages facing the Spanish, encouraging on-the- spot comparisons of the translation with the original. Study of the work is further facilitated by extensive notes, documenting differences between the editors' transcription and translation and those of other transcribers and translators and summarizing current research and debates on unanswered current research and debates on unanswered questions concerning the voyage. In addition to being the only edition in which Spanish and English are presented side by side, this edition includes the only concordance ever prepared for the Diario. Awaited by scholars, this new edition will help reduce the guesswork that has long plagued the study of Columbus's voyage. It may shed light on a number of issues related to Columbus's navigational methods and the identity of his landing places, issues whose resolution depend, at least in part, on an accurate transcription of the Diario. Containing day-by-day accounts of the voyage and the first sighting of land, of the first encounters with the native populations and the first appraisals of his islands explored, and of a suspenseful return voyage to Spain, the Diario provides a fascinating and useful account to historians, geographers, anthropologists, sailors, students, and anyone else interested in the discovery-or in a very good sea story. Oliver Dunn received the PH.D. degree from Cornell University. He is Professor Emeritus in Purdue University and a longtime student of Spanish and early history of Spanish America. James E. Kelley, Jr., received the M.A. degree from American University. A mathematician and computer and management consultant by vocation, for the past twenty years he has studied the history of European cartography and navigation in late-medieval times. Both are members of the Society for the History of Discoveries and have written extensively on the history of navigation and on Columbus's first voyage, Although they remain unconvinced of its conclusions, both were consultants to the National geographic Society's 1986 effort to establish Samana Cay as the site of Columbus's first landing.
This text illuminates the relevance and importance of Heidegger’s thought today. The chapters address the modern living conditions of intense social transformation intertwined with the continuous and rapid development of technologies that redefine the borders between nations and cultures. Technology globalizes markets, customs, the exchange of information, and economic flows but also – as Heidegger reminds us – revolutionizes the way we relate to bodies, to life, and to earth, by way of introducing both unprecedented opportunities and great dangers.
