In Poetics of Deconstruction, Lynn Turner develops an intimate attention to independent films, art and the psychoanalyses by which they might make sense other than under continued license of the subject that calls himself man. Drawing extensively from Jacques Derrida's philosophy in precise dialogue with feminist thought, animal studies and posthumanism, this book explores the vulnerability of the living as rooted in non-oppositional differences. From abjection to mourning, to the speculative and the performative, it reposes concepts and buzzwords seemingly at home in feminist theory, visual culture and the humanities more broadly. Stepping away from the carno-phallogocentric legacies of the signifier and the dialectic, Poetics of Deconstruction asks you to welcome nonpower into politics, always sexual but no longer anchored in sacrifice.
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Chapter 1: In the Beginnings: Introducing Poetics of Deconstruction Chapter 2: The Animal Cure: inhaling the other in Dean Spanley Chapter 3: Raising Animals: between the basement and the kennel in The Woman Chapter 4: Speculations: gesture in Conceiving Ada and Absent Presence Chapter 5: Outlaws: towards a posthumanist feminine in Dancer in the Dark Chapter 6: ‘Unfamiliar Unconscious’: the performativity of Infinity Kisses Chapter 7: In Lieu of Conclusion: White God
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Lynn Turner’s exhilarating, elegant, and very important book overturns common conceptions about human exceptionalism, hospitality, the place accorded to the feminine, and animal intimacy. Turner shows how, at its ‘heart’, deconstruction entreats us to listen for the poetic rhythms that link the fundamental questions of life to the stereographic rhythms that speak to us from the heart of the other.
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Bringing Derrida’s philosophy into dialogue with continental feminist philosophy, this book rethinks key terms in the humanities through an exploration of deconstruction and animal studies.
Through a unique exploration of deconstruction and animal studies, this book invites a reconsideration of key terms across the humanities

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ISBN
9781350128590
Publisert
2020-10-15
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
494 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
224

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Biographical note

Lynn Turner is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (2017); co-author of Visual Cultures As… Recollection (2013); editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (2013) and an assistant editor of Derrida Today.