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Czy można pogodzić dekonstrukcję z hermeneutyką?

Author(s): Patryk Szaj / Language(s): Polish Issue: 05/2014

The article attempts to reinterpret the ties between Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction and the hermeneutic philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Although research has traditionally emphasized the antagonisms between these two thinkers, a comparative reading of their philosophical dialogue reveals that hermeneutics and deconstruction have a common source and aims: This is their anti-metaphysical attitude, openness to otherness, praise of democracy, and desire for social justice. From this perspective, deconstruction is seen not as an anti-hermeneutics, but as hermeneutics taken to its extremes, exploiting the emancipatory and political potential of their postulates for sympathetically listening to that which is Other, and the continuous reordering of existence.

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Ethos różnicy. Dekonstrukcja, etyczna lektura i literatura współczesna

Author(s): Michał Koza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 05/2014

The article addresses the issue of the continued relevance of the deconstructive practice of ethical and political reading in the context of Polish contemporary literature. In view of allegations of the anachronism of Jacques Derrida’s thought, the article indicates that the work of the author of Politics of Friendship has only been partially assimilated, and proposes reading deconstruction from an ethical and political standpoint. This perspective helps to avoid the danger of eliminating ethical and (especially) political questions from postmodern literary studies or transforming them into a discourse of endless reflections on otherness that lacks agency and can easily fall victim to ideology.

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Dekonstrukcji życie po życiu

Author(s): Piotr Sadzik / Language(s): Polish Issue: 05/2014

In the text, I briefly outline the problems encountered in Poland in the work of Jacques Derrida, beginning with its not entirely accurate identification with poststructuralism, through the reduction of deconstruction – both in terms of its critical reception and in translation – to the philosopher’s earliest works. Deconstruction is not, despite appearances, merely a classic concept now relegated to the junk heap of literary theory, but remains a relevant tool that can be used in the context of contemporary socio-political issues. Outside of a few notable exceptions, the three main (fundamentally interrelated) problem areas characteristic of the late Derrida – ethics, politics, and theology – have only been dealt with to minimal degree in Poland. Therefore, out of necessity this rough sketch also serves to demonstrate the glaring deficiencies in the Polish reception of this philosopher, and the (occasional) interpretative abuses committed by its opponents.

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Ostateczna de(kon)strukcja. Nuklearna apokalipsa Derridy

Author(s): Iwona Boruszkowska,Michał Koza / Language(s): Polish Issue: 05/2014

The essay analyses one of two articles by Jacques Derrida dealing with nuclear apocalypse: "No Apocalypse, Not Now (Full Speed Ahead, Missiles Seven, Seven missives)". From out of the catastrophic sentiments of the modern day, he built an apocalyptic discourse and a nuclear criticism. In order to describe these phenomena, he drew upon the historiosophy of Giambattista Vico, the philosophy of Gianni Vattimo, and the ideas of Susan Sontag and J. D. Caputo. At the time Derrida was working on this critical nuclear project, it certainly offered more promising prospects than it does today, when many alternative or overlapping “final” visions of the world are competing for dominance. It therefore seems that we should rather speak of an apocalyptic criticism.

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Artikulacije tijela i tjelesnosti u filmu

Author(s): Krunoslav Lučić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 03/139/2015

The paper elaborates different articulations of the cinematic body and corporeality. Figure of body and the concept of corporeality can be comprehended in two different ways: as a film “corporeality” or as a “corporeality” in film, i.e. as a materiality of the film medium that is technologically determined and would otherwise be impossible, or as a materiality of the key film figures which are realized there in different forms. Also, the paper points out to the connection between the spectator’s body and the tactile image as articulated in the phenomenological approaches to cinema. In this context the paper explores the relationship between these three concepts focusing on diverse ways of representing the body in the genre, style and history specific film works. The focus is placed on the mechanics of body figures in American silent film comedy, attractions of the early silent film and on the representation of mostly woman’s, but also man’s body in the fictional works of the classical film style.

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Criticându-l pe Bourdieu în mod pragmatic

Author(s): Nicolas Maslowski / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 03/2014

This article tries to sum up some elements of the critic of the Bourdieu’s critical theories done by the representatives of one current in the French sociology – the pragmatic sociology. Among other things,this current criticises the privileged position in Bourdieu’s sociology of the sociologist himself. Thanks to the reflexivity, he is able to liberate himself from the illusio. For the pragmatic, the capacity to criticise is distributed among the citizens and makes sense. Instead of proposing a critical sociology, we should consider to explain sociologically the social critic of usual and unusual actors. Another critic is the determinism of its structural explanation. The society, the social forces, the structural explanation are explaining everything. And everything can be translated in terms of fields, habitus, illusion, structure. The social forces are deciding about everything, according to Bourdieu. But they are not more visible and scientific than God’s hand, when we take them for granted. We have to listen to the actors to understand their actions, even if their beliefs are different than the ones of the social scientist. The actors and their competences should be taken seriously, and they have the feeling that it is not the case in Bourdieu’s sociology.

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Опит за разглеждане на менталните болести през въпроса за същността при Фотий

Author(s): Katerina Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 22/2016

The mental illnesses, their development and their consequences have been a subject of keen interest from ancient times until this day. This text provides us the opportunity to take a look at this matter through the perspective of the concept of essence through explication of some views on it. We would elaborate several of the beginning with the teaching of the Church Fathers and ending with the modern psychoanalytic view on illnesses of the soul and their relationship to the essence concept. The work examines four main views on the essence and on the problem how and to what extent the essence itself could be affected by mental illness. Of particular importance to the study is Aristotle's concept „mερική ουσία“, as well as the criticism on that view provided by Photios I of Constantinople.Taking into considerations the views of both Aristotle and Photios the paper examines the construction and the deconstruction of the subject through the link between the mental illness and the essence.

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Disaggregating Territories: Literature, Emancipation, and Resistance

Author(s): Vladimir Biti / Language(s): English Issue: 3-4/2014

This article focuses on the implementation of literature for the democratic opening of the human being-in-common in the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière. Deleuze and Guattari advocate a quasi-traumatized, “animally” disfigured discourse that testifies to the impossibility of bearing witness to the unpredictable whirl of becoming, not only in philosophical but also in literary writing. Kafka exemplarily blurred the boundaries between his representing and represented subjects, drawing them into an unrestrained field of immanence. It is through such persistent revivifying of polyphony that his minor literature unleashed the suppressed creativity of major literature and language. It subverted literary language from within its identity, deterritorializing its monolingual molecules and pushing its subjects beyond the politically acknowledged threshold of representation. By invading the subject’s speech, action, and behavior, minor literature revolutionizes its agency. In Rancière’s work, political regulation of the subject from above is the main target of oppositional literary deregulation from below. For both Deleuze and Rancière, literary politics consists of the disarticulation of the politically authorized selection of sensations by an unpredictable revolutionary assemblage that escapes it. Now oriented inwards, toward the subject’s perception apparatus, instead of outwards toward other political subjects as before, revolutionary politics in Deleuze’s and Rancière’s rendering deactivates the agency, and departs from an inarticulate molecular area excluded from the scope of its activity. Despite undeniable divergences between their thoughts, this paradoxical “action through non-action” connects their conceptualizations of literature. However, as the genealogy of the messianic tradition has shown, the deactivation of majoritarian agencies does not merely achieve emancipating effects; it simultaneously empowers the minoritarian assemblage introduced in the place of agencies. As a result, the initially democratic assemblage suddenly resurfaces as the major agency of revolutionary terror. I argue that placing literature at the service of the allegedly egalitarian force of negation entertains this risk in both philosophies.

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Smrt u izgnanstvu. Pisanje kao pisanje-postajanje

Author(s): Sanja Šakić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 2/2014

The paper develops a literary theoretical framework for discussing the relationship between literature and exile, by asserting that discussing exile in literature always calls into question historical and political reality which, as a consequence, treats a given literary text as its product. The first part of the paper critically examines famous assertions by Said, Adorno and Brodsky in order to consider the topos of presumed “exile literature”. The second part focuses on Deleuze’s and Guattari’s term of “minority literature” and Blanchot’s definition of writing as a nexus between exile, death and writing. The third part offers the interpretation of the relationship between literature and exile unburdened by historical facts since the presumption is that writing itself is exile and that exile is writing: the writer is always in exile because the act of writing implies the loss of identity. Finally, if we can talk about exile in a text, it is only in a sense that writing implies exile (this, in turn, gives writing “the identity” which it does not have). The final part offers an analysis of selected prose works by David Albahari, which suggests that what is at first glance detected as exile in literature is denied by itself in the act of writing.

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Nemogući zahtjev: očuvati leš teksta

Author(s): Ivan Drenjančević / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1/2014

The aim of this paper is to analytically approach a posthumously published poem by Tin Ujević entitled Protect My Respected Corpse. After a brief review of the current readings (Pavletić), the poem is close-read as a text on corporeality, materiality of representation, and the body, which necessarily transforms the poem into something other than what it is. Given Ujević’s interest in the physicality of representation, this paper draws on the insights of those authors who discuss it in different ways (M. Blanchot, J. Derrida, J. Lacan, M. Merleau-Ponty). Analysed in this way, the poem becomes an ironic comment on the limits of interpretation, and the surgeon-critic who, with surgical precision, mutilates and builds the text, reads into the poem new problems just to solve them himself/herself, in order to silence deadness, openness and ambiguity within the text. The proposed analysis of the poem is based on juxtaposing the text and its interpretation, the diffuse subject and its representations, the living body and the corpse.

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Teorijski otpori, čitanje i san o Irminoj injekciji

Author(s): Andrea Milanko / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 3-4/2013

In this paper, the author takes up Freud’s analysis of the so-called dream of Irma’s injection to be an example par excellence of Freud’s dream analysis. The analysis of this specific dream-work is crucial for understanding genealogy that is made of various contested readings between feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, on the one hand, and deconstruction, on the other. Freud’s analysis and its impact on reading procedures outside psychoanalytic interests are being examined in order to gain insight into how they contribute to the politics of reading literary texts. Thus, the discussion will range from Freud and Lacan to Felman and Derrida.

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Nehotični postmodernizam Jeana Echenoza

Author(s): Marinko Koščec / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2013

Although the novelist Jean Echenoz rejects the postmodernist label, the study aims to demonstrate that his writing relies on numerous characteristics of postmodern poetics, and that it stages the key symptoms of the postmodern epoch. The convergence of the narrative and stylistic techniques with the referential and the ontological dimensions of the text are examined in the author’s ironic or parodic approach to the traditional prose forms and modernist goals, in his playful treatment of the linguistic material, events and characters. Special attention is dedicated to the role and depiction of space, human body and some items of paradigmatic value for the world of technology and spectacle. Postmodernist characteristics are also considered in the cinematographic aspects of Echenoz’s writing, in its metanarrative and autoreferential accents.

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Prisila ponavljanja s onu stranu Freuda

Author(s): Andrea Milanko / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 01/141/2016

It is well known that the Lacan–Derrida strife begins with the Seminar on the “Purloined Letter”, but a more thorough genealogy of dispute over valid interpretations of Freud’s legacy has widely been neglected. Freud’s speculative text Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) is ambivalent in that radical new terms (death drive, repetition compulsion, economic principle in psychic apparatus) are introduced while being contradicted in Freud’s elaboration. This interpretative dissonance is reconciled by Lacan’s interventions, i.e. either by new distinctions into old terms (Trieb vs. Instinkt), or by entirely new terms (l’automatisme de répétition, symbolic and imaginary order). Derrida makes a claim to be responding to the Beyond the Pleasure Principle without imprisoning it in a single and unified interpretation. His reading renders Freud’s text close to fiction and deconstruction, which also represents a form of resistance to Lacanian institutionalisation of Freud.

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TRANZICIJSKE REKONFIGURACIJE BOŠNJAČKOG IDENTITETA U ROMANU “PAUČINA” SAMEDINA KADIĆA

Author(s): Vedad Spahić / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 65/2016

We here analysed recent configurations of Bosniak identity in Samedin Kadić’s novel Paučina (Cobweb), comprehending identity as a dynamic category, that is as an effect of a web ofconflicting discursive regimes. The novel, as a whole, is dedicated to this thematic complex, but the mentioned dynamics is clearly evident in a chain of literary-effective, fragmented micro-units, which are offered in the form of mise en abyme, as a kind of keys for inner reading of the novel. Kadić takes Islam as the central component of identity construction, conceived as per solar model that makes the whole novel function as a sort of astrolabe that scans the entire collectivity, but also various individual ‘bodies’ (personalities) and establishes varying parameters – distance from the centre, angle, size, shape, and changes of orbital path. In all this the author tries to ensure that the centre itself, however indisputable it is, does not remain privileged by scholastic protectionism of any kind nor exempted from critical views and questionings, moreover, for Kadić, Islam is the idea which requires perpetual confirmation, in all the circumstances and in all possible conventional and avant-garde ways. Aware of his own subjective position, the author gives a detailed deconstruction of traditional identity metanarrative.

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The Weeping Woman in the Graphic Memoir: A Derridean Inquiry into the Traces/Trait(s) of “Self”

Author(s): Noelle Leslie Cruz / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2016

In this paper, I examine how women graphic memoirists – Marjane Satrapi, Alison Bechdel, and Roz Chast in particular – attempt to draw that which remains fleeting, absent, and abyssal: the so-called “self.” I thus extend Jacques Derrida’s critique of what he has called the “metaphysics of presence” in philosophy to autobiographical comics, a popular medium that is heavily prefigured by his analysis of the self-portrait as a ruin. I believe this endeavor will help fill the gap in studies about the gendered aspects of Derrida’s work Memoirs of the Blind, as well as the potential of autobiographical comics to illuminate philosophical issues concerning the self. Finally, through my analysis of women’s graphic narratives, I hope to point to the possibility of a larger project, that of a feminist Derridean critique of sequential art.

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Teatar individuacije: pomak u fazi i riješenost kod Simondona i Heideggera

Author(s): Bernard Stiegler / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2016

Dobro znamo da je Heidegger rekao kako je vrijeme istinsko načelo individuacije, a Simondon je odgovorio da ne postoji načelo individuacije, već proces individuacije. Nakon čitanja Bitka i vremena koje sam predložio, rekao sam da je koncepcija o primarnoj retenciji, koju je 1905. otkrio Husserl, jedna od najvažnijih koncepcija koja je omogućila napredak filozofije u 20. stoljeću, premda je najčešće zapostavljena i pogrešno shvaćena, pa i kod Heideggera.

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O dodiru

Author(s): Mladen Dolar / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 1-2/2016

Jacques Lacan, čovjek mnogih bons mots, jednom je u raspravi o pitanju ≫čime čovjek misli≪ ustvrdio da čovjek prije svega misli svojim nogama, budući da upravo njima dotiče tlo. Dosjetka postavlja zajedno u jednu sintagmu i na istu razinu dodir i mišljenje i upravo ću taj čvor na ovom mjestu pokušati ≫dotaknuti≪. No, zajedničko mjesto, locus communis, mišljenja i dodira nipošto nije nešto jednostavno. Možemo li misliti dodirom, možemo li mišljenjem dotaknuti?

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Razbijanje Napoleonovskoga kôda

Author(s): Žarko Paić / Language(s): Croatian Issue: 20/2015

Je li Europska unija kakvu da nas poznajemo još uopće država? Na ovo pitanje moguće je odgovoriti samo ako postoji suglasnost o tome što je bit države u vremenu iščeznuća moderne teritorijalne suverenosti. Povijest se, naime, u metafizičkome smislu nikad ne razmatra izvan okvira zapadnjačke ideje cjeline bitka, Boga, čovjeka i svijeta.

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Book Review

Author(s): Utku Özmakas / Language(s): English Issue: 47/2016

Mark G. E. Kelly, The Political Philosophy of Michel Foucault, New York and London: Routledge, 2009, 186 pp.

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Crystalline Memories: Another Consciousness, Another Sensibility

Author(s): Lamija Kosović / Language(s): English Issue: 20/2016

This essay is an exploratory investigation into the aesthetics of force and sensation, and an experimental “pragmatics of becoming” in The Beast Trilogy, a science-fiction graphic novel trilogy of Enki Bilal, a French-Yugoslav artist. The study is, first, inclined to transgress the rigid boundaries of logics of identity in favor of attuning to the processes that unfold new and affirmative approaches to the production of subjectivity-the approaches that consist of the processual dynamics of human and non-human bodies in “coagulation” or assemblage with each other. Next, it explores the graphic novels and Enki Bilal’s art as a pure being of sensation, a body that performs, a material capture, that is, a perception-consciousness formation, in which way contributes to the aesthetics of sensation. In making a plea for the non-unitary, multiple and complex subject of an intruder and in exploring Bilal’s capturing of the purely passive, receptive force of sensation on the aesthetic plane of composition, this essay embraces the embodied materialism, Irigaray’s sensible transcendental and Deleuze’s transcendental empiricism. In keeping with Deleuze and Guattari’s diagram of the landscape of subjectivity and the particular emphasis on their “affective forces” of materiality, and starting with the perspective informed by contemporary feminist writers, the paper engages with the notions of sensation, difference, time, memories, love, violence and otherness to suggest that his art is the machine of expression that embodies sensation, and extends it beyond, through a process that entails abandoning a dogmatic image of thought for an affective production of intruder assemblages and imperceptible becoming-x that further foster the intruder consciousness reconfigured through corporeality, and thus fabrication of a creative symbiosis of reason and the imagination premised on sensation.

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