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Logocentrism
About: Logocentrism is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 258 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5846 citations.
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14 Oct 2013
Abstract: I shall speak about women's writing: about what it will do. Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies-for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text-as into the world and into history-by her own movement. The future must no longer be determined by the past. I do not deny that the effects of the past are still with us. But I refuse to strengthen them by repeating them, to confer upon them an irremovability the equivalent of destiny, to confuse the biological and the cultural. Anticipation is imperative. Since these reflections are taking shape in an area just on the point of being discovered, they necessarily bear the mark of our time-a time during which the new breaks away from the old, and, more precisely, the (feminine) new from the old (la nouvelle de l'ancien). Thus, as there are no grounds for establishing a discourse, but rather an arid millennial ground to break, what I say has at least two sides and two aims: to break up, to destroy; and to foresee the unforeseeable, to project. I write this as a woman, toward women. When I say "woman," I'm speaking of woman in her inevitable struggle against conventional man; and of a universal woman subject who must bring women to their senses
2,276 citations
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1 Jan 1983
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss readers and reading and deconstructive critical criticism. But their focus is on the reader and reading as a woman, and not on the critic.
Abstract: Preface to New Edition. Preface to First Edition Introduction Chapter 1: Readers and Reading 1. New Fortunes 2. Reading as a Woman 3. Stories of Reading Chapter 2: Deconstruction 1. Writing and Logocentrism 2. Meaning and Iterability 3. Grafts and Graft 4. Institutions and Inversions 5. Critical Consequences Chapter 3: Deconstructive Criticism Bibliography. Index
981 citations
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2 May 2014
TL;DR: Signs and Machines as discussed by the authors proposes a new theory capable of explaining how signs function in the economy, in power apparatuses, and in the production of subjectivity, showing how signs act as "sign-operators" that enter directly into material flows and into the functioning of machines.
Abstract: "Capital is a semiotic operator": this assertion by Flix Guattari is at the heart of Maurizio Lazzarato's Signs and Machines, which asks us to leave behind the logocentrism that still informs so many critical theories. Lazzarato calls instead for a new theory capable of explaining how signs function in the economy, in power apparatuses, and in the production of subjectivity. Moving beyond the dualism of signifier and signified, Signs and Machines shows how signs act as "sign-operators" that enter directly into material flows and into the functioning of machines. Money, the stock market, price differentials, algorithms, and scientific equations and formulas constitute semiotic "motors" that make capitalism's social and technical machines run, bypassing representation and consciousness to produce social subjections and semiotic enslavements. Lazzarato contrasts Deleuze and Guattari's complex semiotics with the political theories of Jacques Rancire, Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Paolo Virno, and Judith Butler, for whom language and the public space it opens still play a fundamental role. Lazzarato asks: What are the conditions necessary for political and existential rupture at a time when the production of subjectivity represents the primary and perhaps most important work of capitalism? What are the specific tools required to undo the industrial mass production of subjectivity undertaken by business and the state? What types of organization must we construct for a process of subjectivation that would allow us to escape the hold of social subjection and machinic enslavement? In addressing these questions, Signs and Machines takes on a task that is today more urgent than ever.
412 citations
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1 Jan 1991
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relationship between post-Nietzschean philosophy and philosophy as science, as metaphor, as metaphor, and as politics: Heidegger, contingency, and pragmatism.
Abstract: Acknowledgments Introduction: Pragmatism and post-Nietzschean philosophy Part I. Philosophy as Science, as Metaphor, and as Politics: Heidegger, contingency, and pragmatism Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the reification of language Heidegger, Kundera, and Dickens Part II. Deconstruction and Circumvention: Two meanings of 'logocentrism': a reply to Norris Is Derrida a transcendental philosophy? De Man and the American Cultural Left Part III. Freud and Moral Reflection Habermas and Lyotard on postmodernity Unger, Castoriadis, and the romance of a national future Moral identity and private autonomy: the case of Foucault Index of names.
314 citations
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1 Jan 1994
TL;DR: In this article, Mbiti's religious Ethnology is used to explore the role of reason in African experience and African philosophy, and the setting of Ethnophilosophy.
Abstract: Acknowledgments 1. Logocentrism and Emotivism: Two Systems in Struggle for Control of Identity 2. Tempels and the Setting of Ethnophilosophy 3. Systematic Ethnophilosophy 4. Language and Reality 5. Cultures Without Time? Mbiti's Religious Ethnology 6. Mysticism, Science, Philosophy, and Rationality: The Analytic Point of View 7. Excavating Africa in Western Discourse 8. "Tradition" and "Modernity": The Role of Reason Conclusion: Experience and African Philosophy Notes Bibliography Index
212 citations
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