Vicki Kirby: Quantum Anthropologies

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In Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction’s implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of textuality and representation are specific to the domain of culture. Revisiting Derrida’s claim that there is “no outside of text,” Kirby argues that theories of cultural construction developed since the linguistic turn have inadvertently reproduced the very binaries they intended to question, such as those between nature and culture, matter and ideation, and fact and value. Through new readings of Derrida, Husserl, Saussure, Butler, Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty, Kirby exposes the limitations of theories that regard culture as a second-order system that cannot access-much less be-nature, body, and materiality. She suggests ways of reconceiving language and culture to enable a more materially implicated outcome, one that keeps alive the more counterintuitive and challenging aspects of poststructural criticism. By demonstrating how fields, including cybernetics, biology, forensics, mathematics, and physics, can be conceptualized in deconstructive terms, Kirby fundamentally rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science.

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Vicki Kirby

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: The Question of Supplementarity - A Quantum Problematic vii

Acknowledgments xiii

1. Anthropology Diffracted: Originary Humanicity 1

2. Just Figures?: Forensic Clairvoyance, Mathematics, and the Language Question 22

3. Enumerating Language: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics" 49

4. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? 68

5. (Con)founding "the Human": Rethinking the Incest taboo 89

6. Culpability and the Double-Cross: Irigaray with Merleau-Ponty 111

Notes 137

Works Cited 155

Index 163

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822350736
ISBN-10:	0822350734
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Kirby, Vicki
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	223 x 154 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Vicki Kirby
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.08.2011
Gewicht:	0,254 kg