Against Abstraction

Author : Alberto Moreiras
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477319859
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Against Abstraction written by Alberto Moreiras and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, members of the philosophy department at the University of Madrid conducted an interview with Alberto Moreiras for the university’s digital archive. The resulting dialogues and the Spanish edition of this work, Marranismo e inscripción, o el abandono de la conciencia desdichada, are the basis for Against Abstraction, supplemented with an interview conducted for the Chilean journal Papel máquina. In these landmark conversations, Moreiras describes how, though he was initially committed to Latin American literary studies, he eventually transitioned to become an eminent scholar of critical theory, existential philosophy, and ultimately infrapolitics and posthegemony. Blending intellectual autobiography with a survey of Hispanism as practiced in universities in the United States (including the schisms in Latin American subaltern studies that eventually led to Moreiras’s departure from Duke University), these narratives read like a picaresque and a polemic on the symbolic power of scholars. Drawing on the concept of marranism (originally a term for Iberian Jews and Muslims forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages) to consider the situations and allegiances he has navigated over the years, Moreiras has produced a multifaceted self-portrait that will surely spark further discourse.

Author : Joan Kee
Publisher : Blum & Poe Press
ISBN 13 : 9780966350395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From All Sides written by Joan Kee and published by Blum & Poe Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition 'From All Sides: Tansaekhwa on Abstraction', September 13-November 8, 2014, Blum & Poe"--Page 167.

Author : Willis Doney
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429631960
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berkeley on Abstraction and Abstract Ideas written by Willis Doney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berkeley’s critique of abstract ideas in the Introduction to Principles of Human Knowledge has provoked a great deal of commentary of various sorts. This anthology, first published in 1989, presents a selection of historically important and philosophically interesting discussions on Berkeley’s theories.

Author : Janet Abbate
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421444372
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abstractions and Embodiments written by Janet Abbate and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthology of original historical essays examines how social relations are enacted in and through computing using the twin frameworks of abstraction and embodiment. The book highlights a wide range of understudied contexts and experiences, such as computing and disability, working mothers as technical innovators, race and community formation, and gaming behind the Iron Curtain"--

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004333215
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Idealization XI: Historical Studies on Abstraction and Idealization written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discussions about abstraction are so important and so profound that this topic can hardly be neglected. It has inevitably cropped up again in various periods of philosophical enquiry. Despite these ancient roots and after the great debate that characterised the empirical and rationalistic tradition, interest in the problem has unfortunately been absent in large measure from the mainstream of mathematical logic and analytic philosophy. It seems that there is a gap between the epistemological theorization, in which it is difficult to find new insights on the problem of abstraction, and the historical studies concerning the development of philosophical thought. Such studies, however, present a more fertile ground for such insights. Here the reader will find presented for the first time a collection of papers about the topic, considered from an historical point of view together with an awareness of the need for building a bridge between historical research and theoretical speculation. Accordingly the volume consists of both general overviews which sketch the signifcance and the fortunes of abstraction in science, philosophy and logic (the first part) and historical case studies which focus on abstraction in particular thinkers (the second part). This volume is of interest for both general philosophers and historians of philosophy.

Author : José L. Falguera
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030382427
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abstract Objects written by José L. Falguera and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the question “Do abstract objects exist?”, presenting new work from contributing authors across different branches of philosophy. The introduction overviews philosophical debate which considers: what objects qualify as abstract, what do we mean by the word "exist” and indeed, what evidence should count in favor or against the thesis that abstract objects exist. Through subsequent chapters readers will discover the ubiquity of abstract objects as each philosophical field is considered. Given the ubiquitous use of expressions that purportedly refer to abstract objects, we think that it is relevant to attend to the controversy between those who want to advocate the existence of abstract objects and those who stand against them. Contributions to this volume depict positions and debates that directly or indirectly involve taking one position or other about abstract objects of different kinds and categories. The volume provides a variety of samples of how positions for or against abstract objects can be used in different areas of philosophy in relation to different matters.

Author : Gean Moreno
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788730690
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Mind But Not From There written by Gean Moreno and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists and critics explore the concept of Real Abstraction to help understand contemporary cultural production In the Mind, But Not From There: Real Abstraction and Contemporary Art considers how the Marxian concept of Real Abstraction--originally developed by Alfred Sohn Rethel, and recently updated by Alberto Toscano--might help to define the economic, social, political, and cultural complexities of our contemporary moment. In doing so, this volume brings together noted contemporary artists, literary critics, curators, historians, and social theorists who connect the concept of Real Abstraction with contemporary cultural production. Theoretical and artistic contributions from Benjamin Noys, Paul Chan, Joao Enxuto and Erica Love, Marina Vishmidt, Sven Lütticken, and many others help to map out the relationship between political economy and artistic production in the realm of contemporary, globalized cultural exchange. This anthology places economic and social analyses alongside creative projects and visual essays to consider the many angles of contemporary art, and how inquiry into the the production of abstraction through material and social processes can be used to better understand, and hopefully change, the conditions under which art is made, seen, and circulated today. Published in collaboration with [NAME] publications.

Author : Mark Lawrence Rosenthal
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abstraction in the Twentieth Century written by Mark Lawrence Rosenthal and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1996 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exhibition: 2/9/-5/12/96, Distributed by Abrams.

Author : Steven Shaviro
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262261154
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Without Criteria written by Steven Shaviro and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012-08-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Roy T. Cook
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402042655
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction written by Roy T. Cook and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects together a number of important papers concerning both the method of abstraction generally and the use of particular abstraction principles to reconstruct central areas of mathematics along logicist lines. Attention is focused on extending the Neo-Fregean treatment to all of mathematics, with the reconstruction of real analysis from various cut- or cauchy-sequence-related abstraction principles and the reconstruction of set theory from various restricted versions of Basic Law V as case studies.