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ماتریالیسم دیالکتیکی استفان کیپفِر برگردان: آیدین ترکمه پس از گذشتِ دو سال، ترجمهی کتاب ماتریالیسم دیالکتیکی نوشتهی آنری لوفور به چاپ دوم رسید. به همین بهانه، این متن، که پیشگفتاری است که استفان کیپفر بر ترجمهی انگلیسی کتاب ماتریالیسم... more
By tracing the function of totality in French post-structuralist thought, particularly that of Jacques Derrida and Jean-François Lyotard, this study will demonstrate how in the postmodern era a new stability has been found within the... more
This book argues that, in the wake of the postmodern, contemporary culture becomes once again concerned with totality, the main focal point of expression for this being concepts of the global. It uncovers predominant ways of... more
Einleitung: Thema, Fragestellung, Gliederung der Arbeit Die Untersuchung der Kombinationen von Schrift und Bild eröffnet ein vielschichtiges Themengebiet und ein sehr weitreichendes Forschungsfeld. Trotz der langen Tradition stellt die... more
Im vorliegenden Artikel wird dem Vorwurf des Essentialismus der Marxschen Entfremdungstheorie nachgegangen und dafür die paradigmatischen Marx-Kritiken von Heinrich, Jaeggi und Rosa nachgezeichnet (1). Ausgehend davon wird gezeigt, dass... more
‘Herbert Marcuse and the Legacy of One Dimensional Man’, International Herbert Marcuse Society Conference, https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/rbml/files/2014/09/One-Dimensional-Man-at-Fifty-Conference-Program1.pdf
This paper sets out the implicit and explicit theories of "totality" in the work of György Lukács and Fredric Jameson. It begins by asking to which problem the proletariat is a solution in the work of the early Lukács. It suggests that... more
El concepto de totalidad tal como lo concibe Spinoza nos enfrenta a una suerte de tensión o paradoja. Por un lado, su filosofía se centra en la Substancia única, causa de todo y en la cual todo está contenido, aquello fuera de lo cual no... more
Goffmanowska koncepcja instytucji totalnych stępiła się i rodzi dziś więcej py-tań, niż udziela odpowiedzi. Z perspektywy ponad pięćdziesięciu lat od wydania Asylums, narosło wokół pracy wiele nieporozumień, a defi nicja stała się rozmyta... more
In what way was there a "Hippie Modernism," as the Walker Art Center thought-provokingly framed its 2015 exhibition? Modernism implied that human actions can create a better world, and this demanded an understanding of the whole in which... more
One of the main purposes of architecture lies in finding ‘place’ where humans can inhabit. Although the human being is the principal place, they need a home where they can shelter their soul and body, protect themselves from weather,... more
[...] The Differenzschrift might be read as an announcement of there being a difference between the philosophies of Fichte and Schelling. That such a difference would have to be announced suggests that a difference between the two was... more
What is space? Why is it important? So much has been written about space from such diverse points of view that it is impossible here to be comprehensive or even representative, if I may borrow Neil Smith’s words (Smith, 2008). However, I... more
During the 20th century the theme of fragmentation, symbol of modernity, is linked with the transformation of the concept of totality that has started since romanticism. Out of this reflection new strategies of figurations are generated.... more
The paper aims to restitute the movement made by Louis Althusser for the purpose of thinking a non-Hegelian Marxism. This bet, not only theoretic, but political, means a detour by Baruch Spinoza, in order to rescue his thought. For this,... more
Der Ausbruch aus dem Bestehenden kann nur gelingen, indem man aus der Gesellschaft, wie sie ist, das ganz andere entwickelt, sie also immanent kritisiert und bestimmt negiert. Dafür braucht es jedoch den Anstoß, dass das Gegebene... more
Dans ce texte je prends en compte les critiques que Deschamps adresse à l'idée spinozienne d'une substance unique. En un premier moment, j'analyse la "Réfutation simple et courte du système de Spinoza" et les occurrences du Vrai système... more
I take this opportunity to address the imaginative-power of “Another Materialist Rhetoric,” by Ronald W. Greene, to set aside, as much as possible, the usual sense-making grids within which its impact is typically understood, and read it... more
"Tabla de contenidos 1. Poder, orden político y la cuestión democrática. 2. Expansividad de lo social, recodificación de lo político. 3. Algo sobre heterodoxia e incertidumbre en el debate democrático (a propósito de una intervención... more
Con una Prefazione di Fredric Jameson
Readers are advised that an up-to-date discussion of the author's fundamental thesis (’The Idea’), on the origin, operation, and destiny of the World, is now found at the top of the main page under the rubric, Thematic Evolution and... more
Este artigo é resultado, inicialmente, de uma classificação temática da Geografia brasileira. A diversidade temática revelada nesse levantamento inicial permitiu na continuidade uma reflexão sobre fragmentação e totalidade/totalização em... more
A "critique of power" has become necessary—not simply in order to determine power’s distribution, or work out its implications for subjects or nations, agents or patients; but because power seems to have taken on a new face, the face of... more
This paper was given at the 13th International Deleuze and Guattari Studies Conference (“Territorialities, Exterritorialities, Non-Territorialities”). The conference took place as an online event from 5–7 July 2021.
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Hegel saw modern philosophy as internally divided between its metaphysics and epistemology, on the one hand, and its political philosophy, on the other. Descartes had developed a metaphysics of totality to ground the epistemological... more
The essay analyses the paradigm shift in the geopolitical and geographical imagination at the beginning of the 20th century. In particular, developing some suggestions from Focault, it reconstructs throught the main geopolitical workd ans... more
This article presents a theoretical discussion about the heuristic value of the descriptive instruments of the city in the research on situated ambiances, which is based on a reflection on the urban section and the epistemological model... more
El artículo aborda el concepto filosófico de mundo a partir de su determinación como totalidad y objeto de experiencia en la fenomenología de Husserl. El análisis gira en torno a la posibilidad de sostener estas caracterizaciones que,... more
As long as we will continue to live in a capitalist society, the thought of Georg Lukács will continue to be fertilizing. It may be integrated, extended, dialectically overcome (i.e., overcome in the maintaining of it), but it cannot be... more
Keynote speech at the Utopian Studies Society (Europe) 2019: Part 1: Where Are We in the Capitalocene; Part 2. What Existential Antiutopia Means for Us;