Figuras del habla poética en el pensamiento contemporáneo

En el presente artículo reflexionamos sobre la pregunta por qué es hablar (y su vinculación con la poesía) en el pensamiento contemporáneo, especialmente desde algunas ideas de Giorgio Agamben, Jacques Derrida, Pascal Quignard, Michel Foucualt, Jean-Luc Nancy, entre otros. Al final de Infancia e historia, Agamben habla de dos mundos opuestos que se configuran desde la experiencia del habla (boca abierta/boca cerrada), punto desde cual proponemos reflexionar sobre algunas figuras clave: el habla de la boca cerrada en lo apofático (Derrida) y lo innombrable (Badiou) y el habla de la boca abierta en la glosolalia (Agamben) y la adoración (Nancy)

El archivo resiste

Paul De Man en "Resistencia a la teoría" sostiene que el lenguaje contiene factores que lo hacen resistir a su reducción a la cadena gramática y lógica que permite la extensión entre lenguaje, mundo no verbal y su cognición. La dimensión retórica impide al lenguaje ser la autoridad para el conocimiento fenoménico. Esta dimensión retórica se encuentra más explícitamente en la literatura, pero puede aparecer en cualquier acontecimiento verbal. Desde esta formulación pensamos el archivo como tropo que dificulta la cognición sobre lo fáctico, y abordamos las teorizaciones que Jacques Derrida y Didi-Huberman han llevado a cabo sobre el archivo

Escritura, hospitalidad y política

El texto presenta una hipótesis de lectura que identifica una tensión en la filosofía política de Jacques Derrida. En primer lugar, se puede mostrar la existencia de una política de la escritura en los textos del Derrida más joven. Esta política postula sin excusas una "economía de la violencia". En segundo lugar, en los textos más recientes se encuentra en Derrida una política de la hospitalidad. En estos textos existe una apuesta hacia la hospitalidad, hacia la apertura incondicional a lo otro. Entre estas dos posturas del autor se da una tensión, mostrar ese hiato es el objetivo del texto.

¿Aquí archivamos la memoria del movimiento estudiantil? : Valor e importancia del Archivo de la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (2008-2015)

El presente artículo pretende realizar un repaso crítico por el devenir del Archivo y Centro de Documentación de la Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (AFECH) con el objetivo de indagar su importancia para diversos actores y usuarios. Originado en 2008, su misión es rescatar, conservar, potenciar y difundir las memorias de uno de los organismos de representación estudiantil más longevos y trascendentes como agente social en sus 110 años de existencia: la FECH. De ahí su consideración como el primer archivo patrimonial del movimiento estudiantil chileno y el espacio que custodia su memoria. No obstante, pretendemos sondear hasta qué punto esta frase se queda en el slogan o alude a una realidad experimentada por las diferentes generaciones de "hijos de Bello". Así, nos preguntamos: ¿es necesario un archivo del movimiento estudiantil que, como esbozan algunos académicos, posee una memoria amnésica? Entonces, ¿cuál es el valor y el sentido del Archivo FECH? Para ensayar una respuesta y apreciar esta iniciativa en perspectiva histórica, realizaremos una genealogía en clave foucaultiana, proponiendo una lectura psicoanalítica del proceso de conformación de este repositorio. Vale decir, tal como plantea Jacques Derrida, como una lucha entre dos fuerzas: el Eros, la pulsión de archivo y la conservación, y el Tanatos, la destrucción constante

Notas sobre la propiedad y la desposesión, lo propio y lo inapropiado en La violación de Lucrecia

La violación de Lucrecia es un poema de Shakespeare que tiene por tema una leyenda vinculada con el fin de la monarquía en Roma (509 a.C.) y el consecuente establecimiento de la República. Nuestra reflexión sobre el poema partirá de considerar el modo en que se presentan y ausentan las decisiones que desencadenan los acontecimientos de la historia: la violación por parte de Tarquino y el suicidio por parte de Lucrecia. Al decidir, Lucrecia y Tarquino se enfrentan a problemáticas que atañen a la propiedad, y al dar y al tomar al otro y a sí. ¿Qué es lo que Lucrecia da?, ¿qué es lo que toma Tarquino?, ¿a quién pertenece Lucrecia?, ¿a quién su muerte? Nos proponemos aproximarnos a algunos pasajes del poema en los que consideramos quedan planteadas estas cuestiones, poniéndolos en diálogo con otras lecturas, especialmente problematizaciones acerca del "dar" y el "tomar" elaboradas por Jacques Derrida. El objetivo de la lectura es arribar a interrogantes que creen el espacio y el motivo para nuevas indagaciones

The Vulnerable Animals That Therefore We Are : (Non-)Human Animals in D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love

Central to animal studies is the question of words and how they are used in relation to wordless beings such as non-human animals. This issue is addressed by the writer D.H. Lawrence, and the focus of this thesis is the linguistic vulnerability of humans and non-humans in his novel Women in Love, a subject that will be explored with the help of the philosopher Jacques Derrida’s text The Animal That Therefore I Am. The argument is that Women in Love illustrates the human subjection to and constitution in language, which both enables human thinking and restricts the human ability to think without words. This linguistic vulnerability causes a similar vulnerability in non-human animals in two ways. First, humans tend to imagine others, including non-verbal animals, through words, a medium they exist outside of and therefore cannot be defined through. Second, humans are often unperceptive of non-linguistic means of expression and they therefore do not discern what non-human animals may be trying to communicate to them, which often enables humans to justify abuse against non-humans. In addition, the novel shows how this shared but unequal vulnerability can sometimes be dissolved through the likewise shared but equal physical vulnerability of all animals if a human is able to imagine the experiences of a non-human animal through their shared embodiment rather than through human language. Hence the essay shows the importance of recognizing the limitations of language and of being aware of how the symbolizing effect of words influences the human treatment of its others.

A Sham Delight Has No Exchange Value: Henri Lefebvre and the evolution of Bernard Tschumi's early architectural theory

Thesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2016-06

The history of theory

Do you see now why it feels so good to be a critical mind? Why critique, this most ambiguous pharmakon, has become such a potent euphoric drug? You are always right! When naïve believers are clinging forcefully to their objects ... you can turn all of those attachments into so many fetishes and humiliate all the believers by showing that it is nothing but their own projection, that you, yes you alone, can see. But as soon as naïve believers are thus inflated by some belief in their own importance, in their own projective capacity, you strike them by a second uppercut and humiliate them again, this time by showing that, whatever they think, their behavior is entirely determined by the action of powerful causalities coming from objective reality they don't see, but that you, yes you, the never sleeping critic, alone can see. Isn't this fabulous? Isn't it really worth going to graduate school to study critique?

Levinasian ethics and the representation of the other in international and cross-cultural management

In this paper, we seek to further the discussion, problematization and critique of west/east identity relations in ICM studies by considering the ethics of the relationship – an issue never far beneath the surface in discussions of Orientalism. In particular we seek to both examine and question the ethics of representation in relation to a critique of what has come to be known as international and cross-cultural management (ICM). To pursue such a discussion, we draw specifically on the ethical elaborations of Emmanuel Levinas as well as his chief interlocutors Jacques Derrida and Zygmunt Bauman. The value of this discussion, we propose, is that Levinas offers a philosophy that holds as its central concept the relationship between the self and Other as the primary ethical and pre-ontological relation. Levinas’ philosophy provides a means of extending the post-colonial critique of ICM, and ICM provides a context in which the Levinasian ethics can be brought to bear on a significant issue on contemporary business and management.

Deconstructing the Religious Archive and its Secular Component and its Relationship to Violence

The thesis argues for the inclusion of the study of religion within the public school curriculum. It argues that the whole division between “religious” and “secular” spaces and institutions is itself rooted in a specific religious tradition. Using the theories of Jacques Derrida, I argue that, unless the present process of globalization is tempered with alternative models of organizing that don’t include this secular/sacred division, the very process of Western globalization acts as a moral religion. Derrida calls this process “globalatinization,” the imposition of Western defined institutions upon other cultures. The process creates a type of religious violence through act of imposing notions of “secular/public” and “sacred/private.” Drawing from Mark Juergensmeyer’s theory of religious violence, and Derrida’s and Foucault’s understanding of discursive formations, I argue that religious studies should enter this “secular/public” space in the form of educating about the world’s religions. Such education would go a long way in preventing the demonization of the “other” through promoting empathy, understanding, and respect for “other” traditions. Finally, education would provide a needed self-critique of the dividing of “secular/sacred” in contemporary Western life.

O gauche: poética da travessia entre Renato Russo e Carlos Drummond de Andrade

This dissertation, called “The gauche (O gauche): the poetry of crossing between Renato Russo and Carlos Drummond de Andrade”, discusses on the problematic subjection of the gauche which brings Drummond’s poetry into Renato Russo’s singularizing one, emphasizing such subjection and seeking to find the tension which dwells between both, pointing out at the poet and the songwriter the dislocations, the non-territorial process and the repetition of the difference. Thus, the act, the esthetics and the policy of writing do move from a textual, inter-textual character to a range of references, perceptions, dislocations, establishing within those spaces, elements residing in poetical cartographies which relate both writers on this rizomatic crossing for the writing of both is bound by desire and minorities. To do so, we chose, as research basis, authors such as Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Félix Guattari, Jacques Ranciére, Michel Foucault, Maurice Blanchot, Julia Kristeva, Linda Hutcheon, among others who can wander through the established relations of this work.Thus, it constitutes the theoretical and discussion corpus responding to the qualitative implicit requirements of this dissertation. The literary body of this research has a selection of lyrics by Renato Russo and poems by Carlos Drummond presented as subjectivity corpus embracing ideas, affects, perceptions and images

Cold War Legacies: Systems, Theory, Aesthetics

From futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary fiction and art, this book shows that we are now living in a world imagined and engineered during the Cold War. Drawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society, and culture.