scholarly journals How like a (Fig) Leaf

Tahiti ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynn Turner

In light of work by Donna Haraway, Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous, this paper weaves a poetic response to the Western ethnocentric mode of thought as that which cuts a once and forever line dividing nature from culture. That line elevates Man over all other creatures, indeed all other living things, and does so by means of a phallic imaginary deeply tied to Judaeo-Christian ontotheology – to shame, nudity and original sin. Through the figure of the fig leaf, the essay affirms the earthly and earthy field of the sexual as that which links rather than divides categories, disciplines and forms of life.

Somatechnics ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-38
Author(s):  
Michael O'Rourke ◽  
Kamillea Aghtan

This pair of texts, article and response – a performance poem of sorts – focuses on the sexual and textual erotics which circulate in the texts written by Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous for and about each other. It is based on Michael O'Rourke's ‘The Divivacities of Cixous and Derrida’, a keynote lecture delivered at the Bodies in Movement conference at Edinburgh in May of 2011 and Kamillea Aghtan's response to O'Rourke. It seeks to discuss the textual intimacies of Hélène Cixous, Jacques Derrida (and by reflection Michael O'Rourke and Kamillea Aghtan) and the various sensual bodies of text created between them. As O'Rourke enfolds his textual subjects, Aghtan repositions O'Rourke's conception of textual friendship and love in terms of her response and, by doing so, suggests a new kind of (un)balanced relationship in its writing, the creation of different amalgams and further bodies of text that are thoroughly contingent, multiplying and obstinately open-ended.


2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 238-262
Author(s):  
Virgil W. Brower

This article exploits a core defect in the phenomenology of sensation and self. Although phenomenology has made great strides in redeeming the body from cognitive solipsisms that often follow short-sighted readings of Descartes and Kant, it has not grappled with the specific kind of corporeal self-reflexivity that emerges in the oral sense of taste with the thoroughness it deserves. This path is illuminated by the works of Martin Luther, Jean-Luc Marion, and Jacques Derrida as they attempt to think through the specific phenomena accessible through the lips, tongue, and mouth. Their attempts are, in turn, supplemented with detours through Walter Benjamin, Hélène Cixous, and Friedrich Nietzsche. The paper draws attention to the German distinction between Geschmack and Kosten as well as the role taste may play in relation to faith, the call to love, justice, and messianism. The messiah of love and justice will have been that one who proclaims: taste the flesh.


2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (20) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Lock Farina

Publicada originalmente na coleção “La philosophie en effet”, da prestigiada editora Galilée, na França em 2015, com o título Demande. Philosophie, littérature, a coletânea de textos de Jean-Luc Nancy, inédita enquanto tal e organizada por Ginette Michaud, professora da Universidade de Montreal, chega ao Brasil devido à iniciativa em parceria entre a editora da UFSC e a editora Argos, da Unochapecó. Nancy (1940-), professor emérito da Universidade de Estrasburgo, é certamente um dos filósofos mais conceituados no universo acadêmico atual, ao lado de Alain Badiou, Hélène Cixous, Judith Butler, Giorgio Agamben e Jacques Rancière. Seu destaque se dá sobretudo em função das contribuições acerca do político e da democracia, da obra em conjunto com Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, de seus escritos sobre Jacques Derrida e da preocupação constante em relacionar a arte de maneira geral com o pensamento filosófico. Sua produção, entretanto, é ainda pouquíssimo traduzida no Brasil. Na tarefa de suprir essa falta, Demanda: Literatura e Filosofia (365 p.) reúne textos de 1977 a 2015, disponíveis até então somente em periódicos ou resultantes de conferências e entrevistas, dando mostras da trajetória do autor no que concerne o debate entre o aproveitamento da literatura e do modo singular (a singularidade para Nancy é sempre uma singularidade plural) com que ela convoca a filosofia para um pensamento conjunto, crítico e afectante a respeito da vida, da atividade política e dos sentidos nas suas concepções mais amplas.


PMLA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 130 (5) ◽  
pp. 1467-1475 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield

What happens when i watch a creature suffer or when i share in my dog's joy? what is the power of these emotions, what do they teach me about living with animals and engaging ethically with their differences? While these questions may still seem sentimental to some, they have become increasingly relevant to those who study animals. Emotions have made a remarkable comeback in recent animal literature and philosophy. Rehabilitated by a new wave of theorists, they have found their way into some of the most provocative contemporary reflections on animal ethics. Josephine Donovan, Jacques Derrida, Ralph Acampora, Donna Haraway, and others have all granted compassion theoretical pride of place. They share a critique of the rationalist bias of the justice-and-rights tradition and suggest that compassionate attention to animals is the “ground upon which theory about human treatment of animals should be constructed” (Donovan, “Attention” 174). For many such contemporary thinkers, then, compassion—a deeply affective way of sharing another's emotion—is the fundamental means of forging the ethical bond we have with nonhuman animals. Replacing the “calculable process” of current animal-rights theories with the emotional encounter of the other's living—and dying—reality, compassion offers a new understanding of responsibility and relationships (Wolfe, “Exposures” 19).


1995 ◽  
Vol 15 (44-45) ◽  
pp. 107-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Fox

This paper explores the perspectives which postmodernism and post- structuralism bring to an understanding of care, particularly in the writings of Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Hélène Cixous and Stephen White. It is suggested that care is paradoxical. On one hand it is a tech nology of surveillance which, as a consequence of the professionalisa tion of caring, constitutes the vigil. But although this technology is one of control and supplies the authority for profession care, it is also possible to recognise an alternative caring, which is about love, generosity, and a celebration of otherness. This gift of care seeks to enable the cared-for person, and resists the discourses of the vigil. The paper examines the issues raised for practitioners by this dual character of care.


2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 181-195
Author(s):  
Flavia Trocoli

Resumo Jacques Derrida, ao delinear as paixões de que padece a literatura, formula: “Não há essência nem substância da literatura: a literatura não é, não existe, não se demora na identidade de uma natureza.” Lendo fragmentos extraídos da obra de Hélène Cixous, colocarei à prova essa proposição para pensar se o insistir no Eu, sem conferir uma identidade a ele, o destrona de seus atributos, fazendo dele, como das próprias obras, um “objeto literário não identificável.” Como se “a linguagem fosse escutada pela primeira vez”, tanto o Eu quanto a escrita são figurados através de sobreposições e apagamentos de traços históricos e autobiográficos que fundam um lugar de terror e, ao mesmo tempo, de ressurreição, o que se poderia chamar de passagem à literatura. E não seria esse entrelaçamento entre a linguagem escutada pela primeira vez, evento e realidade psíquica aquilo que Derrida chamou de “hiperrealismo ficcional”?


Author(s):  
Verne Harris

Geneses, Genealogies, Genres, and Genius: The Secrets of the Archive is the lecture Jacques Derrida gave in 2003 at an event to honor Hélène Cixous and mark the donation of her archive to the National Library of France. The lecture was a moving tribute to Cixous (her corpus, her genius, her archive), but it was also Derrida's reading of Cixous' "secrets of the archive". This essay explores "the secrets" - those of Cixous, those of Derrida - along two primary lines of enquiry. On the one hand, the question of archival stakes - what stakes are at play in archive? On the other, the question of the work of archive. For both Cixous and Derrida the work of archive is an endless opening to what is being "othered" and a tireless importuning of a justice-to-come. The work of archive is justice. But what does that work look like? Is there a deconstructive praxis in archive shaped by the call to, and of, justice? What stranger emerges from an insistering of the familiar Derridean formulations?


2006 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-133
Author(s):  
Ginette Michaud

Notre étude s’inscrit dans le cadre du projet de recherche subventionné par le CRSH, « Entre philosophie et littérature : Jacques Derrida et Hélène Cixous, rapports croisés ». Comment l’écriture touche-t-elle le tableau ? Il s’agit d’examiner ici, dans une sorte de triptyque, trois façons d’« être », de se tenir, de se plier ou de se rendre à la Chose de la peinture, à la chose peinte. Des nombreux textes de Jean-Luc Nancy consacrés à l’art, nous retenons surtout sa Visitation (de la peinture chrétienne), Noli me tangere et Transcription, en nous attachant au « sens dessus dessous » produit par la methexis au sein de la représentation. D’Hélène Cixous, nous analysons Le tablier de Simon Hantaï. Annagrammes, où la question du commerce de l’écriture avec la peinture, de l’échange entre la lettre et le tableau (en l’occurrence, la toile Peinture [Écriture rose], de Simon Hantaï) est abordée dans une relation unique où advient « la transfiguration de Peinture en Écriture, d’Écriture en Peinture ». Quant à Jacques Derrida, nous le suivons dans l’atelier de Camilla Adami où, devant les grands singes de (ou en) peinture qui le toisent, il rêve en silence de la Chose et interroge, au-delà de toute appropriation, ces singes/signes de peinture, cette Chose expropriée par tout discours où s’échangent « le devenir-quelqu’un de quelque chose » et le « devenir quelque chose de quelqu’un » — autrement dit, la grande question philosophique du « qui » et du « quoi » comme celle de « la peinture même ». Cette façon d’entrecroiser les lectures nous permet ainsi de laisser ces textes, ensemble et séparément, se parler, ou mieux se toucher, comme les toiles accrochées ou tournées contre le mur dans l’atelier.


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