Of Stigmatology

Punctuation As Experience

AvPeter Szendy

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics

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Beskrivning

What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the cinematic cuts that mark them off? Are we, like Chekhov's clerk, who dreams of being pursued by angry exclamation marks, or Scorsese's Jake LaMotta, bloodied by one violently edited fight after another, the products of punctuation—or as Peter Szendy asks us to think of it, punchuation? Of Stigmatology elaborates for the first time a general theory of punctuation. Beginning with punctuation marks in the common sense, Peter Szendy goes on to trace the effects of punctuation more broadly, arguing that looking and hearing are not passive acts of reception, but themselves punctuate the images and sounds they take in. Szendy reads an astonishing range of texts and traditions, from medical auscultation to literature (Chekhov, Sterne, Kafka), philosophy (Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida), psychoanalysis (Lacan), and film (Raging Bull, The Trial, Fight Club).Repeatedly, what Szendy finds in these works is a punctuation that marks experience itself, that seeks (and ultimately fails) to bind the subject to itself. This is the stigmatology of the punctuation mark on the page that structures texts from ancient to digital, as well as the punchuation of experience, as though at the hands of a boxer.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-01-09
Mått:150 x 226 x 13 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Verbal Arts: Studies in Poetics
Antal sidor:184
Förlag:Fordham University Press
ISBN:9780823278121
Översättare:Jan Plug

Utforska kategorier

Musikböcker inom Kultur
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Litteraturteori inom Skönlitteratur

Mer om författaren

Peter Szendy is David Herlihy Professor of Humanities and Comparative Literature at Brown University and musicological advisor for the concert programs at the Paris Philharmonie. His books include Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience; All Ears: The Aesthetics of Espionage; Apocalypse-Cinema: 2012 and Other Ends of the World; Kant in the Land of Extraterrestrials; Hits: Philosophy in the Jukebox; and Listen: A History of Our Ears..Jan Plug is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. Among his other translations is Peter Szendy's Of Stigmatology: Punctuation as Experience.

Recensioner i media

"To the now of the point, Heidegger opposes the ecstasy of time. For the past of the point, Deleuze substitutes becoming without history. Both, Peter Szendy objects, are but different ways of punctuating. Cuts, blows, silences, blanks: these stigmata are all irreducible, as are punctuation marks in a text. From ontology to linguistics, from learned treatise to comic book, the grace of this fascinating text brings being back to the infinity of its cut." -- -Catherine Malabou Kingston University "Peter Szendy's brilliant reflections on the punctuation of experience make for a magnificent composition: a new philosophy of the sensible focused on how one feels oneself feeling, and an investigation of 'how one makes a point' philosophically and emotively. Never before have exclamation points, dashes, interrogatives, full stops, and quotation marks been treated so existentially; never before has the musicality of existence been so keenly tied to its notation; never before has the distance between points been used so effectively as a measure of life-span. In the "pows!" and "blams" of comic-book blows, glimmers of political violence come into focus. This is an amazing work of philosophy, aesthetics, media, and critique!!!" -- -Emily Apter New York University

Innehållsförteckning

Stigmatology From the Rubrica to the Smiley, A Portable History The Point of (No) Monument, or Tristram's Cut (Un)pointings P.S.: On Restitching (Lacan vs. Derrida) Phrasing, Or the Holes in Meaning The Dotted Lines of Auscultation Monauralisms, Or the Bubble of Quotation Marks Punctum Saliens, or the Salient Point The Point of the Overcast Stitch Ekphrasis General Chatter Punctuation and Politics, Or the Dot Above the I Final Survey