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เหตุการณ์ 9/11 สะท้อนให้เห็นถึงการดารงอยู่ของเรื่องเล่าขนาดใหญ่ (metanarratives) ซึ่งยังมิได้ถูกปฏิเสธหรือล้มล้างลงแต่อย่างใด... more
This undergraduate dissertation from 2009 postulates that videogames are an exemplary postmodern medium, as per an understanding of postmondernism garnered from the writing of Jean-Francois Lyotard and Jean Baudrillard. It elaborates... more
"ABSTRACT: This study assumes the subject's pursuit of meaning is generally incapacitating and should be suspended. It aims to demonstrate how such a suspension is theoretically accomplished by utilizing Lacan's formulae of... more
Zeitgenössische philosophische Texte haben oftmals einen performativen Charakter, der gerade nicht als »Stil« zu bezeichnen, sondern ausdrücklich (mit-)gelesen werden muss, um die Aussage zu verstehen. Der Artikel zeichnet nicht nur... more
I argue that the philosophy of Jean-Francois Lyotard and the film "Brazil" are mutually enriching and illuminating when read in conjunction, particularly around issues of technocapitalism, private selfhood, nostalgia, and the concept of... more
-- Abstract: Introduction to the context of Wild Being in Fundamental Ontology within Continental Philosophy
-- Key Words: Wild Being, Fundamental Ontology, Kinds of Being, Meta-levels of Being
-- Key Words: Wild Being, Fundamental Ontology, Kinds of Being, Meta-levels of Being
"The French contemporary artist Pierre Huyghe enjoys international acclaim, witness the many one-person and group exhibitions in which his work has been featured, and the prizes he has been awarded. His workplace in New York City, where... more
Metaphern prägen das Nachdenken über Politik, indem sie einige Argumente als besonders plausibel nahelegen, andere dagegen in den Hintergrund der Aufmerksamkeit rücken. Im 20. Jahrhundert steigt eine Metapher in besonderer Weise zu einer... more
in: Is there a Judeo-Christian Tradition?, Ed: Anya Topolski and Emmanuel Nathan, in Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts, De Gruyter Press, 2016, pp. 225-240. full version:... more
El capital ha sustituido a Dios como organizador último de las es feras del discurso, pero ya no se trata de un suelo trascendente a todas ellas, que permita hilarías en un todo de sentidos, sino que las fragmenta y dispone un universo de... more
Comparing to figura and the figurative, the figural has a shorter history. In Discourse, Figure (1971), Jean-François Lyotard thoroughly elaborated on this notion. A decade later, Gilles Deleuze further developed it in The Logic of... more
In recent years, the claim of the unrepresentability of the Shoah has stirred vivid debates, especially following the strong positions taken by the French filmmaker Claude Lanzmann and author of Shoah (1986). This claim of... more
The author sketches a Lyotardian reading of John Cage's plant pieces from the mid-1970s. Given that both Jean-François Lyotard and Cage were concerned at the time with working through Marcel Duchamp's multifarious legacies, the author... more
John Ruskin (1819-1900) once described the terms objective and subjective as “the most objectionable words that were ever coined by the troublesomeness of metaphysicians.” He thought that thedivision created by these terms confuses how... more
Music improvisation is an act of human-becoming: of self-expression—an articulation of histories and memories that have molded its participants—and of exploration—a search for unimagined structures that break with the stale norms of... more
Paper published in the Avello Publishing Journal, v.1, n.1 (2011) with accompanying 2 1/2 minute film.
Detailed reading of the "Autumn Floods" section of the Zhuangzi, sandwiched between in depth analyses of two important sections of Zhuangzi ch. 2: the "Eight Virtues" and the Butterfly Dream. Argues that Zhuangzi proposes two models for... more
Il est bien connu que la référence à la pensée de Wittgenstein (aussi bien celle qui est développée dans le Tractatus que celle des Recherches philosophiques) travaille en surface et surtout en profondeur l'exposition du Différend de... more
Il presente file, titolo: Republicanismvs Geopoliticvs Fontes Origenes et Via, contiene testi e link di Massimo Morigi sull’estetizzazione della politica e sul ‘Repubblicanesimo geopolitico’. Il ‘Repubblicanesimo Geopolitico’ è una... more
One of the key claims in Jean-Francois Lyotard's "Discourse, Figure" is that the dialectical method (the backbone of Western philosophy) tends to obscure and hide all which is invisible, illegible and sensual. Lyotard's strategy in... more
Antigone est-elle vouée à ne pas exister en vue de la génération, en vue de fonder sa propre famille, parce qu’elle préfère se vouer d’abord à Œdipe, qu’elle accompagne à Colone, puis à Polynice dont elle honore la dépouille malgré... more
In this essay I bracket the formally approved UK definition of impact as “an effect on, change or benefit to the economy, society, culture, public policy or services, health, the environment or quality of life, beyond academia”. I do this... more
Uddrag fra bogen: Politikens Håndbøger: Fransk Filosofi, Engagement og Struktur, redigeret af Poul Lübke, (Danmark, Politikens Forlag A/S, 2004), pp. 286-298.
This dissertation examines the language turns inside Jean-François Lyotard’s oeuvre. We narrow down this research through a perspective of linguistics, semiotics, and philosophy of language, focusing mainly on his writings of the 1970s.... more
"In this current essay we will discuss the concept of "the Jews" and inquire about the question of the compounding-Hyphen found within the concept of "Judeo-Christian" in the work of Jean-François Lyotard. Let us wonder about the actual... more
Resumo O artigo propõe a análise de aspectos da exposição Les Immateriaux. Curada pelo filósofo Jean-François Lyotard em 1964, foi apresentada no Centre Georges Pompidou, em Paris, de 28 de março a 15 de julho de 1985. A mostra significou... more
Jeudi 22, vendredi 23, et samedi 24 septembre 2016 Bâtiment F, salle des Actes. Organisé par Pascale Gillot (François Rabelais/Tours), Elise Marrou (Paris Sorbonne Archives Husserl), Judith Revel (Paris Ouest Nanterre/Sophiapol). Dans le... more
The individual, a subject of law or a symbolic animal? Discomfort in the law. How can it be explained that the text concerning the prohibition of religious signs in the public sphere in France can be justified in the name of human rights... more
“(…) Internet è di quanto più postmoderno esista su questo pianeta. Il suo effetto più immediato in Occidente pare essere stato la nascita di una generazione che è maggiormente interessata ai social network che alla rivoluzione sociale”.