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| Universe City or the Risk of Posthumanism | ||
| 作者 | Weinstone, Ann Sydney (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| 卷期 | v.61 n.11 Section A |
| 出版日期 | 2000 |
| 出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.proquest.com/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | Stanford University |
| 指導教授 | Schnapp, Jeffrey T. |
| 畢業年度 | 2000 |
| 附註項 | 238p |
| 關鍵詞 | Universe City; Posthumanism; Ethics; Tantrism |
| 摘要 | Progressive posthumanism centers its thinking about ethics on the increase of capacitating differentiation. Deconstruction centralizes questions of indebtedness and responsibility. Each proceeds from concepts of difference and constitutes a critique of a humanist logic of elitism and exemption. I argue that in order to create the conditions for the emergence of a posthumanist, postdeconstructive ethics of both capacitation and responsibility, we must give up the demand that the inviolably or radically other do the work of ethics as such. Posthumanism's tethering of difference, and thus ethics, to human engagements with technology or the nonhuman has attenuated vocabularies for speaking of the relationship of a human self to a human other. I trace this problem as I see it precipitating in three of the sources for posthumanist thought: the work of Françisco Varela, Deleuze and Guattari, and Niklas Luhmann. I then engage with the thread of thinking about responsibility and indebtedness that runs from Levinas to Derrida and his interlocutors. Here as well, ethics must be guaranteed by what I argue is an untenable supposition of inviolable otherness. At significant points within posthumanist thought, Buddhism and Hinduism underwrite a celibate ethics of no contact. I suggest that more antinomian forms of Hindu Tantrism point both deconstruction and posthumanism toward a thinking of the self as a zone of undecidably possessed emanations. Instead of an ethics inaugurated by a differentiating cut or interruption, Tantrism suggests a syntax of vibration and stretching. As a minoritarian theory of “touchableness” as opposed to “untouchableness,” it posits a concept of otherness that can never be radical or inviolable. The “subject,” as an undecidable zone of relationality, becomes what I call an avatar body . This formulation has specific consequences for the question of what belongs to a self and demands an enlarged concept of responsibility while breaking the frame “individual.” Tantrism promotes the making of devotional gestures that sensitize “one” to the condition of always deriving from an elsewhere that is just as truly here. In the final chapter, I practice the ethical gestures I describe through a meditation on diaristic e-mail writing, friendship, and scholarship. |
| ISBN | 0493032886; 9780493032887 |
| 點閱次數 | 281 |
| 建檔日期 | 2005.09.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.03.25 |
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