Turns and Revolutions: On the Convulsive Present

IF 0.2 4区 文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM
Zachary Tavlin
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Abstract:In this essay I consider the ubiquitous figure of thinking’s turn and a historical time in which turns happen beside, inside, or astride other turns like a complex series of epicycles, each vying for historiographical primacy. I argue that the age of the turn forces intellectual historians not simply to choose one turn that would successfully stand in for contemporary inquiry tout court but to think the turn itself, to try to understand what generates and sustains the figure or shape of thinking as turning. I hypothesize that the time in which thinking takes place is also figured and traced out, by the manifestos and representatives of individual turns, as a local convulsion rather than a global rotation or revolutionary breach. In what follows I turn to and fro to glance at several possible starting points for an adequate theorization of the turn and our “convulsive” present, moving from an investigation into thinking and turning in the work of Martin Heidegger to our contemporary moment, in which theorists attempt to suture the particular concepts and objects they wish to “take seriously” to the movements inherent in thought itself. I end speculatively, offering a reading of “the turn” shot through with social and (even) erotic implications.
转折与革命:论抽搐的当下
摘要:在这篇文章中,我考虑了思维转向的普遍形象,以及一个历史时期,在这个历史时期,转向发生在其他转向的旁边、内部或横跨其他转向,就像一系列复杂的史诗,每一个都在争夺历史的首要地位。我认为,转向的时代迫使知识历史学家不仅要选择一个能成功地代表当代调查法庭的转向,还要思考转向本身,试图理解是什么产生和维持了作为转向的思维图形或形状。我假设,思想发生的时间也被宣言和个人转折的代表描绘和追踪为局部动荡,而不是全球轮换或革命性突破。在接下来的文章中,我来回地浏览了几个可能的起点,以充分地理论化这一转变和我们的“痉挛”当下,从对马丁·海德格尔作品中的思考和转变的调查转向我们的当代时刻,理论家们试图将他们希望“认真对待”的特定概念和对象与思想本身固有的运动联系起来。最后,我推测性地提供了一个带有社会和(甚至)色情含义的“转折”解读。
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