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“The Innsmouth Look”: H. P. Lovecraft’s Ambivalent Modernism “印斯茅斯的样子”:h·p·洛夫克拉夫特的矛盾现代主义
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2011-04-04 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL20116145
T. Bealer
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Performing Deleuze, a Rhizologue in Three Acts 表演德勒兹,三幕的根茎曲
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2011-04-04 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL20116149
E.D.N. Wortel
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An Aesthetics of the Given in Rei Terada’s Looking Away 寺田玲《望向远方》中给予的美学
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2011-04-04 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL20116148
J. Hicks
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Nationalism, Patriotism, and New Subjects of Ideological Hegemony 民族主义、爱国主义与意识形态霸权的新主体
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2011-04-04 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL20116144
J. Murray
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Trajectories: Mapping Rhizomes 轨迹:绘制根茎
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2011-03-22 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL201161528
Michael Y. Bennett
{"title":"Trajectories: Mapping Rhizomes","authors":"Michael Y. Bennett","doi":"10.5840/JPHILNEPAL201161528","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5840/JPHILNEPAL201161528","url":null,"abstract":"Maps ... are superimposed in such a way that each map finds itself modified in the following map, rather than finding its origin in the preceding one: from one map to the next, it is not a matter of searching for an origin, but of evaluating displacements. Every map is a redistribution of impasses and breakthroughs, of thresholds and enclosures, which necessarily go from bottom to top. There is not only a reversal of directions, but also a difference in nature: the unconscious no longer deals with persons and objects, but with trajectories and becomings.... --Gilles Deleuze (1) Disclaimer experiment, n. The action of trying anything, or putting it to proof; a test, trial; (2) the following article. The beautiful thing about the hard sciences (e.g., chemistry, physic, etc., and I mean no disrespect to those fields that fall outside of the common designation \"hard sciences\"), is the experiment. Or rather, more wonderful than even the experiment is the inherent acknowledgement that the scientist begins with only a hypothesis and that the evidence gathered sculpts the hopefully-publishable paper. The scientist cares not what path the evidence takes him or her, or whether or not his or her hypothesis was right in the first place. A successful scientist gets paid to evaluate the differences in his or her findings with the scientist's hypothesis. Scientists must reconcile each turn within a rhizome. This is the Scientific Method, the dominant form of scientific inquiry for five hundred or so years. This paper is an experiment testing a two-fold hypothesis. The two hypotheses are as follows: 1) a modified Scientific Method can be used effectively to conduct research in the field of English Literature, Critical Theory (Cultural Studies) and Human Sciences (as well as, I presume, every other social science) 2) this paper, which is an inquiry on maps will, in fact, function as a map. The two hypotheses may, however, be in fact one. A paper which acts like a Deleuzean map has similar properties to that of the Scientific Method: observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion. I, however, do not want to spend my time on this paper trying to employ the strict Scientific Method or trying to show similarities to it. I invoke the Scientific Method for the possibility it presents. Basically every paper in the field of English Literature has an observation, hypothesis (thesis), experiment (evidence) and a conclusion (they already resemble the Scientific Method). But how often does the writer prove his or her hypothesis incorrect? Never (or at least I have never encountered this). My aim in this paper is to 'experiment' with a new method of inquiry. This inquiry works like a Deleuzean map. Method of Inquiry I will describe this paper as a series of displacements. I am beginning the paper with the above quote from \"What Children Say.\" This is the observation (or Deleuze's observation). I will then hypothesize about this quote. It is the experiment that will seem extr","PeriodicalId":288505,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry","volume":"9 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117068533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Desires Dissolvent: How Mina Loy Exceeds George Bataille 欲望溶剂:米娜·洛伊如何超越乔治·巴塔耶
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2010-11-01 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL201061327
Sara Crangle
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Art as Experience: A Deweyan Background to Charles Olson’s Esthetics 作为经验的艺术:查尔斯·奥尔森美学的杜威派背景
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2010-11-01 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL201061324
S. Fredman
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“Is There A Measure On Earth?”: Hölderlin’s Poem “In lovely Blueness” In Light Of Heidegger’s Essay “. . . Poetically Man Dwells. . . .” 地球上有度量衡吗?: Hölderlin诗歌《在可爱的蓝色中》——海德格尔随笔的启示……诗意地居住. . . .”
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2010-11-01 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL201061328
H. Weinfield
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(Im)Probable Solutions? Space and Place in Thinking Territory: Some Reflections (Im)可能的解决方案?思考领域中的空间与场所:几点思考
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2010-11-01 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL201061330
Satwik Dasgupta
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Editorial - Post-Political Subject: A Modernist Critique 社论-后政治主题:现代主义批判
Journal of Philosophy: A Cross-Disciplinary Inquiry Pub Date : 2010-11-01 DOI: 10.5840/JPHILNEPAL201061323
Yubraj Aryal
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