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Thomas Telios
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Telios
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Thomas
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PublicationThe Common Being: An Outline.( 2024-05-05)
;Lisa Kampen ;Luca TripaldelliLucas GronouweIn this article, I revisit Karl Marx's claim in his Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, that the subject in its "individual existence is at the same time a social being." I redefine what has been translated as "social being" as "common being" in order to extrapolate an understanding of subjectivity that is a socio-ontological and collectively structured collectivity. In doing so, I demonstrate (1) that this common being is a collection of different socio-ontological traits; (2) that in order for this common being to be approximated we must take into account all modes of subjectivity production that intersect in what will appear as the subject; and (3) that the Other is the constitutive parameter of the common being on which the subject depends. Finally, I revisit three exemplary modes of practice-namely critique, solidarity, and utopia-and show that conceiving of the subject as a common being renders critique constellational, solidarity overdetermined, and utopia a koinotopia.Type: journal articleJournal: Symposium. Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy.Volume: 28Issue: 1 -
PublicationKaren Barad and the Unresolved Challenge of Collectivity: A Case for New Materialisms.( 2023-08-22)In this paper, I start by pointing out that despite their differences, Slavoj Žižek and Karen Barad share an understanding of the notions of relationality, processuality, and immanence as central tenets of materialist philosophy. As I argue, however, it is collectivity that acts in both Žižek’s and Barad’s works as a safety valve that lends immanence, processuality, and relationality their materialist quality. To support this argument, I demonstrate that certain forms of collectivity underlie the passage from Werner Heisenberg’s uncertainty to Niels Bohr’s indeterminacy in Barad’s interpretation of Bohr’s ‘philosophy-physics’. However, I claim that there is a further form of collectivity, which I call ‘collectivity as inclusive and holistic overdetermination’, that Barad overlooks and that conditions the indeterminability of indeterminacy. As I argue, the latter also has implications for political agency. I conclude by briefly sketching out how these forms of collectivity can determine the production of subjectivity and, as a consequence, shape the subject’s collective action.Type: journal articleJournal: Technophany, A Journal for Philosophy and TechnologyVolume: 2Issue: q
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PublicationShrapnels: Jacques Derrida's Theory and Practice. Towards an Enigmatic Materialism of Hope.( 2023-06-01)Jacques Derrida's lectures on Theory and Practice leave a lot to be desired from the perspective of historical materialism. Yet, one can nonetheless find in them the germ of a genuine understanding of materialism. More specifically, following the systematic use of the word "enigma" in the text, I show that this term serves as the heuristic device for articulating an originally Derridean materialism, one which I name "enigmatic materialism," and which, I argue, is genuinely collective, insofar as it opposes any form of monism. Moreover, this materialism has profound repercussions for the concept of hope developed in these lectures. Hope, from the perspective of an "enigmatic materialist," becomes a collective endeavour that avoids the pitfalls of solipsistic individualism through the joint effort of the subject and its/the Other.Type: journal articleJournal: Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental PhilosophyVolume: 27Issue: 1
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PublicationCollectivity as a Critical Model: Pace Adorno?( 2018)
;Kajewski, Mareike ;Uhlig, Tom ;Dierker, LenaHaug, FranziskaType: journal articleJournal: Zeitschrift für Kultur- und KollektivwissenschaftVolume: 4Issue: 1 -
PublicationType: journal articleJournal: EPEKEINA : International Journal of Ontology , History and CriticsVolume: 6Issue: 2
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PublicationDerrida in Frankfurt: The Present of Deconstruction. An Editorial Note on the Frankfurt Conference.(Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
;Sahraoui, Nassima ;Trautmann, Felix ;Sahraoui, NassimaTrautmann, FelixType: journal articleJournal: The Oxford Literature ReviewVolume: Vol. 36 -
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