Language Parasites: Of Phorontology
Punctum Books
ISBN13:
9780998531861
$21.83
What we call Being" infects us and speaks through us - it treats us as a host to a linguistic and experiential parasite. Ontology - the study of Being - has primarily dealt with human questions regarding Being at the expense of the non-human, inhuman, and posthuman. Language Parasites works against this tendency by offering a "phorontology": a theory of Being inspired by "phoronts," which are tiny organisms that engage in parasitic migration (lice, mites, ticks, fleas, etc.). What is the Being of a parasite and how can that complicated non-human ontology influence human definitions of Being? Gradually, the anthropocentric distinction of subject and object fades away in favor of the emergence of a strange new philosophical entity called the transject, a being that is thrown far afield from the more normative notions of the subject that can be found in Hegel, Kant, Lacan, or even Foucault, Nietzsche, and Deleuze. A 'pataphysical excursion into the intricate world of philosophical ontology, Language Parasites presents the initial discoveries of a much larger project that seeks to redefine the boundaries of Being. This book is the result of a parasitic infection of continental philosophy in which the various parasites of German and French philosophy all meet at one locale for one express purpose: to eat together, feed together, and think together."--Back cover.
- | Author: Sean Braune
- | Publisher: Punctum Books
- | Publication Date: May 04, 2017
- | Number of Pages: 136 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback/Literary Criticism
- | ISBN-10: 0998531863
- | ISBN-13: 9780998531861
- Author:
- Sean Braune
- Publisher:
- Punctum Books
- Publication Date:
- May 04, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 136 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback/Literary Criticism
- ISBN-10:
- 0998531863
- ISBN-13:
- 9780998531861