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Anapus reprezentacinio mąstymo: ne-žmoniško stiliaus paieškos
Beyond the Representative Thinking: in Search of the Inhuman Style

Author(s): Kristina Karvelytė
Subject(s): Photography
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: new; style; subject; representative thinking; inhuman.

Summary/Abstract: The article reflects and pursues Clair Colebrook‘s idea that the new philosophical thinking requires new writing style or grammar, which could dispose subject‘s point of view. Such position gives possibility to reflect few correlative problems, i.e. concepts of new and stile, which are mostly accepted in the context of literature than philosophy. The intersection between both discurses are found in ouevre of such thinkers as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault and writers as Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Roussel or Alain Robbe-Grillet. New and style here becomes means for overcoming representative thinking. These concepts are also related with notion of postmodern subject. Foucault‘s statement about the death of an author directs us towards a new space and thought without speaking subject. Can we interpret the notion of style as midway, compromise between the language-being understood as the condition of writing/ speaking/thinking and an author understood as creator of the discourse? Is that a mode of conceptual production? Does postmodern philosophical discourse really produce inhuman style or it just gives a subjective description about the inhuman? What strategies are proposed?

  • Issue Year: 12/2010
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 45-52
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Lithuanian