concepts

a travelogue

Bernd Herzogenrath

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781501375323
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Media Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This book foregrounds that English monolingualism reduces both our linguistic and conceptual resources, presenting concepts from the cultures of 4 continents and 26 languages. Concepts seem to work best when created in the interspace between theory and praxis, and between philosophy, art, and science. Deleuze himself had generated many concepts in this encounter between philosophy and non-philosophy, including his ideas of affects and percepts, of becoming, the stutter, the rhizome, movement-image and time-image, the rhizome. What happens, if instead of "other disciplines, " we take other cultures, other languages, other philosophies? Does not the focus on English as a hegemonic language of academic discourse deny us a plethora of possibilities, of possible Denkfiguren, of possible concepts? Each contributor explores ideas that are key to thinking in their language – about sound and silence, voice and image, living and thinking, the self and the world - while simultaneously addressing the issue of translation. Each chapter demonstrates that translation itself is a way of invention, rather than just a rendering of concepts from one system in terms of another. This collection acts as a travelogue. The journey does not follow a particular trajectory-some countries are not on the map; some are visited twice. So, there is no claim to completeness involved here-it is rather an invitation to answer to the call.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Dedication Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Concepts
• 1 Anaesthesis, Sensoma, Veoma: Cyborg Life Modes of Immersion After Deleuze
• 2 Antropofagia: Devouring Experimentations of a Manifesto Toward a Kinosophy to Come
• 3 Autofotografija, Or; A Nonhuman Selfie
• 4 Bazaar: The Persistence of the Informal
• 5 上善若水 / Be (Like) Water: Media Dynamics and Multiple Realities
• 6 ćmiatło and świecień: Jacek Dukaj’s Concepts in the Perspective of Philosophy of Visual Media and Telecommunication
• 7 Darshan: Vision as Touch and the Stakes of Immediacy
• 8 Dhvāni: Resonance
• 9 Gestell: Heidegger’s Cyborg and the Vicissitudes of the Machine | Body
• 10 Góng (空) | Saek (色): The Ineffable Persistence of Becoming
• 11 Hiljaa: Silent and Slow Media Use
• 12 kō kō kà, the Sound of Colonial Shoes: Forgotten Words of a Yoruba Song of Success
• 13 L’Implèxe: What’s in a Situation?
• 14 Ljom—A Meditation
• 15 Māya: A Measured Response in and to Cinematic Virtual Reality
• 16 Mediataju: A Sense of Media
• 17 Myslet médii. Thinking in, With or Through Media: Images, Interfaces, Apparatuses
• 18 Naqqāli: Iranian Storytelling in Two Films by Ali Hātami
• 19 肉声: The Fleshly Voice
• 20 ОТКАЗ (OTKAZ): From Expressive Movement to a Figure of Thought
• 21 رند, or Rend
• 22 Sankofa—A Synthesis
• 23 Saudade: (De)mythologizing a Portuguese Concept
• 24 Schalten und Walten: Toward Operative Ontologies in the Digital Iconosphere
• 25 Seken: Webs and Networks of In-Betweenness
• 26 Tathāgatagarbha: Translating the Untranslatable
• 27 Todetita: Facebook’s Ontological Malady
• 28 Togliere di scena
• 29 Ubuntu: Be-ing Becoming (Capable of Being Affected)
• 30 Uri (우리 [ʊri]): Sound and the Porous Self
• 31 “Utbrytningsdröm”: Swedish Audio-Visual Expressions of a Desire for Leaving Far
• 32 Wellevenskunst
• 33 Line and Bump
• Contributors
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names
• Imprint