Of Stigmatology
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Of Stigmatology

Punctuation as Experience

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Of Stigmatology

Punctuation as Experience

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What if our existence is a product of its interruptions? What if the words that structure our lives are themselves governed by the periods and commas that bring them to a close, or our images by the cinematic cuts that mark them off? Are we, like Chekhov's clerk, who dreams of being pursued by angry exclamation marks, or Scorsese's Jake LaMotta, bloodied by one violently edited fight after another, the products of punctuation—or as Peter Szendy asks us to think of it, punchuation? Of Stigmatology elaborates for the first time a general theory of punctuation. Beginning with punctuation marks in the common sense, Peter Szendy goes on to trace the effects of punctuation more broadly, arguing that looking and hearing are not passive acts of reception, but themselves punctuate the images and sounds they take in. Szendy reads an astonishing range of texts and traditions, from medical auscultation to literature (Chekhov, Sterne, Kafka), philosophy (Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida), psychoanalysis (Lacan), and film (Raging Bull, The Trial, Fight Club).Repeatedly, what Szendy finds in these works is a punctuation that marks experience itself, that seeks (and ultimately fails) to bind the subject to itself. This is the stigmatology of the punctuation mark on the page that structures texts from ancient to digital, as well as the punchuation of experience, as though at the hands of a boxer.

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Publisher
Fordham University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9780823278145
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. OF STIGMATOLOGY
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. CONTENTS
  7. Translator’s Note
  8. 1 Stigmatology
  9. 2 From the Rubrica to the Smiley: A Portable History
  10. 3 The Point of (No) Monument, or Tristram’s Cut
  11. 4 (Un)pointings
  12. 5 P.S.: On Restitching (Lacan vs. Derrida)
  13. 6 Phrasing, or The Holes in Meaning
  14. 7 The Dotted Lines of Auscultation
  15. 8 Monauralisms, or The Bubble of Quotation Marks
  16. 9 Punctum Saliens, or The Pulsating Point
  17. 10 The Point of the Overcast Stitch
  18. 11 Ekphrasis
  19. 12 General Chatter
  20. 13 Punctuation and Politics, or The Dot above the i
  21. 14 Final Survey
  22. Notes
  23. Index