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In a late text entitled Our Clandestine Companion Maurice Blanchot testifies his at once intimate... more In a late text entitled Our Clandestine Companion Maurice Blanchot testifies his at once intimate and conflict-ridden relationship to philosophy. If philosophy must be considered as Blanchot s unavowable, mostly nameless and face-less companion; Blanchot s restrained presence in turn was not less deci-sive as a dialogue partner for French post-Heideggerian philosophy (Levinas, Foucault, Derrida, Nancy). In order to apprehend the intricate design left by the weaving shuttle going back and forth in this infinite interchange, I will focus on what could be the common and nonetheless dividing mem-brane between them: the question of the image.
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2010
ABSTRACT
2006 In this dissertation I investigate Gilles Deleuze's anti-Hegelianism, arguing for its si... more 2006 In this dissertation I investigate Gilles Deleuze's anti-Hegelianism, arguing for its significance in understanding Deleuze (and Guattari's) work as a whole and specifically its political implications. Deleuze and Guattari's attempt to sidestep idealism and its historical working through of contradictions and differences brings them, I argue, close to the tradition of utopianism, which is characterized by subtraction, isolation, paradoxical reversibility, and the elision of the negative. In contrast, Hegel's critique of autonomy, one-sidedness, and unreflected oppositions allows for a problematization of these characteristics of utopianism without sacrificing an emphatic notion of freedom and justice. ❧ The Deleuzian concepts of deterritorialization, flight, and difference are contrasted with the Hegelian concepts of Aufhebung, opposition, and mediation. Hegel's emphasis on relation, struggle, and reconciliation through the concept and the labor of history is replaced by Deleuze with non-relational difference, detachment, and immanence. The proximity of such a thinking with the utopian imaginary is presented via a reading of classic utopian texts as well as theories of utopia put forth by Louis Marin, Fredric Jameson, Ernst Bloch, and others. Hegel's treatment of the French Revolution in the Phenomenology of Spirit reveals his thinking of the political as a laborious negotiation between the particular and the universal. I analyze Deleuze and Guattari's writings on capitalism in light of the utopian motif of affirming one side of a particular socio-historical trend accompanied by a repudiation of its other side. Where Hegel analyzes such dualities in terms of their mutual reciprocality, Deleuze and Guattari repeat the utopian gestures of affirmation and escape. The distance thereby created between the prosaic, actual world and an intensified, virtual one can be grasped as a space of invention; this utopian capacity is the strength of Deleuze and Guattari. It is Hegel however who provides the concepts for refl [...]
<p>Phenomenology, biology, and the human sciences combine in this work to support an origin... more <p>Phenomenology, biology, and the human sciences combine in this work to support an original systematic philosophy of nature, organic life, and human existence. A sequence of increasingly complex modes of boundary relations—or relations between the insides and outsides of a thing—is presented and analyzed. The sequence supports distinctions between living and nonliving things, plants and animals, lower animals and higher ones, and nonhuman animals and humans. "Organic life" is defined and its characteristic features—the "organic modals"—are elucidated. The boundary relations of living things can be understood as "positionality"—that is, orientation to and within an environment. Human positionality is both centric (as in many animals) and excentric insofar as the relation between inside and outside is something to which the human being is "positioned." This excentric positionality enables human beings to stand outside of the boundaries of their own body, a possibility with significant implications for human knowledge, culture, religion, and technology. Through articulation of the essential features of organic life, its distinction from and relation within nonliving nature, and the distinctions among living things, including between the nonhuman and human, the work provides foundations for a philosophical anthropology.</p>
Jedan od najvažnijih principa u poslovanju kompanija jeste princip efikasnosti koji se sastoji u ... more Jedan od najvažnijih principa u poslovanju kompanija jeste princip efikasnosti koji se sastoji u ostvarivanju što većih ekonomskih efekata uz što manja ekonomska ulaganja. U ovom radu, predstavljena je neparametarska analiza efikasnosti, autobuskog podsistema javnog transporta putnika grada Beograda, na uzorku od pet malih, tri srednja i dva velika preduzeća. Pokazano je da celokupan autobuski transportni podsistem ima nizak nivo ukupne efikasnosti, svega 0,66%. Utvrđeno je da ekonomija obima proizvodnje transportne usluge nema značajan uticaj na nivo efikasnosti, kada je u pitanju klasifikacija koja je formirana za ovo istraživanje. Mala i srednja preduzeća su u nepovoljnijem položaju od velikih preduzeća, kada je u pitanju ekonomija obima proizvodnje transportne usluge. Ovi rezultati bi trebalo da ukažu na neophodnost da se transportni sistem i autobuska preduzeća organizaciono i tehnološki redizajniraju.
2006 In this dissertation I investigate Gilles Deleuze's anti-Hegelianism, arguing for its si... more 2006 In this dissertation I investigate Gilles Deleuze's anti-Hegelianism, arguing for its significance in understanding Deleuze (and Guattari's) work as a whole and specifically its political implications. Deleuze and Guattari's attempt to sidestep idealism and its historical working through of contradictions and differences brings them, I argue, close to the tradition of utopianism, which is characterized by subtraction, isolation, paradoxical reversibility, and the elision of the negative. In contrast, Hegel's critique of autonomy, one-sidedness, and unreflected oppositions allows for a problematization of these characteristics of utopianism without sacrificing an emphatic notion of freedom and justice. ❧ The Deleuzian concepts of deterritorialization, flight, and difference are contrasted with the Hegelian concepts of Aufhebung, opposition, and mediation. Hegel's emphasis on relation, struggle, and reconciliation through the concept and the labor of history i...
COLLOQUY text theory critique 10, p. 69-82, 2005
losing her name, by becoming literature, scholarship, nonknowledge, or by standing aside. She wou... more losing her name, by becoming literature, scholarship, nonknowledge, or by standing aside. She would be the unavowable friend in whom we respect-love-that which would not permit us to become close to her, all the while giving us to believe there is nothing awake in us, nothing vigilant unto sleep, that is not due to her difficult friendship." 1 In a late text entitled Our Clandestine Companion Maurice Blanchot testifies his at once intimate and conflict-ridden relationship to philosophy. If philosophy must be considered as Blanchot's unavowable, mostly nameless and faceless companion; Blanchot's restrained presence in turn was not less decisive as a dialogue partner for French post-Heideggerian philosophy (Levi-COLLOQUY text theory critique 10 (2005).
Human Studies, Oct 18, 2018
We recount the process by which Plessner’s Levels was rendered into English, noting special diffi... more We recount the process by which Plessner’s Levels was rendered into English, noting special difficulties of the task. We then discuss particular words and word groupings, the adequate translation of which required special care. Finally, we consider an example of the kind of collaborative procedure employed and the difficulties faced along the way.
Levels of Organic Life and the Human, 2019
Places Journal, Nov 8, 2010
The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body ... more The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body of the acting and perceiving subject, which is then analyzed by way of subjective self-refl ection. This is true for Husserl (1970) as well as for and . When, however, the lived body is made the starting point of analysis in this way, it becomes a general and thus transhistorical condition of experience, and it is only in a second step that social relations and historical formation can be inscribed into it.
The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body ... more The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body of the acting and perceiving subject, which is then analyzed by way of subjective self-refl ection. This is true for Husserl (1970) as well as for and . When, however, the lived body is made the starting point of analysis in this way, it becomes a general and thus transhistorical condition of experience, and it is only in a second step that social relations and historical formation can be inscribed into it.
The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body ... more The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body of the acting and perceiving subject, which is then analyzed by way of subjective self-refl ection. This is true for Husserl (1970) as well as for and . When, however, the lived body is made the starting point of analysis in this way, it becomes a general and thus transhistorical condition of experience, and it is only in a second step that social relations and historical formation can be inscribed into it.
In a late text entitled Our Clandestine Companion Maurice Blanchot testifies his at once intimate... more In a late text entitled Our Clandestine Companion Maurice Blanchot testifies his at once intimate and conflict-ridden relationship to philosophy. If philosophy must be considered as Blanchot s unavowable, mostly nameless and face-less companion; Blanchot s restrained presence in turn was not less deci-sive as a dialogue partner for French post-Heideggerian philosophy (Levinas, Foucault, Derrida, Nancy). In order to apprehend the intricate design left by the weaving shuttle going back and forth in this infinite interchange, I will focus on what could be the common and nonetheless dividing mem-brane between them: the question of the image.
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2010
ABSTRACT
2006 In this dissertation I investigate Gilles Deleuze's anti-Hegelianism, arguing for its si... more 2006 In this dissertation I investigate Gilles Deleuze's anti-Hegelianism, arguing for its significance in understanding Deleuze (and Guattari's) work as a whole and specifically its political implications. Deleuze and Guattari's attempt to sidestep idealism and its historical working through of contradictions and differences brings them, I argue, close to the tradition of utopianism, which is characterized by subtraction, isolation, paradoxical reversibility, and the elision of the negative. In contrast, Hegel's critique of autonomy, one-sidedness, and unreflected oppositions allows for a problematization of these characteristics of utopianism without sacrificing an emphatic notion of freedom and justice. ❧ The Deleuzian concepts of deterritorialization, flight, and difference are contrasted with the Hegelian concepts of Aufhebung, opposition, and mediation. Hegel's emphasis on relation, struggle, and reconciliation through the concept and the labor of history is replaced by Deleuze with non-relational difference, detachment, and immanence. The proximity of such a thinking with the utopian imaginary is presented via a reading of classic utopian texts as well as theories of utopia put forth by Louis Marin, Fredric Jameson, Ernst Bloch, and others. Hegel's treatment of the French Revolution in the Phenomenology of Spirit reveals his thinking of the political as a laborious negotiation between the particular and the universal. I analyze Deleuze and Guattari's writings on capitalism in light of the utopian motif of affirming one side of a particular socio-historical trend accompanied by a repudiation of its other side. Where Hegel analyzes such dualities in terms of their mutual reciprocality, Deleuze and Guattari repeat the utopian gestures of affirmation and escape. The distance thereby created between the prosaic, actual world and an intensified, virtual one can be grasped as a space of invention; this utopian capacity is the strength of Deleuze and Guattari. It is Hegel however who provides the concepts for refl [...]
<p>Phenomenology, biology, and the human sciences combine in this work to support an origin... more <p>Phenomenology, biology, and the human sciences combine in this work to support an original systematic philosophy of nature, organic life, and human existence. A sequence of increasingly complex modes of boundary relations—or relations between the insides and outsides of a thing—is presented and analyzed. The sequence supports distinctions between living and nonliving things, plants and animals, lower animals and higher ones, and nonhuman animals and humans. "Organic life" is defined and its characteristic features—the "organic modals"—are elucidated. The boundary relations of living things can be understood as "positionality"—that is, orientation to and within an environment. Human positionality is both centric (as in many animals) and excentric insofar as the relation between inside and outside is something to which the human being is "positioned." This excentric positionality enables human beings to stand outside of the boundaries of their own body, a possibility with significant implications for human knowledge, culture, religion, and technology. Through articulation of the essential features of organic life, its distinction from and relation within nonliving nature, and the distinctions among living things, including between the nonhuman and human, the work provides foundations for a philosophical anthropology.</p>
Jedan od najvažnijih principa u poslovanju kompanija jeste princip efikasnosti koji se sastoji u ... more Jedan od najvažnijih principa u poslovanju kompanija jeste princip efikasnosti koji se sastoji u ostvarivanju što većih ekonomskih efekata uz što manja ekonomska ulaganja. U ovom radu, predstavljena je neparametarska analiza efikasnosti, autobuskog podsistema javnog transporta putnika grada Beograda, na uzorku od pet malih, tri srednja i dva velika preduzeća. Pokazano je da celokupan autobuski transportni podsistem ima nizak nivo ukupne efikasnosti, svega 0,66%. Utvrđeno je da ekonomija obima proizvodnje transportne usluge nema značajan uticaj na nivo efikasnosti, kada je u pitanju klasifikacija koja je formirana za ovo istraživanje. Mala i srednja preduzeća su u nepovoljnijem položaju od velikih preduzeća, kada je u pitanju ekonomija obima proizvodnje transportne usluge. Ovi rezultati bi trebalo da ukažu na neophodnost da se transportni sistem i autobuska preduzeća organizaciono i tehnološki redizajniraju.
2006 In this dissertation I investigate Gilles Deleuze's anti-Hegelianism, arguing for its si... more 2006 In this dissertation I investigate Gilles Deleuze's anti-Hegelianism, arguing for its significance in understanding Deleuze (and Guattari's) work as a whole and specifically its political implications. Deleuze and Guattari's attempt to sidestep idealism and its historical working through of contradictions and differences brings them, I argue, close to the tradition of utopianism, which is characterized by subtraction, isolation, paradoxical reversibility, and the elision of the negative. In contrast, Hegel's critique of autonomy, one-sidedness, and unreflected oppositions allows for a problematization of these characteristics of utopianism without sacrificing an emphatic notion of freedom and justice. ❧ The Deleuzian concepts of deterritorialization, flight, and difference are contrasted with the Hegelian concepts of Aufhebung, opposition, and mediation. Hegel's emphasis on relation, struggle, and reconciliation through the concept and the labor of history i...
COLLOQUY text theory critique 10, p. 69-82, 2005
losing her name, by becoming literature, scholarship, nonknowledge, or by standing aside. She wou... more losing her name, by becoming literature, scholarship, nonknowledge, or by standing aside. She would be the unavowable friend in whom we respect-love-that which would not permit us to become close to her, all the while giving us to believe there is nothing awake in us, nothing vigilant unto sleep, that is not due to her difficult friendship." 1 In a late text entitled Our Clandestine Companion Maurice Blanchot testifies his at once intimate and conflict-ridden relationship to philosophy. If philosophy must be considered as Blanchot's unavowable, mostly nameless and faceless companion; Blanchot's restrained presence in turn was not less decisive as a dialogue partner for French post-Heideggerian philosophy (Levi-COLLOQUY text theory critique 10 (2005).
Human Studies, Oct 18, 2018
We recount the process by which Plessner’s Levels was rendered into English, noting special diffi... more We recount the process by which Plessner’s Levels was rendered into English, noting special difficulties of the task. We then discuss particular words and word groupings, the adequate translation of which required special care. Finally, we consider an example of the kind of collaborative procedure employed and the difficulties faced along the way.
Levels of Organic Life and the Human, 2019
Places Journal, Nov 8, 2010
The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body ... more The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body of the acting and perceiving subject, which is then analyzed by way of subjective self-refl ection. This is true for Husserl (1970) as well as for and . When, however, the lived body is made the starting point of analysis in this way, it becomes a general and thus transhistorical condition of experience, and it is only in a second step that social relations and historical formation can be inscribed into it.
The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body ... more The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body of the acting and perceiving subject, which is then analyzed by way of subjective self-refl ection. This is true for Husserl (1970) as well as for and . When, however, the lived body is made the starting point of analysis in this way, it becomes a general and thus transhistorical condition of experience, and it is only in a second step that social relations and historical formation can be inscribed into it.
The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body ... more The lived body ( Leib ) in the phenomenological tradition tends to be thought as the living body of the acting and perceiving subject, which is then analyzed by way of subjective self-refl ection. This is true for Husserl (1970) as well as for and . When, however, the lived body is made the starting point of analysis in this way, it becomes a general and thus transhistorical condition of experience, and it is only in a second step that social relations and historical formation can be inscribed into it.
COLLOQUY text theory critique 10, p. 69-82, 2005