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 La Motta, 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.
Peter Szendy
Of Stigmatology [PDF ebook]
Punctuation as Experience
Of Stigmatology [PDF ebook]
Punctuation as Experience
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Limba Engleză ● Format PDF ● Pagini 184 ● ISBN 9780823278145 ● Mărime fișier 5.9 MB ● Traducător Jan Plug ● Editura Fordham University Press ● Oraș New York ● Țară US ● Publicat 2018 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 5525875 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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