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My focus is transcorporeality, affects and gut feelings and/as academic writing. I ask how writing as a technical object, can become an ordinary path that never gives up on “optative”, i.e., that by which every problem, can be thought and reflected upon according to its multiple dimensions, and, as such, should then be resolved? Such activist writing implies a scientific move from hermeneutics and phenomenology to affirmation in immanence, directing attention to non-personal moments of reassessment highlighting the importance of Higher Education as stratified assemblages; as networked real/virtual spaces; as poetic poly-critical edusemiotics. It is a metaphysics of quality traversing knowledge as non-teleological thus a de facto end of criticism. This is my non-expressive poetic practice and virtual essay about how an academic might emerge.
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– and building on Gilbert Simondon’s (1958/2012/2017) book On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects as Deleuze also did –
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More on materiality which includes materiality of language below.
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Hermeneutics is the theory and methodology of interpretation of texts. Hermeneutics is a wide discipline which includes written, verbal, and non-verbal communication. There are different schools of hermeneutics: biblical, epistemological, ontological, marxist, phenomenological, realist, objective, critical, radical etc. In modern times it has come to be theories of understanding. Central to hermeneutics are the works of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833–1911), Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), Karl Popper (1902–1994) and Jürgen Habermas (1929–) to mention a few. Habermas is also famous for his term lifeworld. The hermeneuticphenomenology of Paul Ricæur (1913–2005) has been very influential in socialsciences through both Gadamer and Heidegger. Today analytic philosophers influenced by the hermeneutic tradition include Charles Taylor (1931–) and Dagfinn Føllesdal (1932).
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Phenomenology is developed largely by the German philosophers Edmund Husserl (1858–1938) and Martin Heidegger (1889–1976). And to be clear: Jacques Derrida’sconcept of deconstruction is a distancing away from structuralism thus phenomenology. What Deleuze and Guattari do is underlining the materiality of language.
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More on this and also affect below.
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Chronos: From Greek: “time”, is the personification of Time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature. Chronos governed linear, chronological time, contrasted with the other Greek word for time, kairos meaning the indeterminate moment that is right for something to occur. https://en.wikipedia.org/Wiki/Chronos. Retrieved February 22nd 2018.
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Reinertsen, A.B. (2019). The End of Criticism Producing Unconscious: Non-personal Activist Academic Writing. In: Thomas, L.M., Reinertsen, A.B. (eds) Academic Writing and Identity Constructions. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01674-6_3
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