Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay ... more Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as a form of attention. To conceive of bodies as paying attention through epigenetic processes is to rupture the distinction between matter and meaning that governs many philosophical categories. This in turn invites us to recalibrate our conception of the relationship between self, body and world.
espanolEste ensayo aborda el tratamiento que Hobbes da a la complejidad de la causalidad en conju... more espanolEste ensayo aborda el tratamiento que Hobbes da a la complejidad de la causalidad en conjuncion con su analisis materialista del modo en que el miedo orienta al sujeto en el tiempo con el fin de defender que para Hobbes el miedo es tanto una respuesta como una negacion de la imposibilidad de la auto-soberania. El ensayo argumenta que los movimientos de la memoria y la anticipacion que Hobbes describe como centrales en la pasion del miedo transforman el campo causal del sujeto de tal manera que le da un sentido de posible dominio tanto sobre si como sobre el mundo que la rodea. Al sugerir que el miedo fomenta la ilusion de autonomia en la agencia de los individuos, Hobbes senala la posibilidad de que el inmenso y temible poder atribuido al soberano no sea simplemente una respuesta a la necesidad de sofocar el desenfreno y el desorden, sino tambien una condicion para el sentido de cada individuo de su propia soberania. EnglishAbstractThis essay reads Hobbes’s account of the com...
Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay ... more Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as a form of attention. To conceive of bodies as paying attention through epigenetic processes is to rupture the distinction between matter and meaning that governs many philosophical categories. This in turn invites us to recalibrate our conception of the relationship between self, body and world.
This article argues that feminist theorists should conceive of the life sciences not only as a fa... more This article argues that feminist theorists should conceive of the life sciences not only as a factual resource but also as a figural resource. It proposes that in shifting our conceptual orientation to biological science from fact to figure, feminists will be able to give theoretical life to scientific findings about the ways in which social environments and material habitats are processes integral to our development, growth, and social and political well-being. The figuration of ourselves as specifically biocultural creatures will enable feminists to gain a stronger theoretical and analytic purchase on the ongoing mutual shaping of the biological and social dimensions of existence. This, in turn, will enable feminists to creatively re-imagine the fields and fora of feminist politics.
Challenges to the idea of the human raised in posthumanist inquiry present both problems and oppo... more Challenges to the idea of the human raised in posthumanist inquiry present both problems and opportunities for understanding and organizing an environmental politics able to transform environmental degradation and address global climate change. This essay explains how arguments about human embodiment, symbiosis, and human embeddedness in social and material habitats have led to a reconceptualization of the human as well as the environment. Next, the essay elaborates two specific approaches—actor network theory and object-oriented ontology—through which the conceptual diminution or displacement of the human elucidates how activities in our daily lives ramify into environmental degradation and global climate change. It explains how the enormity of these problems makes it difficult to imagine how to redress them politically, leading to political apathy, and it makes some tentative proposals about how to overcome these difficulties.
... This book is all the better for her timely interventions and enduring patience. Thanks to Cyn... more ... This book is all the better for her timely interventions and enduring patience. Thanks to Cynthia Landeen for her indexing prowess and also to Timothy Elfenbein, John Ostrowski, and Michael Wako√ for shepherding the man-uscript through the production process. ...
LIBERTY, RATIONALITY, AND AGENCY IN HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN by David van Mill. Albany: State ... more LIBERTY, RATIONALITY, AND AGENCY IN HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN by David van Mill. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 253 + xii pp. HOBBES'S THEORY OF THE WILL: IDEOLOGICAL REASONS AND HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES by Jürgen ...
Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay ... more Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as a form of attention. To conceive of bodies as paying attention through epigenetic processes is to rupture the distinction between matter and meaning that governs many philosophical categories. This in turn invites us to recalibrate our conception of the relationship between self, body and world.
espanolEste ensayo aborda el tratamiento que Hobbes da a la complejidad de la causalidad en conju... more espanolEste ensayo aborda el tratamiento que Hobbes da a la complejidad de la causalidad en conjuncion con su analisis materialista del modo en que el miedo orienta al sujeto en el tiempo con el fin de defender que para Hobbes el miedo es tanto una respuesta como una negacion de la imposibilidad de la auto-soberania. El ensayo argumenta que los movimientos de la memoria y la anticipacion que Hobbes describe como centrales en la pasion del miedo transforman el campo causal del sujeto de tal manera que le da un sentido de posible dominio tanto sobre si como sobre el mundo que la rodea. Al sugerir que el miedo fomenta la ilusion de autonomia en la agencia de los individuos, Hobbes senala la posibilidad de que el inmenso y temible poder atribuido al soberano no sea simplemente una respuesta a la necesidad de sofocar el desenfreno y el desorden, sino tambien una condicion para el sentido de cada individuo de su propia soberania. EnglishAbstractThis essay reads Hobbes’s account of the com...
Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay ... more Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as a form of attention. To conceive of bodies as paying attention through epigenetic processes is to rupture the distinction between matter and meaning that governs many philosophical categories. This in turn invites us to recalibrate our conception of the relationship between self, body and world.
This article argues that feminist theorists should conceive of the life sciences not only as a fa... more This article argues that feminist theorists should conceive of the life sciences not only as a factual resource but also as a figural resource. It proposes that in shifting our conceptual orientation to biological science from fact to figure, feminists will be able to give theoretical life to scientific findings about the ways in which social environments and material habitats are processes integral to our development, growth, and social and political well-being. The figuration of ourselves as specifically biocultural creatures will enable feminists to gain a stronger theoretical and analytic purchase on the ongoing mutual shaping of the biological and social dimensions of existence. This, in turn, will enable feminists to creatively re-imagine the fields and fora of feminist politics.
Challenges to the idea of the human raised in posthumanist inquiry present both problems and oppo... more Challenges to the idea of the human raised in posthumanist inquiry present both problems and opportunities for understanding and organizing an environmental politics able to transform environmental degradation and address global climate change. This essay explains how arguments about human embodiment, symbiosis, and human embeddedness in social and material habitats have led to a reconceptualization of the human as well as the environment. Next, the essay elaborates two specific approaches—actor network theory and object-oriented ontology—through which the conceptual diminution or displacement of the human elucidates how activities in our daily lives ramify into environmental degradation and global climate change. It explains how the enormity of these problems makes it difficult to imagine how to redress them politically, leading to political apathy, and it makes some tentative proposals about how to overcome these difficulties.
... This book is all the better for her timely interventions and enduring patience. Thanks to Cyn... more ... This book is all the better for her timely interventions and enduring patience. Thanks to Cynthia Landeen for her indexing prowess and also to Timothy Elfenbein, John Ostrowski, and Michael Wako√ for shepherding the man-uscript through the production process. ...
LIBERTY, RATIONALITY, AND AGENCY IN HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN by David van Mill. Albany: State ... more LIBERTY, RATIONALITY, AND AGENCY IN HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN by David van Mill. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 253 + xii pp. HOBBES'S THEORY OF THE WILL: IDEOLOGICAL REASONS AND HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES by Jürgen ...
With the possibility before us that Hobbes does not simply not disapprove of lying but indeed adv... more With the possibility before us that Hobbes does not simply not disapprove of lying but indeed advises us to adopt it as an important element in a coherent set of ethical practices, we are compelled to ask the following: In what respect can lying be conceived as a part of ethical practice? ...
Resumen Este ensayo aborda el tratamiento que Hobbes da a la complejidad de la causalidad en conj... more Resumen Este ensayo aborda el tratamiento que Hobbes da a la complejidad de la causalidad en conjunción con su análisis materialista del modo en que el miedo orienta al sujeto en el tiempo con el fin de defender que para Hobbes el miedo es tanto una respuesta como una negación de la imposibilidad de la auto-soberanía. El ensayo argumenta que los movimientos de la memoria y la anticipación que Hobbes describe como centrales en la pasión del miedo transforman el campo causal del sujeto de tal manera que le da un sentido de posible dominio tanto sobre sí como sobre el mundo que la rodea. Al sugerir que el miedo fomenta la ilusión de autonomía en la agencia de los individuos, Hobbes señala la posibilidad de que el inmenso y temible poder atribuido al soberano no sea simplemente una respuesta a la necesidad de sofocar el desenfreno y el desorden, sino también una condición para el sentido de cada individuo de su propia soberanía. PalabRas clave Hobbes y la causación compleja; Hobbes y el miedo; Hobbes y el materialismo; Hobbes y soberanía.
LIBERTY, RATIONALITY, AND AGENCY IN HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN by David van Mill. Albany: State ... more LIBERTY, RATIONALITY, AND AGENCY IN HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN by David van Mill. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 253 + xii pp. HOBBES'S THEORY OF THE WILL: IDEOLOGICAL REASONS AND HISTORICAL CIRCUMSTANCES by Jürgen ...
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