| Title | Weird Reading |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Eileen A. Joy(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0032.1.06 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculations-4-speculative-realism/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Joy, Eileen A. |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2013-06-05 |
| Long abstract | It may seem strange to open an essay on the possi-bilities of Speculative Realist (SR) literary reading modes with a quotation from Derrida, whose sta-tus as one of the architects of the “linguistic turn” within the humanities supposedly makes him an enemy (or at least, an often convenient whipping post) of the new realists. Such is the odd flavor of this essay, which, situated outside of philosophy proper, seeks a more anti-disciplinary and even autistic relational field—that is to say, an amod-al, synaesthetic, fluid, and diffusely intentional model for discerning relations among thinkers and objects.2 Unlike Graham Harman (although very much influenced by him), who opened his essay “Vicarious Causation” by saying his theory of causation “is not some autistic moonbeam entering the window of an asylum,” but rather a “launching pad for a rigorous post-Heideggerian philosophy,”3I am hoping to follow just such moonbeams into many-chambered asylums. My thinking is hopefully rigorous, but also unreasonable. |
| Page range | pp. 28–34 |
| Print length | 7 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |