James Martell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1383859 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Martell |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Martell |
| SIGNATURE | MARTELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lyon College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4775-1448 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Plastic Theory/Studies
While this year’s chapter on plastic theory/studies is relatively short, with only three texts reviewed, it is a harbinger of important texts in preparation that, next year, will broaden the field into dimensions as diverse as world literature and theology. Such an expansion is logical when we see that the texts published this year include: an important and practical textbook introduction as part of MIT Press’s Essential Knowledge series (Imari W…
Between the Ocean and the Ground
Beginning right at the start of the recently published volume II of Donner le temps, at its ‘bord’ or ‘boarding’ upon or out of a calmy oceanic surface, this essay examines the functions and movements of distinct surfaces in between Heidegger and Derrida. Confronting thus the tradition of the ‘Grund’, ‘Abgrund’, ‘Urgrund’, ‘Ungrund’, with the khôra-like surface of archi-writing and dissemination, the essay proposes an investigation of the philoso…
We/One devastate(s) the world’
If the word ‘devastated’ feels most appropriate when thinking of the passing of a beloved one, it also undergirds, through the waste of its desert, two essential notions of Western philosophy and literature: chaos and khōra. Looking at our world twenty years after Derrida’s passing, and at how for more than five decades he thought and wrote on the notion of world, this essay examines the radicality of Derrida’s deconstruction for our past and fut…
Plastic Theory/Studies
This chapter considers four of the most significant books on plastic theory and studies published in 2022: Alice Mah’s Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It, Heather Davis’s Plastic Matter, Catherine Malabou’s Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, and Ranjan Ghosh’s The Plastic Turn. It tries to show the common threads among these works and to see how their differences bespeak contempor…
Hamlet's Rest II
At the end of Hamlet, shortly after Hamlet finally dies, following a series of rehearsals or simulacrums (“I am dead” 5.2.286, “I am dead” 5.2.291, “O, I die” 5.2.305, and finally, “He gives a long sigh and dies” 5.2.312: Shakespeare 2008) that began with his first soliloquy, “O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew” (1.2.129–30), Fortinbras enters and, looking at the bodies on the floor, exclaims1This qua…
Tattooed Bodies
Tattooed Bodies
Malabouian Plasticity Beyond Surfaces
This essay investigates Malabou's notion of plasticity, confronting it with the visual or plastic arts. It shows how overlooking all surfaces of inscription allows Malabou to promote a purely dynamic notion of plasticity that she sees in both neurological and philosophical processes, purportedly going beyond aesthetics and philosophies of the trace
How to Tremble Beyond Sovereignty
Nuestra principal hipótesis sostiene que, para comprender el temblor singular de la obra filosófica de Derrida y, con él, su significado filosófico-político, hemos de examinar no solo la concepción derridiana de la escritura y, específicamente, de la literatura, sino también la resonancia de su trabajo con el de un autor que aparece como su propio fantasma: Samuel Beckett. Esta indagación seguirá el temblor entre ambos autores hasta sus últimas c…
Idiomatic Images
In a footnote of Monolingualism of the Other Derrida describes the plot of a ‘Japanese film whose name [he does] not know,’ but which presents a familial history of incest, violence and tattoos, and which relates to the dream of his style, his ‘ductus,’ what he wants to make arrive to language. By analysing this film together with other instances of tattooing in Derrida's body of work, this essay will show how, if Derrida's dreamt style is a colo…
The Animal Mirrors
Starting with an analysis of Jacques Derrida's most intimate encounter with an animal by way of a similar scene in Balthus's paintings, this essay examines Derrida's criticism of Gilles Deleuze's understanding of the human-animal relation and proposes a way of conceiving the animal-human encounter beyond the traps of narcissism
Derrida on Beckett or the Painful Freudian Mark
Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature - Volume 44, Number 4, December 2011
Idiomatic Images
In a footnote of Monolingualism of the Other Derrida describes the plot of a ‘Japanese film whose name [he does] not know,’ but which presents a familial history of incest, violence and tattoos, and which relates to the dream of his style, his ‘ductus,’ what he wants to make arrive to language. By analysing this film together with other instances of tattooing in Derrida's body of work, this essay will show how, if Derrida's dreamt style is a colo…
The Animal Mirrors
Starting with an analysis of Jacques Derrida's most intimate encounter with an animal by way of a similar scene in Balthus's paintings, this essay examines Derrida's criticism of Gilles Deleuze's understanding of the human-animal relation and proposes a way of conceiving the animal-human encounter beyond the traps of narcissism
Derrida on Beckett or the Painful Freudian Mark
Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature - Volume 44, Number 4, December 2011
The Animal Mirrors
Starting with an analysis of Jacques Derrida's most intimate encounter with an animal by way of a similar scene in Balthus's paintings, this essay examines Derrida's criticism of Gilles Deleuze's understanding of the human-animal relation and proposes a way of conceiving the animal-human encounter beyond the traps of narcissism
Idiomatic Images
In a footnote of Monolingualism of the Other Derrida describes the plot of a ‘Japanese film whose name [he does] not know,’ but which presents a familial history of incest, violence and tattoos, and which relates to the dream of his style, his ‘ductus,’ what he wants to make arrive to language. By analysing this film together with other instances of tattooing in Derrida's body of work, this essay will show how, if Derrida's dreamt style is a colo…
How to Tremble Beyond Sovereignty
Nuestra principal hipótesis sostiene que, para comprender el temblor singular de la obra filosófica de Derrida y, con él, su significado filosófico-político, hemos de examinar no solo la concepción derridiana de la escritura y, específicamente, de la literatura, sino también la resonancia de su trabajo con el de un autor que aparece como su propio fantasma: Samuel Beckett. Esta indagación seguirá el temblor entre ambos autores hasta sus últimas c…
Tattooed Bodies
Malabouian Plasticity Beyond Surfaces
This essay investigates Malabou's notion of plasticity, confronting it with the visual or plastic arts. It shows how overlooking all surfaces of inscription allows Malabou to promote a purely dynamic notion of plasticity that she sees in both neurological and philosophical processes, purportedly going beyond aesthetics and philosophies of the trace
Tattooed Bodies
Plastic Theory/Studies
This chapter considers four of the most significant books on plastic theory and studies published in 2022: Alice Mah’s Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It, Heather Davis’s Plastic Matter, Catherine Malabou’s Plasticity: The Promise of Explosion, and Ranjan Ghosh’s The Plastic Turn. It tries to show the common threads among these works and to see how their differences bespeak contempor…
Hamlet's Rest II
At the end of Hamlet, shortly after Hamlet finally dies, following a series of rehearsals or simulacrums (“I am dead” 5.2.286, “I am dead” 5.2.291, “O, I die” 5.2.305, and finally, “He gives a long sigh and dies” 5.2.312: Shakespeare 2008) that began with his first soliloquy, “O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew” (1.2.129–30), Fortinbras enters and, looking at the bodies on the floor, exclaims1This qua…
Plastic Theory/Studies
While this year’s chapter on plastic theory/studies is relatively short, with only three texts reviewed, it is a harbinger of important texts in preparation that, next year, will broaden the field into dimensions as diverse as world literature and theology. Such an expansion is logical when we see that the texts published this year include: an important and practical textbook introduction as part of MIT Press’s Essential Knowledge series (Imari W…
Between the Ocean and the Ground
Beginning right at the start of the recently published volume II of Donner le temps, at its ‘bord’ or ‘boarding’ upon or out of a calmy oceanic surface, this essay examines the functions and movements of distinct surfaces in between Heidegger and Derrida. Confronting thus the tradition of the ‘Grund’, ‘Abgrund’, ‘Urgrund’, ‘Ungrund’, with the khôra-like surface of archi-writing and dissemination, the essay proposes an investigation of the philoso…
We/One devastate(s) the world’
If the word ‘devastated’ feels most appropriate when thinking of the passing of a beloved one, it also undergirds, through the waste of its desert, two essential notions of Western philosophy and literature: chaos and khōra. Looking at our world twenty years after Derrida’s passing, and at how for more than five decades he thought and wrote on the notion of world, this essay examines the radicality of Derrida’s deconstruction for our past and fut…
Philosophy (10 works) · Art (8 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Literature (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Physics (3 works) · Samuel Beckett and Modernism (3 works)