Michael Syrotinski
Biographic Data
| ID | 156883 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Syrotinski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Syrotinski |
| SIGNATURE | SYROTINSKI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5521-8432 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Death Sentence
No abstract available
Late reception [play memory of a free festival]
This short text should be read in conjunction with, and as an introduction of sorts, to Nicholas Royle's own piece that opens this volume, 'The Early Reception of the Sun Machine', first delivered as a talk at the University of Glasgow in 2024. It discusses the circumstances of the talk, the ways in which the Sun Machine book has been read and misread and takes the form of a personal reflection on the whole question of circumstance and coincidenc…
Celia Britton (1946-2024)
Maculate Conceptions
This article takes Barbara Cassin's early self-published 'Explication de texte: A Beginner's Guide' as an originary text of sorts, one bringing into immediate focus an autobiographical dimension that characterizes much of Barbara Cassin's subsequent writing. This is read alongside the text which, the article argues, uses autobiographical framing to the greatest rhetorical effect, Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos and Psychoanalysis. The two key e…
On (Not) Translating Lacan
Barbara Cassin's Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis, recently translated into English, constitutes an important rereading of Lacan, and a sustained commentary not only on his interpretation of Greek philosophers, notably the Sophists, but more broadly the relationship between psychoanalysis and sophistry. In her study, Cassin draws out the sophistic elements of Lacan's own language, or the way that Lacan 'philosophistizes', as …
Postcolonial untranslatability
Barbara Cassin’s monumental Dictionary of Untranslatables, first published in French in 2004, is an encyclopaedic dictionary of nearly 400 philosophical, literary, aesthetic and political terms which have had a long-lasting impact on thinking across the humanities. Translation is central to any consideration of diasporic linguistic border crossing, and the “Untranslatable” (those words or terms which locate problems of translatability at the hear…
Paulhan's Translations
Taking his cue from Jane Tylus in her additional box within the entry TO TRANSLATE, in which she discusses Leonardo Bruni's emphasis on writerly style in (re)translating the canonical philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, and with reference to his own experience of translating the Dictionary of Untranslatables, the author draws together several disparate reflections on Jean Paulhan and translation. The article's working hypothesis is that, wit…
Translating (Derrida's?) Logos
My own debts to Jacques Derrida are and always have been appropriately incalculable, and seem to work in ways that are unforeseen and unforeseeable, though they can perhaps be best located in what I believe are now fairly instinctual habits of reading with an eye for the telling detail, or in my various efforts to chart intellectual genealogies in the French or Francophone world, often when they are hidden or unsuspected (particularly in relation…
Théories intercontinentales
S'il est un courant qui a animé les sciences humaines au cours des dernières décennies, c'est bien celui des théories postcoloniales. Vaste nébuleuse discutée à travers le monde, leur essor doit beaucoup à quelques figures majeures qui ont en commun d'enseigner la littérature anglaise et comparée dans des universités anglo-saxonnes, principalement nord-américaines, tout en étant originaires d'autres continents.Ce livre collectif explore l'inciden…
Globalization, mondialisation and the immonde in Contemporary Francophone African Literature
Taking as its theoretical frame of reference Jean-Luc Nancy's distinction between globalization and mondialisation, this article explores the relationship between contemporary Africa, the 'world' and the 'literary'. The discussion centres on a number of present-day African novelists, and looks in particular at a controversial recent text by the Cameroonian writer and critic, Patrice Nganang, who is inspired by the work of the well-known theorist …
De la lithogrammatologie
Cet article propose une lecture « transversale » ou diagonale de Caillois « à travers » Jean Paulhan. Prenant comme point de départ un texte de Paulhan sur une pierre, « La Pierre philosophale », il se prolonge par une analyse des deux écrivains à la lumière des pages consacrées par Caillois aux pierres et à sa théorie du « fantastique naturel » dans Cases d'un échiquier , pour aboutir à ce qu'on peut appeler une lecture « lithogrammatologique » …
The Touch of Language
This article takes two instances of circumstantial or “contingent“ encounters - Jean-Luc Nancy's reading of Michel Leiris and Jacques Derrida's reading of Jean-Luc Nancy, and the points of contact between these encounters - in order to foreground the primacy of touch in Nancy's thought, and to delineate more precisely the haptic quality of his own poetic practice of reading and writing. While his encounter with Leiris produces a text that, in an …
Extraordinary Sense
Taking as its point of departure Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, Nancy's short preface distils much of his writing on the inescapably sensual or sensible foundation of philosophical thought, beginning with the subject of the Cartesian cogito. Furthermore, the uncontrollable—and synesthetic—dissemination of the senses resists any attempt to impose rational, intelligible order, or to “make sense
Genealogical Misfortunes
In his latest work, Sortir de la grande nuit, the Cameroonian social theorist Achille Mbembe nuances his description of the ontological status of the postcolonial African subject, which he had theorized extensively in his best-known text, On the Postcolony, and at the same time exploits the conceptual resources of a number of Jean-Luc Nancy's lexical innovations. This recent text is also a reprise of an earlier autobiographical essay, and the ges…
Deconstruction and the Postcolonial
Deconstruction and the Postcolonial
As postcolonial studies shifts to a more comparative approach one of the most intriguing developments has been within the Francophone world. A number of genealogical lines of influence are now being drawn connecting the work of the three figures most associated with the emergence of postcolonial theory Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak to an earlier generation of French (predominantly poststructuralist ) theorists. Within this emerging…
V. Y. Mudimbe et la r -invention de l'Afrique
Reviewed by: V. Y. Mudimbe et la ré-invention de l’Afrique: poétique et politique de la décolonisation des sciences humaines Michael Syrotinski V. Y. Mudimbe et la ré-invention de l’Afrique: poétique et politique de la décolonisation des sciences humaines By Kasereka Kavwahirehi Francopolyphonies 4. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 420 pp. ISBN 90-420-1839-9 paper. The sheer richness, complexity, and eclectic diversity of V. Y. Mudimbe's writings perhaps…
Transatlantic Translations
Postcolonial Criticism
By Nicholas Harrison. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2003. iv+221 pp. Hb £50.00. Pb £15.99. Nicholas Harrison's wonderfully subtle, engaging and theoretically engaged reflection on many of the most resonant questions of postcolonial literature and criticism is a refreshing departure from the tendency within postcolonial studies to continually seek out undiscovered voices in the name of expanding diversity. Harrison's approach is, instead, to select a s…
The Rhetoric of Illness in Jean Paulhan
Michael Syrotinski, The Rhetoric of Illness in Jean Paulhan, Yale French Studies, No. 106, The Power of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Power: Jean Paulhan's Fiction, Criticism, and Editorial Activity (2004), pp. 57-70
The Double Necessity of Criticism and Self-Effacement
International audience
The Power of Poetics, the Poetics of Power
Michael Syrotinski, The Power of Poetics, the Poetics of Power, Yale French Studies, No. 106, The Power of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Power: Jean Paulhan's Fiction, Criticism, and Editorial Activity (2004), pp. 189-204
Fault Lines
Jean-Yves Pouilloux, Michael Syrotinski, Fault Lines: Literature and the Experience of the Impossible, Yale French Studies, No. 106, The Power of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Power: Jean Paulhan's Fiction, Criticism, and Editorial Activity (2004), pp. 159-172
Those Who Have Fallen Silent
Eric Trudel, Claire Valade, Michael Syrotinski, "Those Who Have Fallen Silent": Keeping Literature "au secret", Yale French Studies, No. 106, The Power of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Power: Jean Paulhan's Fiction, Criticism, and Editorial Activity (2004), pp. 173-188
VII. Insiders' Perspectives on a Feminist Marriage
Extraordinary Sense
Taking as its point of departure Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, Nancy's short preface distils much of his writing on the inescapably sensual or sensible foundation of philosophical thought, beginning with the subject of the Cartesian cogito. Furthermore, the uncontrollable—and synesthetic—dissemination of the senses resists any attempt to impose rational, intelligible order, or to “make sense
Paulhan's Translations
Taking his cue from Jane Tylus in her additional box within the entry TO TRANSLATE, in which she discusses Leonardo Bruni's emphasis on writerly style in (re)translating the canonical philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, and with reference to his own experience of translating the Dictionary of Untranslatables, the author draws together several disparate reflections on Jean Paulhan and translation. The article's working hypothesis is that, wit…
Théories intercontinentales
S'il est un courant qui a animé les sciences humaines au cours des dernières décennies, c'est bien celui des théories postcoloniales. Vaste nébuleuse discutée à travers le monde, leur essor doit beaucoup à quelques figures majeures qui ont en commun d'enseigner la littérature anglaise et comparée dans des universités anglo-saxonnes, principalement nord-américaines, tout en étant originaires d'autres continents.Ce livre collectif explore l'inciden…
Genealogical Misfortunes
In his latest work, Sortir de la grande nuit, the Cameroonian social theorist Achille Mbembe nuances his description of the ontological status of the postcolonial African subject, which he had theorized extensively in his best-known text, On the Postcolony, and at the same time exploits the conceptual resources of a number of Jean-Luc Nancy's lexical innovations. This recent text is also a reprise of an earlier autobiographical essay, and the ges…
Henri Thomas
Les Iris
Noncoincidences
Ghost Writing
VII. Insiders' Perspectives on a Feminist Marriage
The Rhetoric of Illness in Jean Paulhan
Michael Syrotinski, The Rhetoric of Illness in Jean Paulhan, Yale French Studies, No. 106, The Power of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Power: Jean Paulhan's Fiction, Criticism, and Editorial Activity (2004), pp. 57-70
The Double Necessity of Criticism and Self-Effacement
International audience
The Power of Poetics, the Poetics of Power
Michael Syrotinski, The Power of Poetics, the Poetics of Power, Yale French Studies, No. 106, The Power of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Power: Jean Paulhan's Fiction, Criticism, and Editorial Activity (2004), pp. 189-204
Fault Lines
Jean-Yves Pouilloux, Michael Syrotinski, Fault Lines: Literature and the Experience of the Impossible, Yale French Studies, No. 106, The Power of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Power: Jean Paulhan's Fiction, Criticism, and Editorial Activity (2004), pp. 159-172
Those Who Have Fallen Silent
Eric Trudel, Claire Valade, Michael Syrotinski, "Those Who Have Fallen Silent": Keeping Literature "au secret", Yale French Studies, No. 106, The Power of Rhetoric, the Rhetoric of Power: Jean Paulhan's Fiction, Criticism, and Editorial Activity (2004), pp. 173-188
Transatlantic Translations
Postcolonial Criticism
By Nicholas Harrison. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2003. iv+221 pp. Hb £50.00. Pb £15.99. Nicholas Harrison's wonderfully subtle, engaging and theoretically engaged reflection on many of the most resonant questions of postcolonial literature and criticism is a refreshing departure from the tendency within postcolonial studies to continually seek out undiscovered voices in the name of expanding diversity. Harrison's approach is, instead, to select a s…
Deconstruction and the Postcolonial
Deconstruction and the Postcolonial
As postcolonial studies shifts to a more comparative approach one of the most intriguing developments has been within the Francophone world. A number of genealogical lines of influence are now being drawn connecting the work of the three figures most associated with the emergence of postcolonial theory Homi Bhabha, Edward Said, and Gayatri Spivak to an earlier generation of French (predominantly poststructuralist ) theorists. Within this emerging…
V. Y. Mudimbe et la r -invention de l'Afrique
Reviewed by: V. Y. Mudimbe et la ré-invention de l’Afrique: poétique et politique de la décolonisation des sciences humaines Michael Syrotinski V. Y. Mudimbe et la ré-invention de l’Afrique: poétique et politique de la décolonisation des sciences humaines By Kasereka Kavwahirehi Francopolyphonies 4. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006. 420 pp. ISBN 90-420-1839-9 paper. The sheer richness, complexity, and eclectic diversity of V. Y. Mudimbe's writings perhaps…
Genealogical Misfortunes
In his latest work, Sortir de la grande nuit, the Cameroonian social theorist Achille Mbembe nuances his description of the ontological status of the postcolonial African subject, which he had theorized extensively in his best-known text, On the Postcolony, and at the same time exploits the conceptual resources of a number of Jean-Luc Nancy's lexical innovations. This recent text is also a reprise of an earlier autobiographical essay, and the ges…
De la lithogrammatologie
Cet article propose une lecture « transversale » ou diagonale de Caillois « à travers » Jean Paulhan. Prenant comme point de départ un texte de Paulhan sur une pierre, « La Pierre philosophale », il se prolonge par une analyse des deux écrivains à la lumière des pages consacrées par Caillois aux pierres et à sa théorie du « fantastique naturel » dans Cases d'un échiquier , pour aboutir à ce qu'on peut appeler une lecture « lithogrammatologique » …
The Touch of Language
This article takes two instances of circumstantial or “contingent“ encounters - Jean-Luc Nancy's reading of Michel Leiris and Jacques Derrida's reading of Jean-Luc Nancy, and the points of contact between these encounters - in order to foreground the primacy of touch in Nancy's thought, and to delineate more precisely the haptic quality of his own poetic practice of reading and writing. While his encounter with Leiris produces a text that, in an …
Extraordinary Sense
Taking as its point of departure Descartes' Meditations on First Philosophy, Nancy's short preface distils much of his writing on the inescapably sensual or sensible foundation of philosophical thought, beginning with the subject of the Cartesian cogito. Furthermore, the uncontrollable—and synesthetic—dissemination of the senses resists any attempt to impose rational, intelligible order, or to “make sense
Translating (Derrida's?) Logos
My own debts to Jacques Derrida are and always have been appropriately incalculable, and seem to work in ways that are unforeseen and unforeseeable, though they can perhaps be best located in what I believe are now fairly instinctual habits of reading with an eye for the telling detail, or in my various efforts to chart intellectual genealogies in the French or Francophone world, often when they are hidden or unsuspected (particularly in relation…
Théories intercontinentales
S'il est un courant qui a animé les sciences humaines au cours des dernières décennies, c'est bien celui des théories postcoloniales. Vaste nébuleuse discutée à travers le monde, leur essor doit beaucoup à quelques figures majeures qui ont en commun d'enseigner la littérature anglaise et comparée dans des universités anglo-saxonnes, principalement nord-américaines, tout en étant originaires d'autres continents.Ce livre collectif explore l'inciden…
Globalization, mondialisation and the immonde in Contemporary Francophone African Literature
Taking as its theoretical frame of reference Jean-Luc Nancy's distinction between globalization and mondialisation, this article explores the relationship between contemporary Africa, the 'world' and the 'literary'. The discussion centres on a number of present-day African novelists, and looks in particular at a controversial recent text by the Cameroonian writer and critic, Patrice Nganang, who is inspired by the work of the well-known theorist …
Paulhan's Translations
Taking his cue from Jane Tylus in her additional box within the entry TO TRANSLATE, in which she discusses Leonardo Bruni's emphasis on writerly style in (re)translating the canonical philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, and with reference to his own experience of translating the Dictionary of Untranslatables, the author draws together several disparate reflections on Jean Paulhan and translation. The article's working hypothesis is that, wit…
Postcolonial untranslatability
Barbara Cassin’s monumental Dictionary of Untranslatables, first published in French in 2004, is an encyclopaedic dictionary of nearly 400 philosophical, literary, aesthetic and political terms which have had a long-lasting impact on thinking across the humanities. Translation is central to any consideration of diasporic linguistic border crossing, and the “Untranslatable” (those words or terms which locate problems of translatability at the hear…
On (Not) Translating Lacan
Barbara Cassin's Jacques the Sophist: Lacan, Logos, and Psychoanalysis, recently translated into English, constitutes an important rereading of Lacan, and a sustained commentary not only on his interpretation of Greek philosophers, notably the Sophists, but more broadly the relationship between psychoanalysis and sophistry. In her study, Cassin draws out the sophistic elements of Lacan's own language, or the way that Lacan 'philosophistizes', as …
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