Suzanne Guerlac
Biographic Data
| ID | 241886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Guerlac |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Guerlac |
| SIGNATURE | GUERLAC S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Charlotte de Mille , Bergson in Britain: Philosophy and Modernist Painting, c. 1890-1914
Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France
Livingness, Information, and the Really Real
Livingness, Information, and the Really Real Suzanne Guerlac (bio) The living and the non-living The question of the limit between the living and the nonliving has grown more and more pressing in our age of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, even as the material conditions required for maintaining life on our planet have grown precarious to the point of crisis. To mark the anxiety concerning this limit we might consider the rebranding…
Reflections on Durational Art
These short reflections, from UC Berkeley faculty in a variety of disciplines, respond to the following question: "What does the phrase 'time-based art' mean to you? What are the central stakes, conventions, challenges, and opportunities of durational art in the contexts in which you work?" Collectively, they probe a wide range of practices and contexts, including, for example, Mexican festivals and midwestern American carnivals, Syrian documenta…
Seeing What the Philosopher Saw
This essay poses the question of the relation between philosophy and literature in terms of the opposition between images and concepts. It examines Bergson's insistence on the importance of images in philosophical writing and specifically his notion of the “intermediate image.” We examine how Bergson's notion of the cinematographic operates as an “intermediate image” and explore how figures of photography are not subsumed under the cinematographi…
Derrida and His Cat: The Most Important Question
This essay presents a critical reading of Jacques Derrida's essay "The Animal That Therefore I Am." It examines Derrida's claim that deconstruction has always been concerned with the question of life and livingness and attempts to displace the question of the limit between man and animal to the question of boundaries between the living and the non-living. It rephrases the latter question in relation to issues concerning technology and proposes th…
Humanities 2.0: E-Learning in the Digital World
This essay analyzes the social and economic forces behind the push for online education (especially in public universities), the discourses that support it, and the sometimes surprising discursive alliances that form among critics of the university. It also considers the opportunities as well as the risks of digital humanities and calls for increasing digital literacy on the part of humanists
Response to the Work of Rodolphe Gasché
Research Article| November 01 2011 Response to the Work of Rodolphe Gasché Suzanne Guerlac Suzanne Guerlac Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2011) 11 (3): 19–30. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949754 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Suzanne Guerlac; Response to the Work of Rodolphe Gasché. CR: The New Centennial Review 1 November 20…
Visual dust. On Time, Memory, and Photography in Proust
The Useless Image: Bataille, Bergson, Magritte
This paper explores Bataille's writings on primitive art, specifically his essay on the Lascaux cave, in order to elaborate a notion not of the informe (as contemporary art critics have done), but of the fictive figural image. It reads this "useless image"-a term borrowed from Bataille-in the work of Magritte through Bergson's notion of resemblance and the operation of attentive recognition
Real Time. Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola
Reviewed by: Real Time. Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola Suzanne Guerlac Bell, David F. Real Time. Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. 168. What interests David Bell in Real Time. Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola is the restructuring of perception that resulted from a direct encounter with nineteenth-century French realist fiction. In a first, deceptively simp…
Thinking in time: Henri Bergson (an interdisciplinary conference)
Introduction "A 'return to Bergson'," Gilles Deleuze wrote in 1988, "does not only mean a renewed admiration for a great philosopher but a renewal or an extension of his project today, in relation to the transformations of life and society, in parallel with the transformations of science."1 The vigorous renewal of interest in Bergson's thought today is in large part due to Deleuze who championed the work of Bergson when Bergson remained, as Deleu…
Victor Hugo: Le quoi et le pourquoi
By Edgard Pich. Lyon, J2C/Aldrui Éditions, 2004. 105 pp. Pb €12.00. This is a tiny volume of essays, textes de circonstances, that focus on Hugo's work produced during the years of exile. The aim is to provide an axe de lecture for the privileged moment in Hugo's œuvre marked by the two ‘antithetical and complementary’ works (p. 81), La Légende des siècles and Les Misérables. The first piece frames the exile period. It presents an account of desc…
Transgression and the dream of theory
(1998). Transgression and the dream of theory. Parallax: Vol. 4, From Tel Quel to L'infini, pp. 47-53
Cultural Studies in French: The Situation
Sartre and the Powers of Literature: The Myth of Prose and the Practice of Reading
Sur les aspects esthetique et politique de la conception sartrienne de l'engagement litteraire developpee dans Qu'est-ce que la litterature?: la liberte comme sujet central chez l'ecrivain et la litterature comme ceremonie du don
The Sublime in Theory
come the subject of theory, or enabled the constitution of theory as subject, to the extent that text theory is itself construed as model for, and generative of, a revolutionary subject. I am talking specifically about the project of semanalyse introduced by Kristeva in the late sixties and early seventies. If we look at the description of that project given in the canonical Dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences du langage published by Ducrot …
"Recognition" by a Woman: A Reading of Bataille's L'Erotisme
Lautreamont-Ducasse: At the Edge
Lautreamont: Ethique a Maldoror
Delights of Grotesque and Sublime
Fondements du savoir romantique
Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime
a notion of affective criticism1 in which analysis of style and expression centers upon questions of subjective feeling and emotive force. Paradoxically, it is this emphasis on force of feeling which obscures a more radical force at work in the Longinian sublime, one which threatens the very notion of the subjective, or the unified self-identity of the subject. If we read On the Sublime in terms of a rhetoric of enunciation, instead of expression…
Exorbitant Geometry in Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize
Quatrevingt-treize is a puzzling work for the contemporary reader. It satisfies few of the expectations we hold for a novel, a historical novel, or even a novel of abstract ideas as the text is often characterized. The reader is struck by the hyperbolic language of the text, its apparent artificiality. Frequent authorial interventions-often in whispering nominal phrases-comment not only on the events of the histoire, in the double sense of that w…
Narrative Discourse, an Essay in Method
Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime
a notion of affective criticism1 in which analysis of style and expression centers upon questions of subjective feeling and emotive force. Paradoxically, it is this emphasis on force of feeling which obscures a more radical force at work in the Longinian sublime, one which threatens the very notion of the subjective, or the unified self-identity of the subject. If we read On the Sublime in terms of a rhetoric of enunciation, instead of expression…
Derrida and His Cat: The Most Important Question
This essay presents a critical reading of Jacques Derrida's essay "The Animal That Therefore I Am." It examines Derrida's claim that deconstruction has always been concerned with the question of life and livingness and attempts to displace the question of the limit between man and animal to the question of boundaries between the living and the non-living. It rephrases the latter question in relation to issues concerning technology and proposes th…
"Recognition" by a Woman: A Reading of Bataille's L'Erotisme
Thinking in time: Henri Bergson (an interdisciplinary conference)
Introduction "A 'return to Bergson'," Gilles Deleuze wrote in 1988, "does not only mean a renewed admiration for a great philosopher but a renewal or an extension of his project today, in relation to the transformations of life and society, in parallel with the transformations of science."1 The vigorous renewal of interest in Bergson's thought today is in large part due to Deleuze who championed the work of Bergson when Bergson remained, as Deleu…
The Sublime in Theory
come the subject of theory, or enabled the constitution of theory as subject, to the extent that text theory is itself construed as model for, and generative of, a revolutionary subject. I am talking specifically about the project of semanalyse introduced by Kristeva in the late sixties and early seventies. If we look at the description of that project given in the canonical Dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences du langage published by Ducrot …
Narrative Discourse, an Essay in Method
Exorbitant Geometry in Hugo's Quatrevingt-treize
Quatrevingt-treize is a puzzling work for the contemporary reader. It satisfies few of the expectations we hold for a novel, a historical novel, or even a novel of abstract ideas as the text is often characterized. The reader is struck by the hyperbolic language of the text, its apparent artificiality. Frequent authorial interventions-often in whispering nominal phrases-comment not only on the events of the histoire, in the double sense of that w…
Delights of Grotesque and Sublime
Fondements du savoir romantique
Longinus and the Subject of the Sublime
a notion of affective criticism1 in which analysis of style and expression centers upon questions of subjective feeling and emotive force. Paradoxically, it is this emphasis on force of feeling which obscures a more radical force at work in the Longinian sublime, one which threatens the very notion of the subjective, or the unified self-identity of the subject. If we read On the Sublime in terms of a rhetoric of enunciation, instead of expression…
Lautreamont: Ethique a Maldoror
Lautreamont-Ducasse: At the Edge
"Recognition" by a Woman: A Reading of Bataille's L'Erotisme
The Sublime in Theory
come the subject of theory, or enabled the constitution of theory as subject, to the extent that text theory is itself construed as model for, and generative of, a revolutionary subject. I am talking specifically about the project of semanalyse introduced by Kristeva in the late sixties and early seventies. If we look at the description of that project given in the canonical Dictionnaire encyclopedique des sciences du langage published by Ducrot …
Sartre and the Powers of Literature: The Myth of Prose and the Practice of Reading
Sur les aspects esthetique et politique de la conception sartrienne de l'engagement litteraire developpee dans Qu'est-ce que la litterature?: la liberte comme sujet central chez l'ecrivain et la litterature comme ceremonie du don
Cultural Studies in French: The Situation
Transgression and the dream of theory
(1998). Transgression and the dream of theory. Parallax: Vol. 4, From Tel Quel to L'infini, pp. 47-53
Thinking in time: Henri Bergson (an interdisciplinary conference)
Introduction "A 'return to Bergson'," Gilles Deleuze wrote in 1988, "does not only mean a renewed admiration for a great philosopher but a renewal or an extension of his project today, in relation to the transformations of life and society, in parallel with the transformations of science."1 The vigorous renewal of interest in Bergson's thought today is in large part due to Deleuze who championed the work of Bergson when Bergson remained, as Deleu…
Victor Hugo: Le quoi et le pourquoi
By Edgard Pich. Lyon, J2C/Aldrui Éditions, 2004. 105 pp. Pb €12.00. This is a tiny volume of essays, textes de circonstances, that focus on Hugo's work produced during the years of exile. The aim is to provide an axe de lecture for the privileged moment in Hugo's œuvre marked by the two ‘antithetical and complementary’ works (p. 81), La Légende des siècles and Les Misérables. The first piece frames the exile period. It presents an account of desc…
The Useless Image: Bataille, Bergson, Magritte
This paper explores Bataille's writings on primitive art, specifically his essay on the Lascaux cave, in order to elaborate a notion not of the informe (as contemporary art critics have done), but of the fictive figural image. It reads this "useless image"-a term borrowed from Bataille-in the work of Magritte through Bergson's notion of resemblance and the operation of attentive recognition
Real Time. Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola
Reviewed by: Real Time. Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola Suzanne Guerlac Bell, David F. Real Time. Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2004. Pp. 168. What interests David Bell in Real Time. Accelerating Narrative from Balzac to Zola is the restructuring of perception that resulted from a direct encounter with nineteenth-century French realist fiction. In a first, deceptively simp…
Visual dust. On Time, Memory, and Photography in Proust
Humanities 2.0: E-Learning in the Digital World
This essay analyzes the social and economic forces behind the push for online education (especially in public universities), the discourses that support it, and the sometimes surprising discursive alliances that form among critics of the university. It also considers the opportunities as well as the risks of digital humanities and calls for increasing digital literacy on the part of humanists
Response to the Work of Rodolphe Gasché
Research Article| November 01 2011 Response to the Work of Rodolphe Gasché Suzanne Guerlac Suzanne Guerlac Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2011) 11 (3): 19–30. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949754 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Suzanne Guerlac; Response to the Work of Rodolphe Gasché. CR: The New Centennial Review 1 November 20…
Seeing What the Philosopher Saw
This essay poses the question of the relation between philosophy and literature in terms of the opposition between images and concepts. It examines Bergson's insistence on the importance of images in philosophical writing and specifically his notion of the “intermediate image.” We examine how Bergson's notion of the cinematographic operates as an “intermediate image” and explore how figures of photography are not subsumed under the cinematographi…
Derrida and His Cat: The Most Important Question
This essay presents a critical reading of Jacques Derrida's essay "The Animal That Therefore I Am." It examines Derrida's claim that deconstruction has always been concerned with the question of life and livingness and attempts to displace the question of the limit between man and animal to the question of boundaries between the living and the non-living. It rephrases the latter question in relation to issues concerning technology and proposes th…
Reflections on Durational Art
These short reflections, from UC Berkeley faculty in a variety of disciplines, respond to the following question: "What does the phrase 'time-based art' mean to you? What are the central stakes, conventions, challenges, and opportunities of durational art in the contexts in which you work?" Collectively, they probe a wide range of practices and contexts, including, for example, Mexican festivals and midwestern American carnivals, Syrian documenta…
Livingness, Information, and the Really Real
Livingness, Information, and the Really Real Suzanne Guerlac (bio) The living and the non-living The question of the limit between the living and the nonliving has grown more and more pressing in our age of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology, even as the material conditions required for maintaining life on our planet have grown precarious to the point of crisis. To mark the anxiety concerning this limit we might consider the rebranding…
Making Spirit Matter: Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France
Charlotte de Mille , Bergson in Britain: Philosophy and Modernist Painting, c. 1890-1914
Art (22 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Art history (10 works) · Literature (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · French Literature and Critical Theory (5 works)