Audrey Wasser
Biographic Data
| ID | 335333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audrey Wasser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Wasser |
| SIGNATURE | WASSER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | a 247 Goldwin Smith Hall , Cornell University , Ithaca , NY 14850 , USA E-mail |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Mutatis mutandis; or, Analogy and Justification in Simondon's System
This article is about procedures of justification in Simondon's philosophical system. Broadly speaking, the article poses the question of what makes-or fails to make-Simondon's arguments convincing, what binds or grounds his analogies, what gives them their normative force. Focusing on Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information as well as on the important, shorter text, "Form, Information, and Potentials," it examines what Simondon…
Empiricism, Criticism, and the Object of Criticism
This essay argues that no literary work exists in itself. Rather, the work is constituted in and through practices of reading and criticism, where "constituted" means determined as an object of knowledge. I treat criticism as a practice of knowledge production, and I distinguish this account from the overly empiricist bent I identify in otherwise divergent contemporary critical approaches. My goal is to demonstrate how a view of criticism as prod…
Critical Thinking
My aim in this essay is to take seriously the idea that the activity of criticism entails a distinct form of thinking. I develop my argument through an engagement with Gilles Deleuze's and Félix Guattari's What is Philosophy?, a text in which the two authors look back on their life's work to interrogate fundamental aspects of their shared discipline. For my purposes, to pose and answer the question "What is criticism?," two components of the book…
How Do We Recognise Problems
This article approaches Gilles Deleuze's notion of problems through a series of thinkers Deleuze draws on in developing this notion: Heidegger, Plato, Kant, Bergson and Nietzsche. Taking these thinkers as its guide, it sketches six broad characteristics that accompany an investment in problems, ultimately arguing that problems are attained through the activity of critique. It echoes Deleuze's essay ‘How Do We Recognise Structuralism?’ by asking: …
Hyperbole in Proust
Hyperbole in Proust Audrey Wasser (bio) C'est pourquoi la meilleure part de notremémoire est hors de nous, dans un soufflepluvieux, dans l'odeur de renfermé d'unechambre ou dans l'odeur d'une premièreflambée ... —A la recherche du temps perdu, 511 Il ne faut pas avoir peur d'aller trop loin, carla vérité est au-delà. —Proust, letter to E. R. Curtius Hyperbole abounds in A la recherche du temps perdu, to the extent that it seems to be the rule of …
A Relentless Spinozism: Deleuze's Encounter with Beckett
A Relentless Spinozism:Deleuze's Encounter with Beckett1 Audrey Wasser (bio) If I begin by stating that this paper will focus on the encounter between Gilles Deleuze and Samuel Beckett, that is, if I suggest that the nature of Deleuze's engagement with Beckett took, and continues to take, the form of an encounter, this is in part because the notion of the encounter in Deleuze's work has still not received the attention it deserves.2 Most frequent…
Deleuze's expressionism
One of the most pressing set questions presented by Gilles Deleuze's body of work is that of the expression of differences, of the univocity of being, and of how the relation between the two functi
A Relentless Spinozism: Deleuze's Encounter with Beckett
A Relentless Spinozism:Deleuze's Encounter with Beckett1 Audrey Wasser (bio) If I begin by stating that this paper will focus on the encounter between Gilles Deleuze and Samuel Beckett, that is, if I suggest that the nature of Deleuze's engagement with Beckett took, and continues to take, the form of an encounter, this is in part because the notion of the encounter in Deleuze's work has still not received the attention it deserves.2 Most frequent…
Deleuze's expressionism
One of the most pressing set questions presented by Gilles Deleuze's body of work is that of the expression of differences, of the univocity of being, and of how the relation between the two functi
Deleuze's expressionism
One of the most pressing set questions presented by Gilles Deleuze's body of work is that of the expression of differences, of the univocity of being, and of how the relation between the two functi
A Relentless Spinozism: Deleuze's Encounter with Beckett
A Relentless Spinozism:Deleuze's Encounter with Beckett1 Audrey Wasser (bio) If I begin by stating that this paper will focus on the encounter between Gilles Deleuze and Samuel Beckett, that is, if I suggest that the nature of Deleuze's engagement with Beckett took, and continues to take, the form of an encounter, this is in part because the notion of the encounter in Deleuze's work has still not received the attention it deserves.2 Most frequent…
Hyperbole in Proust
Hyperbole in Proust Audrey Wasser (bio) C'est pourquoi la meilleure part de notremémoire est hors de nous, dans un soufflepluvieux, dans l'odeur de renfermé d'unechambre ou dans l'odeur d'une premièreflambée ... —A la recherche du temps perdu, 511 Il ne faut pas avoir peur d'aller trop loin, carla vérité est au-delà. —Proust, letter to E. R. Curtius Hyperbole abounds in A la recherche du temps perdu, to the extent that it seems to be the rule of …
How Do We Recognise Problems
This article approaches Gilles Deleuze's notion of problems through a series of thinkers Deleuze draws on in developing this notion: Heidegger, Plato, Kant, Bergson and Nietzsche. Taking these thinkers as its guide, it sketches six broad characteristics that accompany an investment in problems, ultimately arguing that problems are attained through the activity of critique. It echoes Deleuze's essay ‘How Do We Recognise Structuralism?’ by asking: …
Critical Thinking
My aim in this essay is to take seriously the idea that the activity of criticism entails a distinct form of thinking. I develop my argument through an engagement with Gilles Deleuze's and Félix Guattari's What is Philosophy?, a text in which the two authors look back on their life's work to interrogate fundamental aspects of their shared discipline. For my purposes, to pose and answer the question "What is criticism?," two components of the book…
Empiricism, Criticism, and the Object of Criticism
This essay argues that no literary work exists in itself. Rather, the work is constituted in and through practices of reading and criticism, where "constituted" means determined as an object of knowledge. I treat criticism as a practice of knowledge production, and I distinguish this account from the overly empiricist bent I identify in otherwise divergent contemporary critical approaches. My goal is to demonstrate how a view of criticism as prod…
Mutatis mutandis; or, Analogy and Justification in Simondon's System
This article is about procedures of justification in Simondon's philosophical system. Broadly speaking, the article poses the question of what makes-or fails to make-Simondon's arguments convincing, what binds or grounds his analogies, what gives them their normative force. Focusing on Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information as well as on the important, shorter text, "Form, Information, and Potentials," it examines what Simondon…
Philosophy (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Criticism (2 works) · Digital Media and Philosophy (2 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (2 works) · French Literature and Critical Theory (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works)