Julia Ng
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583983 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Ng |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Ng |
| SIGNATURE | NG J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2676-0959 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Whistling Lillabullero
In a universe populated by singularities, is there room for accompaniment? Departing from Sam Weber’s discussion of Kafka’s story “Josefine the Songstress, or the People of Mice,” in which “whistling” figures at every turn against interpretive expectation and at every overturning of conventional accounts of sociability and representational discourse, this essay explores the ground and consequences of literary singularity in and for broader claims…
Introduction to the Dossier
Three and a half years ago, the new normal of video conferencing forced upon the world by the COVID-19 pandemic turned forth an unexpected silver lining: scholars separated by seemingly insurmountable physical distances were able to gather in celebration of Samuel Weber's 80th birthday at an online event jointly organized by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London and Northwestern University.Over the cou…
The Action of Non-Action
Beginning with a discussion of adaptations of François Jullien's understanding of 'potential born of disposition' and 'silent transformation' in two recent analyses of capitalist contemporaneity (by Bennett and Dufourmantelle), this essay argues that as a philosophical tool, 'China' bears within it a rich and underanalysed genealogy that reframes critical theory's approach to nature and its objects in a new geopolitical context. The remainder of …
Tender Violence, Coercive Simplicity, Geschlecht III
This introduction to the special issue asks, in the company of Jacques Derrida's recently 'rediscovered' seminar Geschlecht III, what it might mean to read this text against the grain of everything that is said in the German word Geschlecht, including the gesture of having made an archival discovery and its attendant enforcements of recovered origins, philological-genealogical authority, familial unity and consonance of signification. It reflects…
Theory on Theory
This chapter assesses three areas of theoretical work: metatheory, via Jason Demers’s The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation and Galin Tihanov’s The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond; three studies that theorize on the history of theory, John E. Drabinski’s Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss, John Frow’s On Interpretive …
Introduction
Undecidability and Reversibility
Undecidability and ReversibilityReversibility and "Reversibility."For Jacques Derrida, an unprecedented decision always involves the possibility of a decapitation.For any genuine determinate intervention to take place, there needs to be the possibility of suspending all calculation and determination, of suspending all that authorizes in advance and that in doing so renders any decision a non-decision in principle.Thus, at the outset of "The Doubl…
Rechtsphilosophie after the War
What resources does philosophy have at its disposal for a critical analysis of the role of violence in a war of all against all? Faced with this question, Walter Benjamin discovers that legal positivism, which believes in the capacity to derive how law ought to be from the sheer concept of a “correct” law, is constitutively blind to the possibility that values may be misaligned with law, and that the basic structures of law and consensus might co…
Acts of time
This paper argues that the principle of continuity that underlies Benjamin’s understanding of what makes the reality of a thing thinkable, which in the Kantian context implies a process of "filling time" with an anticipatory structure oriented to the subject, is of a different order than that of infinitesimal calculus - and that a "discontinuity" constitutive of the continuity of experience and (merely) counterposed to the image of actuality as a…
Kant's Theory of Experience at the End of the War
Kant's Theory of Experience at the End of the War:Scholem and Benjamin Read Cohen A Commentary Julia Ng (bio) I. Kant "Today" At the end of one side of a manuscript entitled "On Kant" and housed in the Scholem Archive in Jerusalem, one reads the following pronouncement: "it is impossible to understand Kant today."1 Whatever it might mean to "understand" Kant, or indeed, whatever "Kant" is here meant to be understood, it is certain, according to t…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Julia Ng (bio) and Rochelle Tobias (bio) The friendship between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem has long been a subject of scholarly interest, but in recent years critical attention has turned to the influence of the German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen on Benjamin's and Scholem's approach to religion, history, epistemology, and ethics. As a founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, Cohen represente…
Walter Benjamin's and Gershom Scholem's Reading Group Around Hermann Cohen's Kants Theorie der Erfahrung in 1918
Walter Benjamin's and Gershom Scholem's Reading Group Around Hermann Cohen's Kants Theorie der Erfahrung in 1918:An Introduction Julia Ng (bio) The documents that follow represent the most complete record to date of Walter Benjamin's and Gershom Scholem's joint study of Hermann Cohen's Kants Theorie der Erfahrung in the summer of 1918. Composed by Scholem, they consist in reflections on science, history, mathematics, and (neo-)Kantian concepts of…
Textiles and Photography in West Africa
(2007). Textiles and Photography in West Africa. Critical Interventions: Vol. 1, Is African Art History?, pp. 113-123
Textiles and Photography in West Africa
(2007). Textiles and Photography in West Africa. Critical Interventions: Vol. 1, Is African Art History?, pp. 113-123
The Action of Non-Action
Beginning with a discussion of adaptations of François Jullien's understanding of 'potential born of disposition' and 'silent transformation' in two recent analyses of capitalist contemporaneity (by Bennett and Dufourmantelle), this essay argues that as a philosophical tool, 'China' bears within it a rich and underanalysed genealogy that reframes critical theory's approach to nature and its objects in a new geopolitical context. The remainder of …
Kant's Theory of Experience at the End of the War
Kant's Theory of Experience at the End of the War:Scholem and Benjamin Read Cohen A Commentary Julia Ng (bio) I. Kant "Today" At the end of one side of a manuscript entitled "On Kant" and housed in the Scholem Archive in Jerusalem, one reads the following pronouncement: "it is impossible to understand Kant today."1 Whatever it might mean to "understand" Kant, or indeed, whatever "Kant" is here meant to be understood, it is certain, according to t…
Textiles and Photography in West Africa
(2007). Textiles and Photography in West Africa. Critical Interventions: Vol. 1, Is African Art History?, pp. 113-123
Kant's Theory of Experience at the End of the War
Kant's Theory of Experience at the End of the War:Scholem and Benjamin Read Cohen A Commentary Julia Ng (bio) I. Kant "Today" At the end of one side of a manuscript entitled "On Kant" and housed in the Scholem Archive in Jerusalem, one reads the following pronouncement: "it is impossible to understand Kant today."1 Whatever it might mean to "understand" Kant, or indeed, whatever "Kant" is here meant to be understood, it is certain, according to t…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Julia Ng (bio) and Rochelle Tobias (bio) The friendship between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem has long been a subject of scholarly interest, but in recent years critical attention has turned to the influence of the German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen on Benjamin's and Scholem's approach to religion, history, epistemology, and ethics. As a founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, Cohen represente…
Walter Benjamin's and Gershom Scholem's Reading Group Around Hermann Cohen's Kants Theorie der Erfahrung in 1918
Walter Benjamin's and Gershom Scholem's Reading Group Around Hermann Cohen's Kants Theorie der Erfahrung in 1918:An Introduction Julia Ng (bio) The documents that follow represent the most complete record to date of Walter Benjamin's and Gershom Scholem's joint study of Hermann Cohen's Kants Theorie der Erfahrung in the summer of 1918. Composed by Scholem, they consist in reflections on science, history, mathematics, and (neo-)Kantian concepts of…
Acts of time
This paper argues that the principle of continuity that underlies Benjamin’s understanding of what makes the reality of a thing thinkable, which in the Kantian context implies a process of "filling time" with an anticipatory structure oriented to the subject, is of a different order than that of infinitesimal calculus - and that a "discontinuity" constitutive of the continuity of experience and (merely) counterposed to the image of actuality as a…
Rechtsphilosophie after the War
What resources does philosophy have at its disposal for a critical analysis of the role of violence in a war of all against all? Faced with this question, Walter Benjamin discovers that legal positivism, which believes in the capacity to derive how law ought to be from the sheer concept of a “correct” law, is constitutively blind to the possibility that values may be misaligned with law, and that the basic structures of law and consensus might co…
Theory on Theory
This chapter assesses three areas of theoretical work: metatheory, via Jason Demers’s The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation and Galin Tihanov’s The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond; three studies that theorize on the history of theory, John E. Drabinski’s Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss, John Frow’s On Interpretive …
Introduction
Undecidability and Reversibility
Undecidability and ReversibilityReversibility and "Reversibility."For Jacques Derrida, an unprecedented decision always involves the possibility of a decapitation.For any genuine determinate intervention to take place, there needs to be the possibility of suspending all calculation and determination, of suspending all that authorizes in advance and that in doing so renders any decision a non-decision in principle.Thus, at the outset of "The Doubl…
Tender Violence, Coercive Simplicity, Geschlecht III
This introduction to the special issue asks, in the company of Jacques Derrida's recently 'rediscovered' seminar Geschlecht III, what it might mean to read this text against the grain of everything that is said in the German word Geschlecht, including the gesture of having made an archival discovery and its attendant enforcements of recovered origins, philological-genealogical authority, familial unity and consonance of signification. It reflects…
The Action of Non-Action
Beginning with a discussion of adaptations of François Jullien's understanding of 'potential born of disposition' and 'silent transformation' in two recent analyses of capitalist contemporaneity (by Bennett and Dufourmantelle), this essay argues that as a philosophical tool, 'China' bears within it a rich and underanalysed genealogy that reframes critical theory's approach to nature and its objects in a new geopolitical context. The remainder of …
Whistling Lillabullero
In a universe populated by singularities, is there room for accompaniment? Departing from Sam Weber’s discussion of Kafka’s story “Josefine the Songstress, or the People of Mice,” in which “whistling” figures at every turn against interpretive expectation and at every overturning of conventional accounts of sociability and representational discourse, this essay explores the ground and consequences of literary singularity in and for broader claims…
Introduction to the Dossier
Three and a half years ago, the new normal of video conferencing forced upon the world by the COVID-19 pandemic turned forth an unexpected silver lining: scholars separated by seemingly insurmountable physical distances were able to gather in celebration of Samuel Weber's 80th birthday at an online event jointly organized by the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths, University of London and Northwestern University.Over the cou…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation (5 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works)