Michael Du Plessis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3664822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Du Plessis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Du Plessis |
| SIGNATURE | DU PLESSIS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Treacherous Subject
A Treacherous SubjectAn Introduction Richard Block (bio) and Michael du Plessis (bio) I Betrayal Is a Treacherous Subject There are as many ways of telling a story of betrayal as there are points from which to tell it. Let’s begin with a beginning, perhaps not quite the very beginning, but a beginning nonetheless—which, as beginning, then inevitably involves an ending. In other words, let’s begin with Babel. We will begin with the beginning of mu…
The postmodern object
It is commonly assumed that realism depends on a particularly close relation between signs and the objects they claim to represent. Yet objects have increasingly dominated postmodernist art: does this indicate a return to “realism"? A survey of objects in the writing of Donald Barthelme indicates the opposite. The relation between word and thing has mutated so that words in Barthelme's texts create or even become things, while things in their tur…
Bodies and signs
What is the relation between sign and body in French feminism, as proposed by, for example, Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva? Even in ostensibly feminist discourses, the body has been read as the fixed reference of any utterance, but French feminism forces us to consider the body ‐ and specifically the female body ‐ itself as always and already a sign: source of all metaphors in Cixous, a stubborn residue after signification in Kristeva. It is po…
Figuring (out) Lacan
Figuring Lacan: Criticism and the Cultural Unconscious. Juliet Flower MacCannell: 1986 London and Sydney: Croom Helm
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Figuring (out) Lacan
Figuring Lacan: Criticism and the Cultural Unconscious. Juliet Flower MacCannell: 1986 London and Sydney: Croom Helm
The postmodern object
It is commonly assumed that realism depends on a particularly close relation between signs and the objects they claim to represent. Yet objects have increasingly dominated postmodernist art: does this indicate a return to “realism"? A survey of objects in the writing of Donald Barthelme indicates the opposite. The relation between word and thing has mutated so that words in Barthelme's texts create or even become things, while things in their tur…
Bodies and signs
What is the relation between sign and body in French feminism, as proposed by, for example, Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva? Even in ostensibly feminist discourses, the body has been read as the fixed reference of any utterance, but French feminism forces us to consider the body ‐ and specifically the female body ‐ itself as always and already a sign: source of all metaphors in Cixous, a stubborn residue after signification in Kristeva. It is po…
A Treacherous Subject
A Treacherous SubjectAn Introduction Richard Block (bio) and Michael du Plessis (bio) I Betrayal Is a Treacherous Subject There are as many ways of telling a story of betrayal as there are points from which to tell it. Let’s begin with a beginning, perhaps not quite the very beginning, but a beginning nonetheless—which, as beginning, then inevitably involves an ending. In other words, let’s begin with Babel. We will begin with the beginning of mu…
Philosophy (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)