Mcneil Taylor
Biographic Data
| ID | 3746110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mcneil Taylor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mcneil |
| FAMILY NAME | Taylor |
| SIGNATURE | TAYLOR M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6122-4604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Laure Astourian , The Ethnographic Optic
Carrying the Earth to the Sky
Claire Denis and Gilles Deleuze have initiated some of the most radical questioning of the human figure in recent French culture. This tendency has escalated in recent years, as Denis turns her gaze towards interstellar matter in High Life (2018), while a growing trend within Deleuze studies has developed the idea of a 'dark Deleuze' intent on leaving behind the human once and for all. This article takes these developments as an occasion to broac…
Doing a Psychoanalysis of Nature
Sigmund Freud's biologism has historically come with a negative valence, seeming to consign us to passive determination by irrational drives. While the nonhuman turn has recently highlighted the underacknowledged creativity of animal life, this re-evaluation of biology has hardly implicated Freud. I contend that Maurice Merleau-Ponty reveals a nascent 'other Freud' able to inform the nonhuman turn, one that sees the human animal as the basis of t…
The Flesh Made Word
In Celine et Julie Vont en Bateau Jacques Rivette works through his discomfort with the theological function of the author, a discomfort stemming from the material effects of authorship on the bodies of his actors. Examples of bodily incision and bruising proliferate throughout the film, part of a process of violent characterization imposed by an authoring demiurge. The film explores several methods of escape from this process, starting with exot…
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The Flesh Made Word
In Celine et Julie Vont en Bateau Jacques Rivette works through his discomfort with the theological function of the author, a discomfort stemming from the material effects of authorship on the bodies of his actors. Examples of bodily incision and bruising proliferate throughout the film, part of a process of violent characterization imposed by an authoring demiurge. The film explores several methods of escape from this process, starting with exot…
Carrying the Earth to the Sky
Claire Denis and Gilles Deleuze have initiated some of the most radical questioning of the human figure in recent French culture. This tendency has escalated in recent years, as Denis turns her gaze towards interstellar matter in High Life (2018), while a growing trend within Deleuze studies has developed the idea of a 'dark Deleuze' intent on leaving behind the human once and for all. This article takes these developments as an occasion to broac…
Doing a Psychoanalysis of Nature
Sigmund Freud's biologism has historically come with a negative valence, seeming to consign us to passive determination by irrational drives. While the nonhuman turn has recently highlighted the underacknowledged creativity of animal life, this re-evaluation of biology has hardly implicated Freud. I contend that Maurice Merleau-Ponty reveals a nascent 'other Freud' able to inform the nonhuman turn, one that sees the human animal as the basis of t…
Laure Astourian , The Ethnographic Optic
Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Movie theater (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (1 work) · Anthropocentrism (1 work) · Christology (1 work)