Alexander Diones
Biographic Data
| ID | 4398044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Diones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander |
| FAMILY NAME | Diones |
| SIGNATURE | DIONES A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola Marymount University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Play, Work, and Marcuse’s Critique of Opposition
This essay investigates Herbert Marcuse's concept of play: a collective, worldly form of solidarity. To do so, I propose that we take Marcuse's 1955 Eros and Civilization as an occasion to rethink the affective commitments of critical theory by tracing the problem-space of his encounter with play and the critique of opposition that he consequently develops. This text on the social psychology of postwar liberal democracy repeatedly turns to play a…
On Logic and the Theory of Ensembles
Alain Badiou’s mathematical ontology is famously obscure and disavows any political stakes. This paper begins from the suspicion that for such an avowedly communist philosopher, the question of collectivity posed by set theory cannot be unrelated to the question of political collectives. I argue that Badiou’s turn to mathematics directly responds to what he diagnoses as two problems of representing political will: institutional dilution on the on…
Play, Work, and Marcuse’s Critique of Opposition
This essay investigates Herbert Marcuse's concept of play: a collective, worldly form of solidarity. To do so, I propose that we take Marcuse's 1955 Eros and Civilization as an occasion to rethink the affective commitments of critical theory by tracing the problem-space of his encounter with play and the critique of opposition that he consequently develops. This text on the social psychology of postwar liberal democracy repeatedly turns to play a…
On Logic and the Theory of Ensembles
Alain Badiou’s mathematical ontology is famously obscure and disavows any political stakes. This paper begins from the suspicion that for such an avowedly communist philosopher, the question of collectivity posed by set theory cannot be unrelated to the question of political collectives. I argue that Badiou’s turn to mathematics directly responds to what he diagnoses as two problems of representing political will: institutional dilution on the on…
Play, Work, and Marcuse’s Critique of Opposition
This essay investigates Herbert Marcuse's concept of play: a collective, worldly form of solidarity. To do so, I propose that we take Marcuse's 1955 Eros and Civilization as an occasion to rethink the affective commitments of critical theory by tracing the problem-space of his encounter with play and the critique of opposition that he consequently develops. This text on the social psychology of postwar liberal democracy repeatedly turns to play a…
Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Solidarity (2 works) · Collective action (1 work)