Sarah M Pourciau
Biographic Data
| ID | 4527132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah M Pourciau |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah M |
| FAMILY NAME | Pourciau |
| SIGNATURE | POURCIAU S M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
On the Digital Ocean
The article investigates the mathematical and philosophical backdrop of the digital ocean as contemporary model, moving from the digitalized ocean of Georg Cantor's set theory to that of Alan Turing's computation theory. It examines in Cantor what is arguably the most rigorous historical attempt to think the structural essence of the continuum, in order to clarify what disappears from the computational paradigm once Turing begins to advocate for …
A/logos
A/logos: An Anomalous Episode in the History of Number Sarah Pourciau (bio) “Mathematics is the science of the infinite” (Weyl, “The Current Epistemological Situation” 123).1 With this pronouncement, the German mathematician Hermann Weyl opens his 1925 diagnostic essay, “The Current Epistemological Situation in Mathematics” (Die heutige Erkenntnislage in der Mathematik), which takes the measure of a contemporary situation identified elsewhere by …
Ambiguity Intervenes
Ambiguity Intervenes: The Strategy of Equivocation in Adorno's "Der Essay als Form" Sarah Pourciau Princeton University "Beziehung ist alles. Und willst du sie näher bei Namen nennen, so ist ihr Name 'Zweideutigkeit.'" Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus1 I Adorno's study of the essay form, published in 1958 as the opening piece of the volume Noten zur Literatur, has long been considered one of the classic discussions of the genre.2 Yet to the earlier in…
Infernal Poetics
The article investigates the relationship between grammatical temporality and historical fiction in the work of Peter Weiss. It proposes a notion of redemptive ambiguity at the level of tense, with which Weiss's language actively resists the claustrophobia of a posthistorical (because of post-Auschwitz) eversame. It then goes on to extrapolate, from this grammatically resistant aesthetics, a Weissian critique of linguistic fluency and political p…
Disarming the Double
Bodily Negation
The critique most commonly leveled at the decisionist theories of the jurist and political thinker Carl Schmitt accuses him of an aestheticizing formalism that serves primarily to protect the political status quo. To endorse the purely formal structure of decision without regard for the specificity of its content means, so the argument runs, to abandon humanity to its present corrupt conditions, since a political theory devoid of a substantive, n…
On the Digital Ocean
The article investigates the mathematical and philosophical backdrop of the digital ocean as contemporary model, moving from the digitalized ocean of Georg Cantor's set theory to that of Alan Turing's computation theory. It examines in Cantor what is arguably the most rigorous historical attempt to think the structural essence of the continuum, in order to clarify what disappears from the computational paradigm once Turing begins to advocate for …
A/logos
A/logos: An Anomalous Episode in the History of Number Sarah Pourciau (bio) “Mathematics is the science of the infinite” (Weyl, “The Current Epistemological Situation” 123).1 With this pronouncement, the German mathematician Hermann Weyl opens his 1925 diagnostic essay, “The Current Epistemological Situation in Mathematics” (Die heutige Erkenntnislage in der Mathematik), which takes the measure of a contemporary situation identified elsewhere by …
Bodily Negation
The critique most commonly leveled at the decisionist theories of the jurist and political thinker Carl Schmitt accuses him of an aestheticizing formalism that serves primarily to protect the political status quo. To endorse the purely formal structure of decision without regard for the specificity of its content means, so the argument runs, to abandon humanity to its present corrupt conditions, since a political theory devoid of a substantive, n…
Bodily Negation
The critique most commonly leveled at the decisionist theories of the jurist and political thinker Carl Schmitt accuses him of an aestheticizing formalism that serves primarily to protect the political status quo. To endorse the purely formal structure of decision without regard for the specificity of its content means, so the argument runs, to abandon humanity to its present corrupt conditions, since a political theory devoid of a substantive, n…
Disarming the Double
Ambiguity Intervenes
Ambiguity Intervenes: The Strategy of Equivocation in Adorno's "Der Essay als Form" Sarah Pourciau Princeton University "Beziehung ist alles. Und willst du sie näher bei Namen nennen, so ist ihr Name 'Zweideutigkeit.'" Thomas Mann, Doktor Faustus1 I Adorno's study of the essay form, published in 1958 as the opening piece of the volume Noten zur Literatur, has long been considered one of the classic discussions of the genre.2 Yet to the earlier in…
Infernal Poetics
The article investigates the relationship between grammatical temporality and historical fiction in the work of Peter Weiss. It proposes a notion of redemptive ambiguity at the level of tense, with which Weiss's language actively resists the claustrophobia of a posthistorical (because of post-Auschwitz) eversame. It then goes on to extrapolate, from this grammatically resistant aesthetics, a Weissian critique of linguistic fluency and political p…
A/logos
A/logos: An Anomalous Episode in the History of Number Sarah Pourciau (bio) “Mathematics is the science of the infinite” (Weyl, “The Current Epistemological Situation” 123).1 With this pronouncement, the German mathematician Hermann Weyl opens his 1925 diagnostic essay, “The Current Epistemological Situation in Mathematics” (Die heutige Erkenntnislage in der Mathematik), which takes the measure of a contemporary situation identified elsewhere by …
On the Digital Ocean
The article investigates the mathematical and philosophical backdrop of the digital ocean as contemporary model, moving from the digitalized ocean of Georg Cantor's set theory to that of Alan Turing's computation theory. It examines in Cantor what is arguably the most rigorous historical attempt to think the structural essence of the continuum, in order to clarify what disappears from the computational paradigm once Turing begins to advocate for …
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Ambiguity (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)