Toon Staes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400430 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Toon Staes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Toon |
| FAMILY NAME | Staes |
| SIGNATURE | STAES T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4560-7223 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Reflections on the Unnarratable
Reflections on the Unnarratable: Free Will, the Intentional Stance, and a Narrative Model for Emergence1 Toon Staes (bio) Let me begin with a quotation that also frames the introduction to this special issue, from David Herman’s “Narrative, Science, and Narrative Science,” now almost a quarter-century old: “science will not be left unchanged by its encounter with narrative inquiry, but neither will narrative inquiry” (383). The past two decades h…
Narrative Complexity and the Case of Pfitz
Recent narrative studies of complexity theory have shown that so-called ‘emergent complexity’ does not accommodate to narrative form. Complexity theory is an interdisciplinary field of study that researches how large-scale phenomena emerge from simple components without the guidance of a plan or a controlling agent. Emergence happens by chance, through decentralised interactions at lower levels. Its lack of clear causal chains makes the process d…
Work in Process
With specific reference to the David Foster Wallace archive at the Harry Ransom Center, my essay illustrates how the manuscripts and drafts reassembled as The Pale King can be used to address some of the loose ends that remain in this unfinished novel. Genetic criticism thus provides a number of hints of the directions in which Wallace may have been taking the book, and I will demonstrate that point both with regard to content and form. In a firs…
Introduction
In what for many scholars11See, e.g., Boswell, 9–16; Burn, 15–18. Tom LeClair quotes from “E Unibus Pluram” to illustrate how David Foster Wallace attempts to move away from his predecessors (32–3)
Quaternionist Talk”
This essay focuses on the many different perspectives on past, present and future in Against the Day to illustrate Thomas Pynchon's defence of Luddite fiction. By juxtaposing the anarchist conflicts of the early 1900s with the radically new scientific insights of the period, the novel exemplifies how the historical convergence of knowledge, capital and power in advanced industrial society has reshaped space-time into its own singular reality. The…
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Quaternionist Talk”
This essay focuses on the many different perspectives on past, present and future in Against the Day to illustrate Thomas Pynchon's defence of Luddite fiction. By juxtaposing the anarchist conflicts of the early 1900s with the radically new scientific insights of the period, the novel exemplifies how the historical convergence of knowledge, capital and power in advanced industrial society has reshaped space-time into its own singular reality. The…
Work in Process
With specific reference to the David Foster Wallace archive at the Harry Ransom Center, my essay illustrates how the manuscripts and drafts reassembled as The Pale King can be used to address some of the loose ends that remain in this unfinished novel. Genetic criticism thus provides a number of hints of the directions in which Wallace may have been taking the book, and I will demonstrate that point both with regard to content and form. In a firs…
Introduction
In what for many scholars11See, e.g., Boswell, 9–16; Burn, 15–18. Tom LeClair quotes from “E Unibus Pluram” to illustrate how David Foster Wallace attempts to move away from his predecessors (32–3)
Narrative Complexity and the Case of Pfitz
Recent narrative studies of complexity theory have shown that so-called ‘emergent complexity’ does not accommodate to narrative form. Complexity theory is an interdisciplinary field of study that researches how large-scale phenomena emerge from simple components without the guidance of a plan or a controlling agent. Emergence happens by chance, through decentralised interactions at lower levels. Its lack of clear causal chains makes the process d…
Reflections on the Unnarratable
Reflections on the Unnarratable: Free Will, the Intentional Stance, and a Narrative Model for Emergence1 Toon Staes (bio) Let me begin with a quotation that also frames the introduction to this special issue, from David Herman’s “Narrative, Science, and Narrative Science,” now almost a quarter-century old: “science will not be left unchanged by its encounter with narrative inquiry, but neither will narrative inquiry” (383). The past two decades h…
Art (3 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Narrative Theory and Analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works)