Ingrid Diran
Biographic Data
| ID | 5685155 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ingrid Diran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ingrid |
| FAMILY NAME | Diran |
| SIGNATURE | DIRAN I |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Genealogy of Species as a Limit-Concept
This essay problematizes "species" at a moment when this concept has become ubiquitous in and indispensable to ecological thought. Through a reading of Dipesh Chakrabarty and Alexandre Kojève—who, I argue, is a key precursor of Chakrabarty's thought—I show how "species" sits in dialectical tension with the category of the "human," and argue that while the latter has been thoroughly problematized across fields, its dialectical relation to "species…
Scenes of Speculation
This essay reads forms of "premature knowing" in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) in relation to the nineteenth-century economy in slave reproductivity. Claiming that Jacobs's story exemplifies strategies of resistance that become possible at a critical remove from both traditional gender roles and legal personhood defined through self-possession, the essay demonstrates how Jacobs develops a counterlogic of finance th…
Antonio Negri
Agamben describes his posture as a reader as one of seeking a text’s Entwicklungsfähigkeit , or capacity for elaboration.1 In examining Agamben’s practices of reading, we can attend to the opposite phenomenon: the counter-elaboration that a text, in having being read by the philosopher, performs upon Agamben’s own thought. This reciprocal elaboration might constitute a paradigm for Agamben’s use of reading, according to his own idiosyncratic defi…
The Geometry of Means
Myth and Mediation
Scenes of Speculation
This essay reads forms of "premature knowing" in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) in relation to the nineteenth-century economy in slave reproductivity. Claiming that Jacobs's story exemplifies strategies of resistance that become possible at a critical remove from both traditional gender roles and legal personhood defined through self-possession, the essay demonstrates how Jacobs develops a counterlogic of finance th…
Myth and Mediation
The Geometry of Means
Antonio Negri
Agamben describes his posture as a reader as one of seeking a text’s Entwicklungsfähigkeit , or capacity for elaboration.1 In examining Agamben’s practices of reading, we can attend to the opposite phenomenon: the counter-elaboration that a text, in having being read by the philosopher, performs upon Agamben’s own thought. This reciprocal elaboration might constitute a paradigm for Agamben’s use of reading, according to his own idiosyncratic defi…
Scenes of Speculation
This essay reads forms of "premature knowing" in Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) in relation to the nineteenth-century economy in slave reproductivity. Claiming that Jacobs's story exemplifies strategies of resistance that become possible at a critical remove from both traditional gender roles and legal personhood defined through self-possession, the essay demonstrates how Jacobs develops a counterlogic of finance th…
Genealogy of Species as a Limit-Concept
This essay problematizes "species" at a moment when this concept has become ubiquitous in and indispensable to ecological thought. Through a reading of Dipesh Chakrabarty and Alexandre Kojève—who, I argue, is a key precursor of Chakrabarty's thought—I show how "species" sits in dialectical tension with the category of the "human," and argue that while the latter has been thoroughly problematized across fields, its dialectical relation to "species…
Philosophy (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works)