William Ward Watkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 8748563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Ward Watkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Ward |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkin |
| SIGNATURE | WATKIN W W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brunel University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Bioviolence
"Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria, Brexit, Johnson. Covid, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump. Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens, habitually end up committing acts coercion or disregard ag…
Agamben’s Impotentiality
Of all the signature notions that occupy Giorgio Agamben’s critique of Western thought, his concept of potentiality may be the most paradigmatic. Aristotle’s struggle with potentiality hands on to metaphysics a logical impossibility that he appears to solve with a median term: impotentiality. Yet, in reality, impotentiality would have a significant impact on philosophy, specifically how it comes to be the paradigmatic indifferential suspension of…
Agamben and the poetics of indifference
Agamben’s overall method as detailed in The Signature of All Things is named by him as philosophical archaeology. Said archaeology addresses the large-scale concepts that organise discursive structures over time and place and reveals their common metaphysical basis. In particular an impossible to sustain economy between a founding common and a founded proper which constantly change place so that the clear distinction between that which founds and…
The Signature of All Things
Agamben’s methodological mix of philosophy and philology has inspired, but for some it is also the source of deep anxiety. With the publication of The Signature of All Things , this article suggests, we finally have an unequivocal statement as to the true nature of the Agamben method. The paper systematically details the component parts of what Agamben calls philosophical archaeology: the controversy over the method, the use of paradigms, and the…
The poetics of presentation
This article considers the development of Lyn Hejinian's poetics across the period of the My Life project. Taking its lead from a critical interaction between Hejinian and the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, it argues that Hejinian's poetics have moved from concerns pertaining to representation in the early versions of My Life to those of presentation as such in the later My Life in the Nineties. Asserting that Hejinian's poetics of presentation i…
The Materialization of Prose
This article presents a critical theory of the medium of 'normative' prose. Relying on the work of critics of poet's prose and the philosophy of Badiou and Nancy, it commences by defining prose ostensibly as the immaterial and thus invisible dianoia or discursive other to the radically material poeisis. The essay then attempts to trace a brief history of critical attention paid to prose to uphold and further develop this thesis. Using the poetici…
Melancholia, Revolution and Materiality in the Work of Julia Kristeva
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The Signature of All Things
Agamben’s methodological mix of philosophy and philology has inspired, but for some it is also the source of deep anxiety. With the publication of The Signature of All Things , this article suggests, we finally have an unequivocal statement as to the true nature of the Agamben method. The paper systematically details the component parts of what Agamben calls philosophical archaeology: the controversy over the method, the use of paradigms, and the…
Melancholia, Revolution and Materiality in the Work of Julia Kristeva
Friendly Little Communities
Melancholia, Revolution and Materiality in the Work of Julia Kristeva
The Materialization of Prose
This article presents a critical theory of the medium of 'normative' prose. Relying on the work of critics of poet's prose and the philosophy of Badiou and Nancy, it commences by defining prose ostensibly as the immaterial and thus invisible dianoia or discursive other to the radically material poeisis. The essay then attempts to trace a brief history of critical attention paid to prose to uphold and further develop this thesis. Using the poetici…
The poetics of presentation
This article considers the development of Lyn Hejinian's poetics across the period of the My Life project. Taking its lead from a critical interaction between Hejinian and the philosophy of Giorgio Agamben, it argues that Hejinian's poetics have moved from concerns pertaining to representation in the early versions of My Life to those of presentation as such in the later My Life in the Nineties. Asserting that Hejinian's poetics of presentation i…
The Signature of All Things
Agamben’s methodological mix of philosophy and philology has inspired, but for some it is also the source of deep anxiety. With the publication of The Signature of All Things , this article suggests, we finally have an unequivocal statement as to the true nature of the Agamben method. The paper systematically details the component parts of what Agamben calls philosophical archaeology: the controversy over the method, the use of paradigms, and the…
Agamben and the poetics of indifference
Agamben’s overall method as detailed in The Signature of All Things is named by him as philosophical archaeology. Said archaeology addresses the large-scale concepts that organise discursive structures over time and place and reveals their common metaphysical basis. In particular an impossible to sustain economy between a founding common and a founded proper which constantly change place so that the clear distinction between that which founds and…
Bioviolence
"Aylan, Isis, Begum, Grenfell, Trump. Harambe, Guantanamo, Syria, Brexit, Johnson. Covid, migrants, trolling, George Floyd, Trump. Gazing over the fractured, contested territories of the current global situation, Watkin finds that all these diverse happenings have one element in common. They occur when biopolitical states, in trying to manage and protect the life rights of their citizens, habitually end up committing acts coercion or disregard ag…
Agamben’s Impotentiality
Of all the signature notions that occupy Giorgio Agamben’s critique of Western thought, his concept of potentiality may be the most paradigmatic. Aristotle’s struggle with potentiality hands on to metaphysics a logical impossibility that he appears to solve with a median term: impotentiality. Yet, in reality, impotentiality would have a significant impact on philosophy, specifically how it comes to be the paradigmatic indifferential suspension of…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Poetics (3 works)