David S Marriott
Biographic Data
| ID | 933431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David S Marriott |
| GIVEN NAMES | David S |
| FAMILY NAME | Marriott |
| SIGNATURE | MARRIOTT D S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3746-1794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Without truth
Ontology and Lalangue (or, Blackness and Language)
In this essay I reconsider Lacan’s theory of the signifier in relation to the late concept lalangue and blackness. The article is intended as a summary of the arguments put forward in the author’s Lacan Noir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Introduction
The four essays collected in this dossier are directed upon the contemporary understandings of blackness, as an ontology, a phenomenology, or a historicity. In the order of their presentation they encompass and situate what seems first to limit black being or overflow it, but which, when questioned, that is, disclosed, or unconcealed, does not fit into this logos, nor is ordered by it, even making what is most discernable about blackness in its p…
Lacan Noir
On Black Men
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748610167); Mutilated, dying or dead, black men play a role in the psychic life of culture. From national dreams to media fantasies, from sensual intimacy to outpourings of murderous violence, there is a persistent imagining of what black men must be, a demand that black men perform a script, become interchangeable with the uncanny, deeply unsettling, projections of culture. This powerful and compelling stud…
Taboo Subjects. Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis
Spooks/Postmortem TV
This article explores John Edgar Wideman’s reflections on the ways in which US television and news media reflect the political paranoias and traumatic histories of race in America - reflections that emphasize the spectral and symbolic life of race in public and private monitorings of selfhood and difference. Read in the context of contemporary and retrospective responses to 9/11, Wideman’s discussion is used to examine the place of racial profili…
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Spooks/Postmortem TV
This article explores John Edgar Wideman’s reflections on the ways in which US television and news media reflect the political paranoias and traumatic histories of race in America - reflections that emphasize the spectral and symbolic life of race in public and private monitorings of selfhood and difference. Read in the context of contemporary and retrospective responses to 9/11, Wideman’s discussion is used to examine the place of racial profili…
Taboo Subjects. Race, Sex, and Psychoanalysis
On Black Men
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748610167); Mutilated, dying or dead, black men play a role in the psychic life of culture. From national dreams to media fantasies, from sensual intimacy to outpourings of murderous violence, there is a persistent imagining of what black men must be, a demand that black men perform a script, become interchangeable with the uncanny, deeply unsettling, projections of culture. This powerful and compelling stud…
Lacan Noir
Ontology and Lalangue (or, Blackness and Language)
In this essay I reconsider Lacan’s theory of the signifier in relation to the late concept lalangue and blackness. The article is intended as a summary of the arguments put forward in the author’s Lacan Noir (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)
Introduction
The four essays collected in this dossier are directed upon the contemporary understandings of blackness, as an ontology, a phenomenology, or a historicity. In the order of their presentation they encompass and situate what seems first to limit black being or overflow it, but which, when questioned, that is, disclosed, or unconcealed, does not fit into this logos, nor is ordered by it, even making what is most discernable about blackness in its p…
Without truth
Psychoanalysis (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)