Kirby
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 25956 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kirby |
| SOBRENOME | Kirby |
| ASSINATURA | KIRBY |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9496-8685 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 140 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Marija Grech, Spectrality and Survivance
‘Who’ is turning
Who Comes after the Anthropocene
I remember my immediate fascination with an edited collection, now twenty years old, Who Comes After the Subject? The title seemed to entirely displace the identity of the subject, the “of-courseness” of its uniquely human definition. Indeed, its provocation did more than destabilise the what and where of the subject, as if we might extend this complexity, albeit in attenuated form, to non-human entities. The more radical implication was a destab…
Who Comes after the Anthropocene
I remember my immediate fascination with an edited collection, now twenty years old, Who Comes After the Subject? The title seemed to entirely displace the identity of the subject, the “of-courseness” of its uniquely human definition. Indeed, its provocation did more than destabilise the what and where of the subject, as if we might extend this complexity, albeit in attenuated form, to non-human entities. The more radical implication was a destab…
Anthropology Diffracted
How Do We Do Biodeconstruction
The word biodeconstruction asks us to consider what is appropriate to deconstruction as a practice and to reflect on the relationship between the discourse of biology and that practice. Within literary, philosophical, and cultural debate, deconstruction appears as a recognisable mode or style of analysis. However, what happens if we interrogate the radical interiority of textuality in terms of biology's rhetorical structures and logics or through…
Originary différance
Review of Alexander Wendt, Quantum Mind and Social Science: unifying physical and social ontology (2015)
Matter out of Place
A collection of essays that rethinks what constitutes materiality: offers a non-reductionist methodology for rethinking the agency of nature.
What if Culture was Nature all Along
Gives you the tools to navigate towards a non-reductionist naturalism where matter is chameleon and agential New materialisms argue for a more science friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention – climate, biology, affect, geology, animals and objects – tend to leverage their difference against language and the discursive. Similarly, que…
Autoimmunity
A centipede was happy - quite!Until a toad in funSaid, 'Pray, which leg moves after which?'This raised her doubts to such a pitch,She fell exhausted in the ditchNot knowing how to run.Katherine Cra
Visceral politics
Transgression
Attempting to explain the how, what, and why of normativity has exercised the attentions of social analysts for centuries, remaining an enduring puzzle in sociology since its disciplinary inception. A nest of related riddles attend the subjectivation of the individual, or how the social gets under our skin. How does an outside (social norms, grids of intelligibility, and behavioral compliance) also articulate the inside (personal belief and consc…
Human Exceptionalism on the Line
Human Exceptionalism on the Line Vicki Kirby (bio) Given the advantage of hindsight, it seems fair to say that Jacques Derrida retained an enduring interest in the question of human exceptionalism throughout his career. Since he was a thinker of origins, we should not be surprised by his forensic attention to what is particular about human genesis—those capacities whose unique achievement and comparative complexity are purportedly without precede…
Quantum Anthropologies
Initial Conditions
Metaphysical terms like science, matter, nature, and reality have always been in limbo in critical theory; scholars have deconstructed and problematized and critiqued them, yet they still will not go away. Debates over science's relationship to discourse and knowledge particularly revolve around the extent to which science's objects are "real" or, put more formally, to what extent objects of human inquiry exist outside their investigation. This e…
Feminist conversations with Vicki Kirby and Elizabeth A. Wilson
Anthropomorphism, Again
Anthropomorphism, Again Vicki Kirby (bio) The subject of life is no ordinary object for contemplation. Any ambitious description will inevitably involve awkwardness and paradox because the pure metaphoricity of life's manifest, its morphogenetic exuberance, witnesses an ability to embrace the very properties and capacities of whatever it is defined against. As we will see, even when life is apparently snuffed out, finished, exhausted, and done, D…
Re-writing
Tracing Life
Tracing Life:"La Vie La Mort" Vicki Kirby (bio) The sign and divinity have the same place and time of birth. The age of the sign is essentially theological. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology . . . if deconstruction were reduced to one single thesis, "it would pose divisibility: différance as divisibility." Martin Hägglund, Radical Atheism So farewell, elements of reality! David Mermin, Entanglement With the passing of Jacques Derrida it is inevita…
Subject to Natural Law
Judith Butler
An introductory guide to the work of Judith Butler, a major contemporary theorist, this title includes a new interview with Butler. "Judith Butler: Live Theory" is an invaluable introduction to the work of this key contemporary theorist, guiding the student through the most complex ideas of one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary culture. Concise, accessible and comprehensive, the book explores and illuminates Butler's important and …
Just Figures? Forensic Clairvoyance, Mathematics, and the Language Question
A written symbol long recognized as operating non-alphabetically—even by those deeply and quite unconsciously committed to alphabeticism—is that of number... But, despite this recognition, there has been no sustained attention to mathematical writing even remotely matching the enormous outpouring of analysis, philosophizing, and deconstructive opening up of what those in the humanities have come simply to call "texts." Why, one might ask, should …
Enumerating Language
Enumerating Language:"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics"1 Vicki Kirby (bio) Abstract A written symbol long recognized as operating non-alphabetically—even by those deeply and quite unconsciously committed to alphabeticism—is that of number. . . . But, despite this recognition, there has been no sustained attention to mathematical writing even remotely matching the enormous outpouring of analysis, philosophizing, and deconstructive ope…
Human Nature
Feminisms and Postmodernisms
Vicki Kirby, Feminisms and Postmodernisms: Anthropology and the Management of Difference, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3, Constructing Meaningful Dialogue on Difference: Feminism and Postmodernism in Anthropology and the Academy. Part 2 (Jul., 1993), pp. 127-133
Corporeal Habits
Feminism could be described as a discourse that negotiates corporeality, what a body is and what a body can do. Nevertheless, the specter of essentialism means that the biological or anatomical body, the body that is commonly understood to be the “real” body, is often excluded from this investigation. The increasingly sterile debate between essentialism and antiessentialism has inadvertently encouraged this somatophobia. I argue that these opposi…
What if Culture was Nature all Along
Gives you the tools to navigate towards a non-reductionist naturalism where matter is chameleon and agential New materialisms argue for a more science friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention – climate, biology, affect, geology, animals and objects – tend to leverage their difference against language and the discursive. Similarly, que…
Human Nature
Capitalising difference
On the cutting edge
Subject to Natural Law
Feminist conversations with Vicki Kirby and Elizabeth A. Wilson
Transgression
Attempting to explain the how, what, and why of normativity has exercised the attentions of social analysts for centuries, remaining an enduring puzzle in sociology since its disciplinary inception. A nest of related riddles attend the subjectivation of the individual, or how the social gets under our skin. How does an outside (social norms, grids of intelligibility, and behavioral compliance) also articulate the inside (personal belief and consc…
Autoimmunity
A centipede was happy - quite!Until a toad in funSaid, 'Pray, which leg moves after which?'This raised her doubts to such a pitch,She fell exhausted in the ditchNot knowing how to run.Katherine Cra
Human Exceptionalism on the Line
Human Exceptionalism on the Line Vicki Kirby (bio) Given the advantage of hindsight, it seems fair to say that Jacques Derrida retained an enduring interest in the question of human exceptionalism throughout his career. Since he was a thinker of origins, we should not be surprised by his forensic attention to what is particular about human genesis—those capacities whose unique achievement and comparative complexity are purportedly without precede…
Re-writing
Tracing Life
Tracing Life:"La Vie La Mort" Vicki Kirby (bio) The sign and divinity have the same place and time of birth. The age of the sign is essentially theological. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology . . . if deconstruction were reduced to one single thesis, "it would pose divisibility: différance as divisibility." Martin Hägglund, Radical Atheism So farewell, elements of reality! David Mermin, Entanglement With the passing of Jacques Derrida it is inevita…
Feminisms and Postmodernisms
Vicki Kirby, Feminisms and Postmodernisms: Anthropology and the Management of Difference, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3, Constructing Meaningful Dialogue on Difference: Feminism and Postmodernism in Anthropology and the Academy. Part 2 (Jul., 1993), pp. 127-133
Initial Conditions
Metaphysical terms like science, matter, nature, and reality have always been in limbo in critical theory; scholars have deconstructed and problematized and critiqued them, yet they still will not go away. Debates over science's relationship to discourse and knowledge particularly revolve around the extent to which science's objects are "real" or, put more formally, to what extent objects of human inquiry exist outside their investigation. This e…
Anthropomorphism, Again
Anthropomorphism, Again Vicki Kirby (bio) The subject of life is no ordinary object for contemplation. Any ambitious description will inevitably involve awkwardness and paradox because the pure metaphoricity of life's manifest, its morphogenetic exuberance, witnesses an ability to embrace the very properties and capacities of whatever it is defined against. As we will see, even when life is apparently snuffed out, finished, exhausted, and done, D…
Enumerating Language
Enumerating Language:"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics"1 Vicki Kirby (bio) Abstract A written symbol long recognized as operating non-alphabetically—even by those deeply and quite unconsciously committed to alphabeticism—is that of number. . . . But, despite this recognition, there has been no sustained attention to mathematical writing even remotely matching the enormous outpouring of analysis, philosophizing, and deconstructive ope…
Elites and Power
Journal Article ELITES AND POWER Get access Stephen Kirby Stephen Kirby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 28, Issue 1975dec, December 1975, Pages 239–240, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pa.a051716 Published: 01 December 1975
On the cutting edge
Habeas Corpus
Review| October 01 1989 Habeas Corpus Fragments for a History of the Human Body: Parts One, Two and Three edited by Michel Feher with Ramona Naddaff and Nadia Tazi Urzone, inc./1610 pp./$59.95 (sb) Vicki Kirby Vicki Kirby Vicki Kirby is an Australian critic, currently in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1989) 17 (…
Capitalising difference
Dangerous Liaisons
Review| October 01 1990 Dangerous Liaisons: Feminisms and Lacan Jacques Lacan: a feminist introduction by Elizabeth Grosz, Routledge/280 pp./$53.95 (hb), $14.95 (sb)Sexual Subversions: Three French Feminists by Elizabeth Grosz, Allen and Unwin/262 pp./$A19.95 (sb) Vicki Kirby Vicki Kirby Vicki Kirby is an Australian critic, currently in the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Search for other works by thi…
"Comment on Mascia-Lees, Sharpe, and Cohen's "The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology
Corporeal Habits
Feminism could be described as a discourse that negotiates corporeality, what a body is and what a body can do. Nevertheless, the specter of essentialism means that the biological or anatomical body, the body that is commonly understood to be the “real” body, is often excluded from this investigation. The increasingly sterile debate between essentialism and antiessentialism has inadvertently encouraged this somatophobia. I argue that these opposi…
Feminisms and Postmodernisms
Vicki Kirby, Feminisms and Postmodernisms: Anthropology and the Management of Difference, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3, Constructing Meaningful Dialogue on Difference: Feminism and Postmodernism in Anthropology and the Academy. Part 2 (Jul., 1993), pp. 127-133
Human Nature
Enumerating Language
Enumerating Language:"The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics"1 Vicki Kirby (bio) Abstract A written symbol long recognized as operating non-alphabetically—even by those deeply and quite unconsciously committed to alphabeticism—is that of number. . . . But, despite this recognition, there has been no sustained attention to mathematical writing even remotely matching the enormous outpouring of analysis, philosophizing, and deconstructive ope…
Just Figures? Forensic Clairvoyance, Mathematics, and the Language Question
A written symbol long recognized as operating non-alphabetically—even by those deeply and quite unconsciously committed to alphabeticism—is that of number... But, despite this recognition, there has been no sustained attention to mathematical writing even remotely matching the enormous outpouring of analysis, philosophizing, and deconstructive opening up of what those in the humanities have come simply to call "texts." Why, one might ask, should …
Judith Butler
An introductory guide to the work of Judith Butler, a major contemporary theorist, this title includes a new interview with Butler. "Judith Butler: Live Theory" is an invaluable introduction to the work of this key contemporary theorist, guiding the student through the most complex ideas of one of the most influential thinkers in contemporary culture. Concise, accessible and comprehensive, the book explores and illuminates Butler's important and …
Subject to Natural Law
Re-writing
Tracing Life
Tracing Life:"La Vie La Mort" Vicki Kirby (bio) The sign and divinity have the same place and time of birth. The age of the sign is essentially theological. Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology . . . if deconstruction were reduced to one single thesis, "it would pose divisibility: différance as divisibility." Martin Hägglund, Radical Atheism So farewell, elements of reality! David Mermin, Entanglement With the passing of Jacques Derrida it is inevita…
Anthropomorphism, Again
Anthropomorphism, Again Vicki Kirby (bio) The subject of life is no ordinary object for contemplation. Any ambitious description will inevitably involve awkwardness and paradox because the pure metaphoricity of life's manifest, its morphogenetic exuberance, witnesses an ability to embrace the very properties and capacities of whatever it is defined against. As we will see, even when life is apparently snuffed out, finished, exhausted, and done, D…
Feminist conversations with Vicki Kirby and Elizabeth A. Wilson
Initial Conditions
Metaphysical terms like science, matter, nature, and reality have always been in limbo in critical theory; scholars have deconstructed and problematized and critiqued them, yet they still will not go away. Debates over science's relationship to discourse and knowledge particularly revolve around the extent to which science's objects are "real" or, put more formally, to what extent objects of human inquiry exist outside their investigation. This e…
Quantum Anthropologies
Human Exceptionalism on the Line
Human Exceptionalism on the Line Vicki Kirby (bio) Given the advantage of hindsight, it seems fair to say that Jacques Derrida retained an enduring interest in the question of human exceptionalism throughout his career. Since he was a thinker of origins, we should not be surprised by his forensic attention to what is particular about human genesis—those capacities whose unique achievement and comparative complexity are purportedly without precede…
Visceral politics
Transgression
Attempting to explain the how, what, and why of normativity has exercised the attentions of social analysts for centuries, remaining an enduring puzzle in sociology since its disciplinary inception. A nest of related riddles attend the subjectivation of the individual, or how the social gets under our skin. How does an outside (social norms, grids of intelligibility, and behavioral compliance) also articulate the inside (personal belief and consc…
Matter out of Place
A collection of essays that rethinks what constitutes materiality: offers a non-reductionist methodology for rethinking the agency of nature.
What if Culture was Nature all Along
Gives you the tools to navigate towards a non-reductionist naturalism where matter is chameleon and agential New materialisms argue for a more science friendly humanities, ventilating questions about methodology and subject matter and the importance of the non-human. However, these new sites of attention – climate, biology, affect, geology, animals and objects – tend to leverage their difference against language and the discursive. Similarly, que…
Autoimmunity
A centipede was happy - quite!Until a toad in funSaid, 'Pray, which leg moves after which?'This raised her doubts to such a pitch,She fell exhausted in the ditchNot knowing how to run.Katherine Cra
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