James Dutton
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3635100 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Dutton |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Dutton |
| ASSINATURA | DUTTON J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6857-3281 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Sporting futures, beyond automation
Politics Is a Language Google Will Never Know
This article critiques Google’s conversion of knowledge into information from the perspective of linguistic performance. It claims that the political effects of signification are resistant to discrete or fixed translations, where instead the incalculable dimensions of knowledge emerge between languages—that is, in-translation. To do so, the article reads Barbara Cassin’s extensive work on sophistics, untranslatability theory, and Google itself to…
Life inside Logos
This article performs a 'logological' and 'spherological' reading of globalization to critique the topical generality of spatial rhetoric. Posited respectively by Barbara Cassin and Peter Sloterdijk, these seemingly distant theories both show how 'world' is created by discourse - that being is an effect of saying. An appropriately equivocal translation of the Greek logos, discourse is here read as the rhetorical forms of 'inning' that make space …
The Monstrous Mark of Cinema
This article interprets David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001) to argue for the morphological influence cinematic images have on modernity's monstrous identity. It shows how Lynch's tactic of interweaving apparently discrete spaces of dream and reality – one often inverting or uncannily ironising the other – relies on the virtual space of cinema, which leaves a mark on understanding, irrespective of its apparent truth. To do so, I employ Peter Slo…
The Extinction Race
In his article, “The Extinction Race: Techniques of the Human in Proust, via Houellebecq” James Dutton “reads” identity and race from the point of view of technics. Namely, he does so through the work of two nominally “Eurocentric” authors, Marcel Proust and Michel Houellebecq, observing how familial and racial resemblance is a living inscription of “lost time.” This inscription comes about through the technical means available to and constitutiv…
Technically Nothing
This essay will examine what it takes to be two foundational aspects of traditional metaphysics—the “concepts” of nothingness and nature—to offer a critical reading of how they enframe our understanding of “life.” It asserts that these two concepts are the limit point for metaphysical thought: the tangle that emerges when trying to overcome or reimagine them is an impasse encountered in pressing humanist concerns like ecological collapse, nihilis…
Objective Breathing
This article takes up German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's attention to air and atmospheres to argue for the influential part “objective” thinking plays in disseminating viral pandemics. It follows Sloterdijk's broad approach to “air-conditioning” to interpret the way modern cultures increasingly work to explicate and construct objective figures of (and in) air. A fundamental, yet invisible, “anthropopoietic” element, air resists the forms and f…
The Vertigos of Coining
Writing remains. One could argue that it is precisely because of this uncanny and unpredictable survival that inscription holds an inextricable influence on culture. Deconstructive theory posits this as the 'biodegradability' of writing - that culture consumes writing's intended meaning, employing it as fuel for its own survival. In this article, I argue for Michel Houellebecq's awareness of this survival, suggesting that his texts stage their - …
Life-Stories
Life-Stories:How to Write Remains James Dutton (bio) I'll begin with a broad—possibly the broadest—question: what remains? More interestingly, however, the reply should come: what doesn't? The so-called Anthropocene era foregrounds these questions not only in theory and criticism and whatever we do in "Humanities" departments, but as a central concern of "human" culture and politics. From the broad temporality that this era forces us to make sens…
The sumplokē of the narrating voice in A la recherche du temps perdu
This article contends with a primary, yet unresolved, problem in Proust criticism: just who is the narrator of A la recherche du temps perdu? Rather than answering, I seek to de-legitimise the ‘who is’ of this contention. Applying Derrida’s famous critique of ontological presence (parousia) and incorporating his notion of iterability offers a reading by which the narrating ‘voice’ of Proust’s fiction disperses across different characters even in …
Ironic Immunity
This article argues for the importance of irony in Anthropocene discourse. It reads Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu as portraying an “immunitary paradigm” that is grounds for human extinction, exemplified by modern “sustainability” strategies that seek to sustain private property and unequal distribution. In his novel, Proust depicts an “immune” class of hyper-privileged elites, and I suggest that, by reading the irony on which Prou…
Dead Write
This article presents a reading of mourning in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu from the philosophical perspective of Jacques Derrida to imagine a relationship between death and literature. When he writes mourning, Proust works over an irreconcilable abyss – he writes the possibility of mourning, but never writes its completion. In fact, he dies before writing any completion; he dies in deferring it, opening up a mourning for his sig…
Objective Breathing
This article takes up German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's attention to air and atmospheres to argue for the influential part “objective” thinking plays in disseminating viral pandemics. It follows Sloterdijk's broad approach to “air-conditioning” to interpret the way modern cultures increasingly work to explicate and construct objective figures of (and in) air. A fundamental, yet invisible, “anthropopoietic” element, air resists the forms and f…
Technically Nothing
This essay will examine what it takes to be two foundational aspects of traditional metaphysics—the “concepts” of nothingness and nature—to offer a critical reading of how they enframe our understanding of “life.” It asserts that these two concepts are the limit point for metaphysical thought: the tangle that emerges when trying to overcome or reimagine them is an impasse encountered in pressing humanist concerns like ecological collapse, nihilis…
Dead Write
This article presents a reading of mourning in Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu from the philosophical perspective of Jacques Derrida to imagine a relationship between death and literature. When he writes mourning, Proust works over an irreconcilable abyss – he writes the possibility of mourning, but never writes its completion. In fact, he dies before writing any completion; he dies in deferring it, opening up a mourning for his sig…
Life-Stories
Life-Stories:How to Write Remains James Dutton (bio) I'll begin with a broad—possibly the broadest—question: what remains? More interestingly, however, the reply should come: what doesn't? The so-called Anthropocene era foregrounds these questions not only in theory and criticism and whatever we do in "Humanities" departments, but as a central concern of "human" culture and politics. From the broad temporality that this era forces us to make sens…
The sumplokē of the narrating voice in A la recherche du temps perdu
This article contends with a primary, yet unresolved, problem in Proust criticism: just who is the narrator of A la recherche du temps perdu? Rather than answering, I seek to de-legitimise the ‘who is’ of this contention. Applying Derrida’s famous critique of ontological presence (parousia) and incorporating his notion of iterability offers a reading by which the narrating ‘voice’ of Proust’s fiction disperses across different characters even in …
Ironic Immunity
This article argues for the importance of irony in Anthropocene discourse. It reads Marcel Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu as portraying an “immunitary paradigm” that is grounds for human extinction, exemplified by modern “sustainability” strategies that seek to sustain private property and unequal distribution. In his novel, Proust depicts an “immune” class of hyper-privileged elites, and I suggest that, by reading the irony on which Prou…
The Vertigos of Coining
Writing remains. One could argue that it is precisely because of this uncanny and unpredictable survival that inscription holds an inextricable influence on culture. Deconstructive theory posits this as the 'biodegradability' of writing - that culture consumes writing's intended meaning, employing it as fuel for its own survival. In this article, I argue for Michel Houellebecq's awareness of this survival, suggesting that his texts stage their - …
The Extinction Race
In his article, “The Extinction Race: Techniques of the Human in Proust, via Houellebecq” James Dutton “reads” identity and race from the point of view of technics. Namely, he does so through the work of two nominally “Eurocentric” authors, Marcel Proust and Michel Houellebecq, observing how familial and racial resemblance is a living inscription of “lost time.” This inscription comes about through the technical means available to and constitutiv…
Technically Nothing
This essay will examine what it takes to be two foundational aspects of traditional metaphysics—the “concepts” of nothingness and nature—to offer a critical reading of how they enframe our understanding of “life.” It asserts that these two concepts are the limit point for metaphysical thought: the tangle that emerges when trying to overcome or reimagine them is an impasse encountered in pressing humanist concerns like ecological collapse, nihilis…
Objective Breathing
This article takes up German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk's attention to air and atmospheres to argue for the influential part “objective” thinking plays in disseminating viral pandemics. It follows Sloterdijk's broad approach to “air-conditioning” to interpret the way modern cultures increasingly work to explicate and construct objective figures of (and in) air. A fundamental, yet invisible, “anthropopoietic” element, air resists the forms and f…
The Monstrous Mark of Cinema
This article interprets David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001) to argue for the morphological influence cinematic images have on modernity's monstrous identity. It shows how Lynch's tactic of interweaving apparently discrete spaces of dream and reality – one often inverting or uncannily ironising the other – relies on the virtual space of cinema, which leaves a mark on understanding, irrespective of its apparent truth. To do so, I employ Peter Slo…
Politics Is a Language Google Will Never Know
This article critiques Google’s conversion of knowledge into information from the perspective of linguistic performance. It claims that the political effects of signification are resistant to discrete or fixed translations, where instead the incalculable dimensions of knowledge emerge between languages—that is, in-translation. To do so, the article reads Barbara Cassin’s extensive work on sophistics, untranslatability theory, and Google itself to…
Life inside Logos
This article performs a 'logological' and 'spherological' reading of globalization to critique the topical generality of spatial rhetoric. Posited respectively by Barbara Cassin and Peter Sloterdijk, these seemingly distant theories both show how 'world' is created by discourse - that being is an effect of saying. An appropriately equivocal translation of the Greek logos, discourse is here read as the rhetorical forms of 'inning' that make space …
Sporting futures, beyond automation
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