In Defence of 'Noir Theory
Laruelle, Deleuze, and Other Detectives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2352995 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Coley (0000-0002-2271-4261, University of Lincoln, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 123-144 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276419881686 |
| OpenAlex | W2982047480 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 15 |
What happens when theory falters? A concern with the anthropocentric limitations of critical thought dominates contemporary cultural theory. For Joanna Zylinska, however, this concern often reflects a longstanding humanist anxiety, one that is today renewed in the form of 'noir theory', a reactionary scholarship that redeems the universalist human as the subject of reason. There is, though, more than one mode of noir theory, and a certain tendency of 'noir' affords the basis for theorizing another kind of universalism, a non-reactionary account of the real. This article takes seriously the allusion to noir as a particular mode of detection. Its investigation begins with Gilles Deleuze, who commends crime fiction for providing an image of thought that works against humanist orthodoxy. Yet present circumstances demand investigating a blacker kind of noir, one that operates negatively, a noir theory that can be detected in the strange realism of François Laruelle
Aesthetics · Allusion · Anthropocentrism · Art · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Humanism · Literature · Orthodoxy · Political science · Reactionary · Scholarship · Sociology · Subject (documents · Theology · Universalism · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |