Incongruity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4846426 |
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| Authors | John Paul Ricco (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 156-164 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | differences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-7391 • E-ISSN: 1527-1986 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10407391-10435716 |
| OpenAlex | W4382025803 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
This essay considers Leo Bersani's concept of "incongruity" as a key term in his thinking of ethical relation and, specifically, as a description of the desynchronized movement and impersonal configuration of bodies, psyches, thoughts, and things, in which the formal mobilization of aesthetic perceptions of sameness replaces the immobilizing forces of desirous knowing and difference. Highlighted is the way in which sameness is not based on a single predicate of commonality, but instead obtains in similar forms of movement that inaugurate correspondences with others and the world. This sheds light on Bersani's familiar notions of inaccurate replication and homo-narcissism within his broader exploration of potential intimacies pleasurably discovered via a sense of universal sameness as opposed to the often murderous fixation on identity and difference
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Narcissism · Perception · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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