Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life
Author:   David Wills
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   35
ISBN:  

9780816698868


Pages:   328
Publication Date:   25 March 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life


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Inanimation offers a fresh account of what life is and theethical and political consequences that follow from this conception. DavidWills identifies and explores three major forms of inorganic life: autobiography,translation, and resonance. Informed by Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze,Wills discovers life-forms well beyond textual remainders and translations.

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Author:   David Wills
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Volume:   35
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780816698868


ISBN 10:   0816698864
Pages:   328
Publication Date:   25 March 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface Introduction: Doubled Lives Part I. Autobiography 1. Automatic Life, So Life: Descartes 2. Order Catastrophically Unknown: Freud 3. The Blushing Machine: Derrida Part II. Translation 4. Living Punctuations: Cixous and Celan 5. Naming the Mechanical Angel: Benjamin 6. Raw War: Schmitt, Jünger, and Joyce Part III. Resonance 7. Bloodless Coup: Bataille, Nancy, and Barthes 8. The Audible Life of the Image: Godard 9. Meditations for the Birds: Descartes Acknowledgments Notes Index

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David Wills is professor of French studies and comparative literature at Brown University. He is the author of Prosthesis and Dorsality: Thinking Back through Technology and Politics (Minnesota, 2008).

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