Post-Deconstructive Thought and Criticism

Criticism of Benacerraf’s Criticism of Modern Eleatics

I analyze here Benacerraf’s criticism of Thomson arguments on the impossibility of ω-supertasks. Although Benacerraf’s criticism is well founded, his analysis of Thomson’s lamp is incomplete. In fact, it is possible to consider a new line of argument, which Benacerraf only incidentally considered, based on the functioning laws of the lamp. This argument leads to a contradictory result that comp...

The Auto-deconstructive Image: of Vestigial Places

The deconstruction of Christianity is an ongoing project for Jean-Luc Nancy. Apart from La Déclosion (2005a), the book which contains the central texts he has written on this topic, themes and ideas pertaining to that project persistently appear in his earlier writings on visual art, where he places art at the heart of such deconstruction.1 For a clearer understanding of its multiple aspects, i...

The Art of Criticism? Criticism as Art!

Dialectic and Social Criticism

other approaches. The first of these is `material thinking' (das materielles Denken): `a contingent consciousness that is absorbed only in material stuff', a form of thought which is rooted in existing conditions and cannot see beyond them. At the `opposite extreme' is the transcendent critical method of `argumentation' (das Räsonieren), which involves `freedom from all content and a sense of v...

Deconstructive Discourse Analysis: Extending the Methodological Conversation

Discourse analysis is increasingly becoming a methodology of preference amongst qualitative researchers. There is a danger, however, of it being viewed as a bounded and uncontested domain of research practice. As discourse analysis is inextricably linked with theoretical issues, it is a dynamic practice that is constantly in a process of revision. In this paper I reflect on some of the conceptu...