concepts

a travelogue

Bernd Herzogenrath

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9781501375309
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781501375316
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Philosophy History & Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

This book foregrounds that English monolingualism reduces both our linguistic and conceptual resources, presenting concepts from the cultures of 4 continents and 26 languages.

Concepts seem to work best when created in the interspace between theory and praxis, and between philosophy, art, and science. Deleuze himself had generated many concepts in this encounter between philosophy and non-philosophy, including his ideas of affects and percepts, of becoming, the stutter, the rhizome, movement-image and time-image, the rhizome. What happens, if instead of "other disciplines," we take other cultures, other languages, other philosophies? Does not the focus on English as a hegemonic language of academic discourse deny us a plethora of possibilities, of possible Denkfiguren, of possible concepts?

Each contributor explores ideas that are key to thinking in their language – about sound and silence, voice and image, living and thinking, the self and the world - while simultaneously addressing the issue of translation. Each chapter demonstrates that translation itself is a way of invention, rather than just a rendering of concepts from one system in terms of another. This collection acts as a travelogue. The journey does not follow a particular trajectory-some countries are not on the map; some are visited twice. So, there is no claim to completeness involved here-it is rather an invitation to answer to the call.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Concepts Bernd Herzogenrath
• 1 Anaesthesis, Sensoma, Veoma: Cyborg Life Modes of Immersion After Deleuze Liana Psarologaki
• 2 Antropofagia: Devouring Experimentations of a Manifesto Toward a Kinosophy to Come Sebastian Wiedemann
• 3 Autofotografija, Or; A Nonhuman Selfie Ana Peraica
• 4 Bazaar: The Persistence of the Informal Bhaskar Sarkar
• 5 上善若水/ Be (Like) Water: Media Dynamics and Multiple Realities Helena Wu
• 6 ćmiatło and świecień: Jacek Dukaj’s Concepts in the Perspective of Philosophy of Visual Media and Telecommunication Agnieszka Dytman-Stasieńko and Jan Stasieńko
• 7 Darshan: Vision as Touch and the Stakes of Immediacy Kajri Jain
• 8 Dhvāni: Resonance Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
• 9 Gestell: Heidegger’s Cyborg and the Vicissitudes of the Machine | Body Bernd Herzogenrath
• 10 Góng (空) | Saek (色): The Ineffable Persistence of Becoming Woosung Kang
• 11 Hiljaa: Silent and Slow Media Use Jukka-Pekka Puro and Veli-Matti Karhulahti
• 12 kō kō kà, the Sound of Colonial Shoes: Forgotten Words of a Yoruba Song of Success Babson Ajibade
• 13 L’Implèxe: What’s in a Situation? Holger Schulze
• 14 Ljom—A Meditation Erik Steinskog
• 15 Māya: A Measured Response in and to Cinematic Virtual Reality Soudhamini
• 16 Mediataju: A Sense of Media Jukka Sihvonen
• 17 Myslet médii. Thinking in, With, or Through Media: Images, Interfaces, Apparatuses Vít Pokorn
• 18 Naqqāli: Iranian Storytelling in Two Films by Ali Hātami Behrooz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
• 19 肉声: The Fleshly Voice Gretchen Jude
• 20 ОТКАЗ (OTKAZ): From Expressive Movement to a Figure of Thought Julia Vassilieva
• 21 رند , or Rend (Origin Persian) Mohammad Hadi
• 22 Sankofa—A Synthesis Didi Cheeka
• 23 Saudade: (De)mythologizing a Portuguese Concept Susana Viegas
• 24 Schalten und Walten: Toward Operative Ontologies in the Digital Iconosphere Lorenz Engell
• 25 Seken: Webs and Networks of In-Betweenness Sebastian Kawanami-Breu and Shintaro Miyazaki
• 26 Tathāgatagarbha: Translating the Untranslatable Victor Fan
• 27 Todetita: Facebook’s Ontological Malady Bogdan Deznan and Andrei Ionescu
• 28 Togliere di scena Lucia D’Errico
• 29 Ubuntu: Be-ing Becoming (Capable of Being Affected) Chantelle Gray
• 30 Uri (우리 [ʊri]): Sound and the Porous Self Suk-Jun Kim
• 31 “Utbrytningsdröm”: Swedish Audio-Visual Expressions of a Desire for Leaving Far Andreas Jacobsson
• 32 Wellevenskunst Rick Dolphijn
• 33 Line and Bump Cora Bender
• Contributors
• Index of Subjects
• Index of Names