Theory Aside by Jason Potts,Daniel Stout

By Jason Potts,Daniel Stout

Where can concept pass now? the place different voices predicament themselves with theory's existence or dying, the individuals to Theory Aside soak up one other risk: that our theoretical clients are greater served caring much less approximately "what’s next?" and extra approximately "what else?" rather than trying to find the subsequent huge factor, the fourteen fashionable thinkers during this quantity take in traces of suggestion misplaced or ignored in the course of theory's canonization. They show that highbrow development don't need to rely on the invention of a brand new theorist or thought. relocating subtly via a various variety of thinkers and topics—aesthetics, impact, animation and picture stories, bibliography, cognitive technology, globalization, phenomenology, poetics, political and postcolonial concept, race and identification, queer concept, and sociological studying practices—the individuals exhibit extra sustained, much less apocalyptic awareness to principles may perhaps bring about a richer dialogue of our highbrow landscapes and where of the arts and social sciences in it. of their shrink back from the noticeably new, those essays demonstrate that what’s fallen apart nonetheless surprises.

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. Ian Balfour, Karen Beckman, Pheng Cheah, Frances Ferguson, William Flesch, Anne-Lise François, Mark B. N. Hansen, Simon Jarvis, Heather Love, Natalie Melas, Jason Potts, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jordan Alexander Stein, Daniel Stout, Irene Tucker

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