Around the Book
Systems and Literacy
Publication Year: 2010
Published by: Fordham University Press
Title Page, Copyright
Contents
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pp. vii-
Illustrations
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pp. ix-x
Preface: Reaching for the Book
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pp. xi-xxiii
The book you are about to read is the product of a lifetime spent both in freely consorting with other books and in negotiating a rich and diverse, if not comprehensive panoply of systems. The latter have included systems primarily familial...
1. Introduction: Around the Book
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pp. 1-48
There is something congenitally troubled about the history of the book. Always at its wit’s (if not virtual) end, the book is forever actively engaged in its own disappearing act. Even in its various heydays (the papyrus scroll, the illuminated manuscript...
2. Extraterrestrial Kafka: Ahead to the Graphic Novel
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pp. 49-84
There is always something out of this world, by which we probably mean radically weird and inexhaustible, about Kafka. The weirdness arrives in broad strokes and tiny splashes. It encompasses the earth-shaking fictive premises of...
3. Kafka’s Imaginary: A Cognitive Psychology Footnote
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pp. 85-106
What do we mean when we say that an author, in her relentless cultural reprogramming, has not only added to or reconfigured the conventions surrounding a genre or a discourse, but has facilitated the incursion of a different Imaginary? How can...
4. Booking Benjamin: The Fate of a Medium
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pp. 107-137
It’s time, as we say in English, to throw the book at that polymorphous miscreant of reading and writing, Walter Benjamin, to book him, in the patois of American film noir. We can see already that in English there are some hang-ups between...
5. Pulsations of Respect, or Winged Impossibility: Poetic Deconstruction
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pp. 138-162
Among many images for the difficult freedom into which Jacques Derrida led us by the text is the alternation between the opening up of a vast field of linguistic transgression and the constraints upon authentically rigorous decoding and exegesis...
6. Hegel, Glas, and the Broader Modernity
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pp. 163-193
1. Glas is nothing if not an exceptional book, a book whose architecture and scope place it at the farthest reaches of book culture. Yet its highly singular bicolumnar format not only establishes a textual modality of reverberation, supplementarity...
7. Systems, Games, and the Player: Did We Manage to Become Human?
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pp. 194-217
Systems are under siege—in their tangible capacities, their delivery, their resilience, and their conception. We find ourselves at a sociocultural juncture when reading the daily newspaper has become an ordeal. The panoply of the liberatory...
8. Atmospherics of Mood
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pp. 218-243
The present flaneur, whose promenades these days are more often on the channels of the Worldwide Web than on the boulevards of the odd constellation of cities that he frequents, whether Buffalo, Baltimore, Berlin, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London...
9. Thinking Flat Out: Back to Bateson
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pp. 244-275
Nowadays, we would characterize ‘‘Marcel’s’’ grand revelation in Time Regained, the culminating volume of Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past—a discovered conjunction between two landscapes, moods, and mini-climates, if you will, which the narrator...
Notes
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pp. 277-307
Index
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pp. 309-319
E-ISBN-13: 9780823249152
Print-ISBN-13: 9780823232833
Print-ISBN-10: 0823232832
Page Count: 352
Publication Year: 2010
