Quantum Anthropologies: Life at Large by Vicki Kirby (English) Paperback Book

Description: Quantum Anthropologies by Vicki Kirby A leading feminist theorist rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description In Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstructions implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of textuality and representation are specific to the domain of culture. Revisiting Derridas claim that there is "no outside of text," Kirby argues that theories of cultural construction developed since the linguistic turn have inadvertently reproduced the very binaries they intended to question, such as those between nature and culture, matter and ideation, and fact and value. Through new readings of Derrida, Husserl, Saussure, Butler, Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty, Kirby exposes the limitations of theories that regard culture as a second-order system that cannot access-much less be-nature, body, and materiality. She suggests ways of reconceiving language and culture to enable a more materially implicated outcome, one that keeps alive the more counterintuitive and challenging aspects of poststructural criticism. By demonstrating how fields, including cybernetics, biology, forensics, mathematics, and physics, can be conceptualized in deconstructive terms, Kirby fundamentally rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science. Notes A leading feminist theorist rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science Author Biography Vicki Kirby is Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of Judith Butler: Live Theory and Telling Flesh: The Substance of the Corporeal. Table of Contents Preface: The Question of Supplementarity - A Quantum Problematic viiAcknowledgments xiii1. Anthropology Diffracted: Originary Humanicity 12. Just Figures?: Forensic Clairvoyance, Mathematics, and the Language Question 223. Enumerating Language: "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics" 494. Natural Convers(at)ions: Or, What if Culture Was Really Nature All Along? 685. (Con)founding "the Human": Rethinking the Incest taboo 896. Culpability and the Double-Cross: Irigaray with Merleau-Ponty 111Notes 137Works Cited 155Index 163 Review "Vicki Kirby is a leading theorist of new materialist approaches to feminism, and Quantum Anthropologies is a work of great significance. It is a theoretically sound and robust challenge to our most deeply held ideas about nature versus culture. Provocative, smart, and invigorating, it is a book to think with, one with far-reaching implications for science studies, cultural studies, and poststructuralist, feminist, queer, political, and social theory." Karen Barad, author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning "To read Vicki Kirbys work is to encounter feminist theory as if for the first time--the urgency, impact and sheer pleasure of feminist politics are being written anew. Quantum Anthropologies deliberates on our most elemental questions (What is the body? What is nature?) and argues, brilliantly, for ontologies that are systemic patternments of textuality and humanicity. This is a fearless book that will deepen and intensify the kinds of feminist questions that can be asked in the generation ahead." Elizabeth A. Wilson, Emory University Promotional A leading feminist theorist rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science Review Quote "Vicki Kirbys Quantum Anthropologies : Life at Large has the capacity to influence a wide range of contemporary scholars ranging from the humanities to the natural sciences and back again. Its elegant yet complex title reveals a lot of what the book has to say." - Iris van der Tuin, Somatechnics Details ISBN0822350734 Author Vicki Kirby Short Title QUANTUM ANTHROPOLOGIES Language English ISBN-10 0822350734 ISBN-13 9780822350736 Media Book Format Paperback Illustrations Yes Publisher Duke University Press Year 2011 Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Life at Large Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States Birth 1950 Publication Date 2011-08-10 UK Release Date 2011-08-10 AU Release Date 2011-08-10 NZ Release Date 2011-08-10 US Release Date 2011-08-10 Pages 184 DEWEY 149 Audience Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:131533195;

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