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A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 http://www.lexingtonbooks;com Estover Road, Plymouth PL6 7PY, United Kingdom Copyright © 2011 by Hugh J. Silverman Ail rights reserved. No part ofthis book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, inc1uding information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Intermedialities : philosophy, arts, politics / edited by Henk Oosterling and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek. p. cm. - (Textures) Inc1udes bibliographical references and indexes. ISBN 978-0-7391-2735-3 (c1oth : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-7391-2736-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) - ISBN 978-0-7391-4655-2 (electronic) 1. Philosophy.2. Arts. 3. Political science. 1. Oosterling, Henk. II. Ziarek, Ewa Plonowska, 1961- B53.I55 2010 001-dc22 2009052353 8™ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence ofPaper for Printed Library Materials, ANSIINISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America Contents Abbreviations vu General Introduction Henk Oosterling and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek 1 PART ONE: Interval, Difference, Ecstasy Introduction Il 1. Postmodem Tums-Fin de siècle Intermedialities Hugh J. Silverman 15 2. In-Between "Spacing" and the "Chôra" in Derrida: A Pre-Originary Medium? Louise Burchill 27 3. "Cum" ... Revisited: Preliminaries to Thinking the Interval Jean-Luc Nancy and Laurens ten Kate 37 4. The Ecstasy of the Between-Us Luce Irigaray 45 5. Intersubjectivity as Unground: Freedom and Mediation in Irigaray and Schelling Elaine P. Miller 57 PART TWO: Art, Technology, Embodiment Introduction 67 6. Intermediality and the Equivalency ofTime and Space: Manet's Psycho-Chronotope George Smith 71 7. Beneath the Skin of the Book: Thinking with Peter Greenaway Peter Schwenger 79 vi Contents 8. The Medium is the Body: Computer-animated Architecture and Media Art Bernadette Wegenstein 87 9. Allegro, ma non troppo: On Feminist Becomings Rosi Braidotti 99 PART THREE: The Politics of Inter-esse Introduction 115 10. The Body Intennediating Community Rosalyn Diprose 119 Il. "Forgive me for forgiving you": Derrida, Levinas, and Polish Aporias of Forgiveness Dorota Glowacka 127 12. Respect for the Other and the Refounding of Society: Practical Aspects of Intercultural Philosophy Heinz Kimmerle 137 13. Information Imperialism, or <;'Sir Rupert in the Sky with Die Minds" Purushottama Bilimoria and Sally Percival Wood 153 14. On Resistance in the Digital Age Slavoj Zizek 163 Notes 179 Bibliography 203 Index ofNames 215 Index of Topics 219 Contributors 225 Editors 229 Series and General Editor 231 Ab breviations ACPGA David Birch, Tony Schitao, and Sanjay Srivastava, Asia: Cultural Politics in the Global Age (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2001). AT Clement Greenberg, "Toward a Newer Laocoon," in Art in Theory, ed. Charles Harrison and Paul Wood (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992), 562-567. AO Elizabeth Grosz, Architecture from the Outside: Essays on Virtual and Real Spaces (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001). AW F.W.J. Schelling, The Ages oft he World, Third Version (1815), trans. Jason Wirth (New York: State University of New York Press, 2000). BNPD Alan Woods, Being Naked Playing Dead: The Art ofP eter Greenaway (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1996). BP Jean-Luc Nancy, "Corpus" (1992), in The Birth to Presence, trans. Brian Holmes, et al. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), 189-210. CG Rosalyn Diprose, Corporeal Generosity: On Giving with Nietzsche, Merleau- Ponty and Levinas (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002). CL "Globalization and the Humanities," Comparative Literature, special issue, ed. David Leiwei Li, no. 53 (2001). CLRP Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, trans. Richard Howard (New York: Hill & Wang, 1981). CNP Jacques Derrida, "Comment ne pas parler," in Psyché: Inventions de l'autre (Paris: Galilée, 1987), 535-595. D Jacques Derrida, "La Différance," in Marges de la philosophie (Paris: Minuit, 1972), 3-29. DE Peter Eisenman, "Visions Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media," in Digital Eisenman: An Office oft he Electronic Era, ed. Luca Galofaro <Basel, Boston and Berlin: Birkhauser, 1999), 85-91. DI M. Bakhtin, The Dialogic Imagination (1975), ed. Michael Holquist, trans. Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981). DOM DOMUS, 822 (Milano: Domus Spa, January 2000),14-19. E Jacques Lacan, Écrits (1966), trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: W. W. Norton, 1977). ESD Luce lrigaray, An Ethics ofSexual Difference (1984), trans. Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993). ETW Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Early Theological Writings, trans. T.M. Knox (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1948). EOO Luce Irgaray, Entre Orient et Occident: De la singularité à la communauté (Paris: Grasset, 1999). FFC Jacques Lacan, The Four Concepts ofPsycho-Analysis (1973), ed. Jacques- Alain Miller, trans. Alan Sheridan (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978). vii viii Abbreviations FLB Gilles Deleuze, The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (1988), trans. Tom Conley (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993). FPNI Chantal Mouffe, "For a Politics ofNomadic Identity," in Travel!er ~ Tales: Narratives ofH ome and Displacement, ed. George Robertson (New York and London: Routledge, 1994), 102-110. FR Dick Higgins, "Fluxus: Theory and Reception," in The Fluxus Reader, ed. Ken Friedman (Chichester: Academy Editions, 1999), 217-236. FSW Jacques Derrida, "Freud and the Scene ofWriting" (1967), trans. A. Bass, in Writing and Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978), 196- 231. FW Naomi Klein, Fences and Windows (London: Flamingo, 2002). G Jacques Derrida, OfGrammatology (1967), trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976). GD Jacques Derrida, The Gift ofD eath (1993), trans. David Wills (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996). HH Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, Al! Too Human: A Bookfor Free Spirits (1878), Vol. Two, Part One, trans. R. J. Hollingdale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986). HP Brian Massumi, "Navigating Movements," in Hope, ed. Mary Zoumazi (New York: Routledge, 2002), 244-273. IC Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community (1983), trans. Peter Connor, et al. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991). ICPD Iris Marion Young, "The Ideal ofCommunity and the Politics of Difference," Social Theory and Practice, 12(1986), 1-26. ILTY Luce Irigaray, 1 Love to You: Sketch of a Possible Felicity in History (1990), trans. Alison Martin (London and New York: Routledge, 1996). KPM Martin Heidegger, Kant and the Problem ofM e taphysics, trans. Richard Taft (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1997). LIPF Margaret Whitford, Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine (London and New York: Routledge, 1991). MP Gail Schwab, "Women and the Law in Irigarayan Theory," Metaphilosophy, 27 (1996): 146-17 7. MTRSA Phillip Lutgendorf, "AlI in the (Raghu) Family," in Media and the Transformation ofR eligion in South Asia, ed. Lawrence A. Babb and Susan S. Wadley (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995). NF Alicia Imperiale, New Flatness: Surface Tension in Digital Architecture (Basel, Boston "and Berlin: Birkhauser, 2000). NYT Herbert Muschamp, "Instant Inspirations: JustAdd Water," in "Weekend Section"ofThe New York Times (6 April, 2001), B34(N). OF Jacques Derrida, "On Forgiveness" (1997) in On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness, trans. Mark Doley and Michael Hughes (New York: Routledge, 2001), 25-60. Abbreviations IX P Jacques Derrida, "Positions" (1972), interview with Jean-Louis Houdebine and Guy Scarpetta, in Positions, trans. Alan Bass (London: The Athlone Press, 1981). PB Peter Greenaway, The Pillow Book (Paris: Dis Voir, 1996). PC Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1979), trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984). PCL Frederic Jameson, Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic ofL ate Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997). PIEHF F.W.J. Schelling, "Philosophical Investigations Into the Essence of Human Freedom," in Philosophy of German Idealism, ed. Ernst Behler (New York: The Continuum Publishing Company, 1987), 217-310. PP Clement Greenberg, "Modernist Painting," in Postmodern Perspectives, ed. Howard Risatti (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1990), 12-20 .. PR Charles Taylor, "The Politics of Recognition," in Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics ofR ecognition, ed. Amy Gutmann (Princeton University Press, 1994), 25-74. PW Maurice Merleau-Ponty, "Dialogue and the Perception of the Other," in The Prose of the World, trans. John O'Neill (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973),131-146. RR Hal Foster, The Return of the Real (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996). RLW Jacques Derrida, "Racism's Last Word," in Race, Writing, and Difference, ed. Henry Gates, Jr. (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986). 329- 338. SG Luce Irigaray, Sexes and Genealogies (1987), trans. Gillian C. Gill (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993). SJL Jacques Lacan, The Seminars ofJ acques Lacan (1981), Vol. III, The Psychoses, trans. Russell Grigg (New York: Norton, 1992). SMEP Andrew Bowie, Schelling and Modern European Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 1993). SP Jacques Derrida, "Speech and Phenomena," in Speech and Phenomena and s Other Essays on Husserl Theory ofS igns (1967). trans. David B. Allison (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1973). TGC John B. Thompson, "The Globalization of Communication," in The Global Transformations Reader: An Introduction to the Globalization Debate, ed. David Held and Anthony McGrew (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000), 246- 259. TI Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (1961) trans. Alphonso Lingis (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1994). TMP Dan Graham, Two-Way Mirror Power (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999). TN Robert W. McChesney, "It's a Small World of Big Conglomerates," in The Nation (November 29, 1999), 11-15(N). TR Diller + Scofidio, "Blur Building," in TransReal 7 (2000), 50. x Abbreviations TSBS Jonathan Sheuer, The Sound Bite Society (New York: Routledge, 2001). TT Luce Irigaray, To Be Two (1997) trans. Monique M. Rhodes and Marco F. Cocito-Monoc (New York and London: Routledge, 2001). WD Maurice Blanchot, The Writing oft he Disaster (1980), trans. Ann Smock. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995).