... part ii The à-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser étienne balibar A great philosophy (and Derrida’s philosophy...

... part ii The à-venir: Undoing Sovereignty and Teleology Eschatology versus Teleology: The Suspended Dialogue between Derrida and Althusser étienne balibar A great philosophy (and Derrida’s philosophy is...

...h 5 Teleologies of Rural Disappearance interpreting rural music The point here is that students who wish to critically assess the position of the peasants in rural society must first come to terms with the images of them. Failure to do so runs the risk of pursuing a...

... world, including teleology and the phenomenological concept of worlding, as resources for a normative conception of world literature. It then summarizes how postcolonial narrative literature draws on different temporalities to resist the destructive force of globalization and enable the emergence of...

... This chapter suggests that decolonization has to be understood in terms of its temporal structure and argues that its teleological time has given way to reassertions of multiple precolonial temporalities because of the failure of the promises of decolonization in postcolonial capitalist...

... his critique of geographical concepts of world and the spiritualist and materialist teleologies of Goethe, Hegel, and Marx. The chapter then examines in greater detail his argument that radically finite temporality is a force of worlding and considers its implications for understanding modern...

... The central claim of this chapter is that Bergson’s élan vital is not a teleology, only a direction. Like the free act, creative evolution allows for determinism only retroactively. Here Jankélévitch lays out Bergson’s method of philosophical intuition, which alone both follows and comprehends...

... multiculturalism. The frustrations, anxieties, and desperation that Pakistani immigrant women experience in Toronto make visible the effects of large-scale social transformations on everyday lives. Their experiences challenge teleologies of success that are reproduced in master narratives of capitalism...

... notion has served to surreptitiously recuperate three axioms of vulgar Marxism: (i) technico-economic determinism; (ii) teleology; and (iii) historical inevitability. This paradox of a Marxist specter haunting globalization is then analyzed in terms of its concrete effects, which include encouraging...

... questions the teleological coming-out discourse that posits the act of leaving home—family, country of origin, or signifiers of one’s assigned sex—as a prerequisite for actualizing one’s lived gender; through the medium of craft, it also disrupts the problematically gendered logic of transnational capital...

... This chapter revisits W. E. B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk in the effort to draw out a relevant tension in the text. On the one hand, Du Bois seems to assimilate black strivings into a progressive, teleological narrative that finds its culmination in the civic nation and the ideals of...

... disjointed quality of time (the present is never coherent and seamless but haunted by complicated pasts). In Ellison’s novel, jazz-informed notions of time cut against and challenge teleological histories associated with Marxism. In Morrison’s novel, jazz-informed ideas and sounds challenge early, optimistic...

... regulation, and this becomes difficult if one projects consciousness down to the cellular level. 86  evan thompson Teleology and “Autopoietic Machines” A number of things I’ve said so far suggest that living beings are in some sense teleological: organisms have an interest in their own being and...

... biological phenomena, although each of its processes can be seen as mechanical ac- tivity, the totality is thought to be unified on the basis of a single end or telos; that is to say, the totality constitutes teleological activity. Even our psychological phenomena are thought to possess a single unity...

... his critique of geographical concepts of world and the spiritualist and materialist teleologies of Goethe, Hegel, and Marx. The chapter then examines in greater detail his argument that radically finite temporality is a force of worlding and considers its implications for understanding modern...

... This chapter suggests that decolonization has to be understood in terms of its temporal structure and argues that its teleological time has given way to reassertions of multiple precolonial temporalities because of the failure of the promises of decolonization in postcolonial capitalist...

... Foreclosure, 97, 157–58. See also ideas, 58; of language, 125; and psy- Lacan, Jacques choanalysis, 11, 35; of teacher- Freud, Sigmund, 10–11, 100, 103, 167 student sex, 63; teleological nature n.3; on the interpretation of of, 88–89, 168 n.1. See also Anec- dreams, 10–11, 96...