...William V. Spanos Duke University Press 2000 5983 b2 27:1 / sheet 157 of 237 The Question of Philosophy and Poiesis in the Posthistorical Age: Thinking/Imagining the Shadow of Metaphysics...

... Michel Foucault’s notion of “the thought of the outside,” whereby the domineering speaking subject of knowledge disappears in the infinite boundedness of language. Restless flying, it is argued, is elemental of what I term poiēsis in black , referencing a set of practices-of-living articulating...

...Leah Feldman This essay explores alternative forms of political solidarity through a poiesis of longing that connects the Soviet aligned “South” in Kyrgyzstan and nonaligned “South” in decolonizing Algeria through a reading of two love stories by the Kyrgyz author and diplomat Chingiz Aitmatov...

... or creator creator or poet ‘‘Poets which is Greek for ‘‘creators NS, 376 The making is poetry, poiesis Hölderlin, Dichterisch wohnet der Mensch auf dieser Erde Heidegger there is only poetry Love’s Body, the key...

... is author of two groundbreaking books, (Dis)forming the American Canon: The Vernacular of African Arabic American Slave Narrative (1993) and Sentient Flesh (Thinking in Disorder/Poiēsis in Black) (2020). He is currently working on a book titled Poetic Socialities . He has been a member of the boundary...

... forms, then new lines, new meanings, new forms for old emotions, new truths for new emotions—all this becomes possible. All this rests upon language available, shaped already, sometimes loosened, sometimes coagulated, sometimes keeping irregular time—but potential for poiesis wherever the chance...

... to the root meanings of words, their derivations, the “etyms” of etymology he paired with atoms in Closing Time . So poetry is poiesis , Greek for making. “There is only poetry,” then, is the charter of a fundamental anthropology. What do humans do? They make. There is only the making; there is only...

... conscience, our culture, our national poiesis. June 1992 Tseng 2002.9.12 07:31 ...

..., in the way that history forms and is formed by myth; a history that mythifies, much as a myth that bears history. The poiēsis of this particular mythistorēma is augmented by a fur- ther register: not just fictionalization in/as the real but also response to the specific fictions of the real...

... Gourgouris secularization secular criticism Said poiesis religion negativity Clastres Perhaps we could acknowledge that all that one can really offer in a piece of writing, academic or otherwise, is a reading (conceived in a wider sense). Which is neither to subjectify too much the experience...

...- ary criticism is to stage encounters, the requisite theatricality of which is most apt to convey the historical exigencies that lean on any manifestation of poiēsis in the natural sphere of human-­being. As the radical creation of form, poiēsis is always transformative of the field in which...

...- mation would defeat any useful definition of the term. But at the same time, it makes little sense to think of a bacterium forming meanings or indulging in interpretant poiesis, of its agency (I’ll come back to this point). It makes little sense, in other words, to think of a bacterium in terms...

... [his five POW months] seared into my very being the indis- soluble belongingness of the soul and the body, pain and pleasure, living and dying, Poiesis and excrement, the high and the low, elect and preterit—­ and my revulsion at all transcendental views of human being, interpretation of our...

... activist reading of the poiesis/istoria argument in Aristotle.) I have remarked that, Spivak / Use and Abuse of Human Rights 139 that there is a real epistemic discontinuity between the Southern human rights advocates and those whom they protect.15...

... are beyond the vision of a mere human eye. At one beginning of Western literary criticism and theory in the Eastern Mediterranean millennia ago—and this is the only horizon within which I speak now—Aristotle, in The Poetics , lays out a theory of mimesis, which is also a theory of poiesis , of poetic...

.... In 1989, however, the same critic dismissed each of those influences, especially Emerson, as unnecessary to Stevens. Stevens poetry is creatively worldly, freely recollective, and creatively traditional a poiesis that passes on without the anxious need to decreate in florid prose. Stevens poverty has...

... gathered around them “an anticipation of what one might call plural writing, of the possibility of writing collectively”:48 a plural speech, at which another text bearing this very title openly gestures.49 Blanchot refers to Novalis and his concept of a collective poiesis: “Journals are already...

... and symbols, its implicit or explicit assertions and preconceptions, its basic orga- nizational principles, whatever a community takes for granted and repro- duces thoughtlessly. To speak of society’s poiēsis is to speak of society’s self-alteration, of nothing less than the capacity of society to alter...

... is itself an “art,” that is, an equivocal category encompassing both techne (“tech- nique”) and poiesis (“creation Balibar again: To see politics as an art means, on the one hand, that it is neither an ethical discipline, governed by the categorical imperative of moral...

...- leges identity over difference, (instrumental) reason over poiesis; from a racial, patriarchal, and imperial political perspective that justifies the repre- sentation of its ‘‘Others’’ as inferior and thus subject to its command...