... his re-affirmation of a particular Jamesonian version of constructivism, the Marxist spin he puts on loose and generalized notions of “X is a construct” and “everything is narrative.” Jameson’s loyalty to the concept of “ideology” is read here as another moment in his long-lasting dialogue...

...Elizabeth R. Johnson In 1993 Michael Taussig's Mimesis and Alterity revitalized the power of the mimetic faculty to craft a vision of nature that was neither the alienated subject of modern science nor the passively malleable medium of late twentieth-century social constructivism. Taussig drew...

...- ments, however, he has an obligation to do more than exhibit the conse- quences of that deafness. Boghossian’s conflation of constructivism, the sociology of science, the tenets of the Strong Programme, and statements about...

... [into] relativism The other possible answer is that while constructivism does entail some form of relativism, it is not of the objectionable variety.This is the tack taken by Lorraine Code: ‘‘Yet the relativism that my argument generates...

... s thought intersects with many aspects of constructivism. Jon Elster, a con­ structivist thinker, reminds us that, according to Kant, a distinction must be made between passive and active negations. So, for instance, if a propo­ sition states that A believes P, its passive negation would...

...: This book introduces a new metaphysics—a philosophy of presence— that aims to steer a path between the Scylla of naive realism and the Charybdis of pure constructivism. The goal is to develop an integral account...

... 4 view of such nations, of all social identities. This approach portrays the indi- vidual as the only reliable ontological reality and the collective as, in some sense, utterly artificial. Constructivism logically concludes in a formal lib- eral universalism wherein an abstract humanity...

.... In the second half of the twentieth century, the discovery (or invention, depending on the degree of biocultural constructivism we are comfortable with) of hormones, genes, and cellular reproductive processes launched an epistemic paradigm shift, and with it a new model for politico-sexual man...

..., plastic arts, and architecture clearly expresses their as­ signing the topmost position to the Dark Ages, and their rejection of modernity s supposed ascension. The last florescence of the modern­ ist vanguard particularly constructivism and futurism with their furious will to break with the past...

... leap from the concern with contingency to an inten- tionalist constructivism. The institutions of the modern state are certainly constitutively involved in the making of money, but this does not involve the transcendence of the basic modalities of its emergence. It may be more accu- rate to say...

... determines their range. They therefore constitute a perfect example for Einstein s radical constructivism: Repre­ sentation [Schilderung] and verisimilitude [Ahnlichkeit], in which the artist dedicates himself to the intimate study of nature are left behind. A con­ sistent construction [Durchkonstruktion...

... of the razor-sharp irony of cyberpunk and its academic as­ sociate cyborgology and, as Jameson has pointed out, its deep utopian potential.21) This is probably the simplest explanation that can be given for Deleuze s version of constructivism, which is how he came to describe his philosophy.22 The personal...

... intentionality? In the field of systems theory and constructivism, the question about the possibility of a horizon of systemic self-reference is replaced with the assumption of a strictly causal iteration of system-context interactions, or observations of observations. Even if these (self-) observations...

... symbols seemed far more important than social interpretation. Elsewhere in Europe, the formalists acclaimed the true essence of art in cubism, constructivism, or futurism. America s Armory Show of 1913 gave generous attention to this tendency in painting and by the twenties our so-called New Critics took...

... brings to the surface their deeper affinities, which can es­ cape our narrow attention to the operations of constructivism. Although diaspora is the starting point and the theme here, it often yields to other interests and passions. Since it is not understood as a destiny or a punishment, the Irish...

.... Moreover, collapsing distinctions perpetuate kitsch. Rather than pose the question of how art might operate within these faltering boundaries—which might well be the issue at stake for such various avant-garde strategies dating back to Cubist collage, Dada, various forms of Constructivism, and even van...

..., resonate with the meaning of their common root *leg-, to gather, to set in order. Law is logos/account laid down. In order to benefit from the lessons of constructivism (with its emphases 872 Vassilis Lambropoulos on contingency, production, analysis, and institution), but also to avoid the traps...

... that the whole theory was interpreted by the critics as a new version of constructivism, maybe more imbued with reality, but resting on the same epistemological model. The crisis of the intellectuals has played an important role in the growth of nostalgia for positivism. The disappearance of intellectuals...

... on this model of class so as to shift the analysis from relations of oppression between groups to a concern with grouping per se. Few readers of Delphy’s early work on women as a “social class” have recognized the constructivism in her choice of that concept. Yet Delphy’s own constructivist reading...

...- sounding poems threatened to start the whole process anew.When he later effected a retraction of his own, this time playing Yahya Kemal—and the familiar tone of Turkish songs—against Mayakovsky and the constructiv- ists, it was too late: Hikmet was in jail, unable to exert much influence...