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The Mark of Theory : Inscriptive Figures, Poststructuralist Prehistories /

What imaginaries, tropes, and media have shaped how we theorise? 'The Mark of Theory' argues that inscription constitutes one of the master metaphors of contemporary theory. As a trope that draws on a wide array of practices of marking, from tattooing to circumcision, from photographic imp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bachner, Andrea (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • At the scene of inscription
  • Savage marks: subjection and the specters of anthropology
  • Impact erasure: psychoanalysis and the multiplication of trauma
  • Stings of visibility: picture theories and visual contact
  • Out of the groove: aural traces and the mediation of sound
  • Against inscription?