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Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy after the New Media

Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy after the New Media book, Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine), and (most surprisingly) the neglected late work of the Frankfurt School film theorist Siegfried Kracauer. All of these readings point up crucial aspects of these European thinkers that have been neglected by most Anglo-American theorists. I found Rodowick’s reading of Foucault particularly valuable, because his careful reconstruction (with some help from Deleuze) of how Foucault explores the “chiasma” between the visible and the expressible (p. 75) and rethinks the possibilities of similitude and affirmation gives the lie to the still all-too-common misreading of Foucault as a grim, reductive thinker of totalizing power and monolithic discourse. Rodowick is to be commended for not just writing another celebratory or condemnatory book about “postmodernism” (a term he disdains) or digital culture, but instead reflecting upon the question of what new intellectual tools we need to think meaningfully and critically about such things as digital networks, virtual reality, and the ubiquity of digitized “information. It’s not for nothing that this book begins with the Deleuzian ” question, “what does it mean ‘to have an Idea’?” (p. 1). The Idea of the figural allows us to come to grips with the new situation in which “discourse encompasses expression http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Comparative Literature Duke University Press

Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy after the New Media

Shaviro, Steven
Comparative Literature , Volume 55 (3) – Jan 1, 2003
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Copyright 2003 by University of Oregon
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book, Gilles Deleuze’s Time Machine), and (most surprisingly) the neglected late work of the Frankfurt School film theorist Siegfried Kracauer. All of these readings point up crucial aspects of these European thinkers that have been neglected by most Anglo-American theorists. I found Rodowick’s reading of Foucault particularly valuable, because his careful reconstruction (with some help from Deleuze) of how Foucault explores the “chiasma” between the visible and the expressible (p. 75) and rethinks the possibilities of similitude and affirmation gives the lie to the still all-too-common misreading of Foucault as a grim, reductive thinker of totalizing power and monolithic discourse. Rodowick is to be commended for not just writing another celebratory or condemnatory book about “postmodernism” (a term he disdains) or digital culture, but instead reflecting upon the question of what new intellectual tools we need to think meaningfully and critically about such things as digital networks, virtual reality, and the ubiquity of digitized “information. It’s not for nothing that this book begins with the Deleuzian ” question, “what does it mean ‘to have an Idea’?” (p. 1). The Idea of the figural allows us to come to grips with the new situation in which “discourse encompasses expression

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