{"product_id":"9783110667486","title":"Symbolism 2019 : Special Focus: Beyond Mind (Symbolism 19) (2019. XI, 334 S. 1 b\/w and 10 col. ill. 155 x 230 mm)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial Focus editor: Natasha Lushetich\nSeries editors: Rüdiger Ahrens, Florian Kläger, Klaus Stierstorfer\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSymbolism is cohesive. It gathers heterogeneity over time, across fields of human endeavor and systems of communication. Non-sequiturs, paradox and tautology, \u003cem\u003eappear\u003c\/em\u003e dissipative. Yet they are highly productive in reticular and fractal ways. Suffice it to look at the philosophical tautology of Parmenides's kind, which suggests that being \"is\"; at the practice of the \u003cem\u003ekoan\u003c\/em\u003e, which collapses dualistic thinking by way of incompatible propositions, such as \"the Eastern hill keeps running on the water\"; at logical paradoxes in which the operative logic is sabotaged by its own means, as in Hempel's paradox; at absurdist dramatic texts in which protagonists record empty time in order to mark the emptiness of the time they are recording, as in Beckett's \u003cem\u003eKrapp's Last Tape\u003c\/em\u003e; or at paradoxical games like Maciunas's \u003cem\u003ePrepared Table Tennis\u003c\/em\u003e played with paddles that have huge holes in them. In all of these examples, the existence-apprehending processes occur via unexpected itineraries, in vacant but nevertheless enunciative codes, in seemingly futile, yet calibrating performances, and in a temporality that is the cumulative time's \"other.\" They catapult the mind into the realm of the extra-linguistic, the para-logical and the meta-experiential, or they transfigure it through a series of reticular iterations. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForty years after Varela et al's groundbreaking work on the embodied, emotional and environmentally embedded mind - that marked a definitive departure from its former strictly rational conception - there is a need to re-examine the territory that lies beyond mind for a different reason: the proliferation of algorithmic logics that rely on the idea of a rational agent (human or algorithmic) making logical, self-serving decisions. This special issue explores neither-rational-nor-irrational forms of thinking and making. It sketches a cartography of a-rational processes of meaning- and knowledge-production that operate across numerous sites, practices, and disciplines: visual and media art; literature; art history; music; dance; film; intermedia and photography. Part I \"Ahistoricity, Assemblages and Interpretative Reversals\" focuses on the legacy of the (neo) avant-garde and amodernism. Part II \"\u003cem\u003eDestinerrance\u003c\/em\u003e, Labyrinths and Folds\" investigates the ways in which the Derridian delays\/detours and the Deleuzian folding function as concrete ways of embodied knowledge-production. Part III, \"Immanent Transcendence\", offers a glimpse into the reticular and iterative structuring of transcendence that does not pre-exist immanence but is its residue. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eKlaus Stierstorfer\u003c\/strong\u003e, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany; \u003cstrong\u003eRüdiger Ahrens\u003c\/strong\u003e, Universität Würzburg, Germany; \u003cstrong\u003eFlorian Kläger\u003c\/strong\u003e, Universität Bayreuth, Germany. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Special Focus editor: \u003cstrong\u003eNatasha Lush\u003c\/strong\u003eetich, University of Dundee, UK. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"De Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45364872151119,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":4900.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9783110667486","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}