{"product_id":"symbolism-2019-9783110667486","title":"Symbolism 2019","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpecial Focus editor: Natasha Lushetich\u003cbr\u003eSeries 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","brand":"Natasha Lushetich","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48262621495547,"sku":"9783110667486","price":139.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_8d0057ec-0787-4896-87a9-f19d2a65c51a.jpg?v=1778453197","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/symbolism-2019-9783110667486","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}