Description: Quantum Anthropologies : Life at Large, Paperback by Kirby, Vicki, ISBN 0822350734, ISBN-13 9780822350736, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstruction&;s implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of textuality and representation are specific to the domain of culture. Revisiting Derrida&;s claim that there is &;no outside of text,&; Kirby argues that theories of cultural construction developed since the linguistic turn have inadvertently reproduced the very binaries they intended to question, such as those between nature and culture, matter and ideation, and fact and value. Through new readings of Derrida, Husserl, Saussure, Butler, Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty, Kirby exposes the limitations of theories that regard culture as a second-order system that cannot access&;much less be&;nature, body, and materiality. She suggests ways of reconceiving language and culture to enable a more materially implicated outcome, one that keeps alive the more counterintuitive and challenging aspects of poststructural criticism. By demonstrating how fields, including cybernetics, biology, forensics, mathematics, and physics, can be conceptualized in deconstructive terms, Kirby fundamentally rethinks deconstruction and its relevance to nature, embodiment, materialism, and science.
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Book Title: Quantum Anthropologies : Life at Large
Number of Pages: 184 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Topic: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Popular Culture
Item Height: 0.5 in
Publication Year: 2011
Genre: Social Science
Item Weight: 7.5 Oz
Item Length: 8.8 in
Author: Vicki Kirby
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
