Post-structuralism, Complexity and Poetics.

Dillon, Michael (2000) Post-structuralism, Complexity and Poetics. Theory, Culture and Society, 17 (5). ISSN 1460-3616

[thumbnail of Microsoft_Word_-_TCS_Essay_Submitted.pdf]
Preview
PDF (Microsoft_Word_-_TCS_Essay_Submitted.pdf)
Microsoft_Word_-_TCS_Essay_Submitted.pdf

Download (271kB)

Abstract

Post-structuralism and complexity are plural and diverse modes of thought that share a common subscription to the �anteriority of radical relationality�. They nonetheless subscribe to a different ethic of life because they address the anteriority of radical relationality in different ways. Complexity remains strategic in its bid to become a power-knowledge of the laws of becoming. It derives that strategic ethic from its scientific interest in the implicate order of non-linearity that is said to subvert Newtonian science. Post-structuralism is poetic. It derives its poetic ethic from Heidegger and from the re-working of orphic and tragic sensibilities to radical relationality with the radically non-relational. Observing that all poetry is complexity avant la lettre, the paper illustrates these points with the Odyssey and concludes that while complexity is ultimately concerned with fitness, post-structuralism is pre-occupied with justice.

Item Type:
Journal Article
Journal or Publication Title:
Theory, Culture and Society
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3312
Subjects:
?? sociology and political sciencesocial sciences(all) ??
ID Code:
810
Deposited By:
Deposited On:
06 Dec 2007
Refereed?:
Yes
Published?:
Published
Last Modified:
11 Mar 2024 00:18