Structuralism Archives | Alex Taylor / by Alex Taylor Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:22:46 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 IOT on Claude Lévi-Strauss /levi-strauss/ /levi-strauss/#respond Wed, 23 Oct 2013 20:22:46 +0000 /?p=309 BBC’s In Our Time does it again with a wonderful eulogy to Claude Lévi-Strauss. There are some nice insights into Lévi-Strauss’ structuralism and specifically his predispositions to universals and comparative analyses. I hadn’t known about his disagreements with Satre; I can’t say it disappoints me. (Photo ‘borrowed’ from In Our Time) [...]

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Levi-straussBBC’s In Our Time does it again with a wonderful eulogy to Claude Lévi-Strauss. There are some nice insights into Lévi-Strauss’ structuralism and specifically his predispositions to universals and comparative analyses. I hadn’t known about his disagreements with Satre; I can’t say it disappoints me.
(Photo ‘borrowed’ from In Our Time)

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]]> /levi-strauss/feed/ 0 On always already /always-already/ /always-already/#respond Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:00:47 +0000 /?p=2 The phrase “always already” is, in the main, attributed to the poststructuralist philosopher Jaques Derrida. It has, however, come to be a trope for the new materialists and it is in this usage that I modestly take it on. Specifically, my guiding sources are from the feminist technoscience scholars Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, both of whom make heavy use of the phrase to trouble the binaries [...]

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The phrase “always already” is, in the main, attributed to the poststructuralist philosopher Jaques Derrida. It has, however, come to be a trope for the new materialists and it is in this usage that I modestly take it on. Specifically, my guiding sources are from the feminist technoscience scholars Donna Haraway and Karen Barad, both of whom make heavy use of the phrase to trouble the binaries abound in science and technology (subject-object, mind-matter, inside-outside, past-present, etc.).
For some back ground reading see The New Materialist “Always Already”: On an A‑Human Humanities.

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