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2The Common Being: An OutlineSymposium 28 (1): 53-78. 2024.In this article, I revisit Karl Marx’s claim in his Economic and Phil-osophic Manuscripts of 1844, that the subject in its “individual existence is at the same time a social being.” I redefine what has been translated as “social being” as “common being” in order to extrapolate an understanding of subjectivity that is a socio-ontological and collectively structured collectivity. In doing so, I demonstrate (1) that this common being is a collection of different socio-ontological traits; (2) that i…Read more
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2Karen Barad and the Unresolved Challenge of CollectivityTechnophany 2 (1). 2023.In this paper, I start by pointing out that despite their differences, Slavoj Žižek and Karen Barad share an understanding of the notions of relationality, processuality, and immanence as central tenets of materialist philosophy. As I argue, however, it is collectivity that acts in both Žižek’s and Barad’s works as a safety valve that lends immanence, processuality, and relationality their materialist quality. To support this argument, I demonstrate that certain forms of collectivity underlie th…Read more
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5Shrapnels: Jacques Derrida’s Theory and PracticeSymposium 27 (1): 77-95. 2023.Jacques Derrida’s lectures on Theory and Practice leave a lot to be desired from the perspective of historical materialism. Yet, one can nonetheless find in them the germ of a genuine understanding of materialism. More specifically, following the systematic use of the word “enigma” in the text, I show that this term serves as the heu-ristic device for articulating an originally Derridean materialism, one which I name “enigmatic materialism,” and which, I argue, is genuinely collective, insofar a…Read more
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11Quertreiber des Denkens: Dieter Thomä - Werk und Wirken (edited book)transcript Verlag. 2019.Im Zeitalter der Hochspezialisierung sind sie selten geworden, die Philosoph*innen, die an der Universität wie im Feuilleton gleichermaßen zuhause sind. Dieter Thomä ist einer dieser Wenigen. Ob in leichtfüßigen Kolumnen oder in tiefschürfenden Studien zur Geistesgeschichte - stets gilt sein Interesse den Unruheherden innerhalb von Ordnungen, den Umschlagspunkten, an denen ein System kippt. In vier Jahrzehnten publizistischer Tätigkeit hat er der Philosophie neue Gegenstände erschlossen und die …Read more
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9Quertreiber des Denkens: Dieter Thomä - Werk Und Wirken (edited book)Transcript Verlag. 2019.Im Zeitalter der Hochspezialisierung sind sie selten geworden, die Philosoph*innen, die an der Universität wie im Feuilleton gleichermaßen zuhause sind. Dieter Thomä ist einer dieser Wenigen. Ob in leichtfüßigen Kolumnen oder in tiefschürfenden Studien zur Geistesgeschichte - stets gilt sein Interesse den Unruheherden innerhalb von Ordnungen, den Umschlagspunkten, an denen ein System kippt. In vier Jahrzehnten publizistischer Tätigkeit hat er der Philosophie neue Gegenstände erschlossen und die …Read more
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19Kollektivitäten im Zwiestreit: Verheißungen, Ambivalenzen, FallstrickeZeitschrift Für Kultur- Und Kollektivwissenschaft 4 (1): 7-20. 2018.
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13EinleitungIn Emmanuel Alloa, Michael G. Festl, Federica Gregoratto & Thomas Telios (eds.), Quertreiber des Denkens: Dieter Thomä - Werk Und Wirken, Transcript Verlag. pp. 7-12. 2019.
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21Critical Matter: Diskussionen eines neuen Materialismus (edited book)Edition Assemblage. 2013.Die Frage nach einem neuen Materialismus hat gegenwärtig quer durch die Disziplinen Konjunktur. Dabei wird Materie oder 'Matter' nicht länger als passiver Träger von Bedeutung, Diskursen oder menschlicher Manipulation verstanden, sondern die Eigensinnigkeit und Kontingenz der materiellen Welt betont. Dieser Band versammelt Beiträge, die die bislang massgeblich im englischsprachigen Raum und auf theoretischer Ebene stattfindende Debatte aufgreift und sie mit Blick auf ihr gesellschaftskritisc…Read more
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8PrefaceIn Thomas Telios, Dieter Thomä & Ulrich Schmid (eds.), The Russian Revolution as Ideal and Practice: Failures, Legacies, and the Future of Revolution, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-17. 2019.The Russian Revolution is a historical milestone both politically and theoretically. Its supporters found in it the consummation of all history that preceded it and the springboard towards a new history absolved from all grievances. Its opponents saw in it a violent coup d’ etat leading to the destruction of a state, the beginning of the division of the world in two hostile camps and last but not least one of the paradigmatic examples of an almost unprecedented authoritarianism. This book examin…Read more
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7Postscript: Communist Subjectivity and the Politics of CollectiversalismIn Thomas Telios, Dieter Thomä & Ulrich Schmid (eds.), The Russian Revolution as Ideal and Practice: Failures, Legacies, and the Future of Revolution, Springer Verlag. pp. 283-308. 2019.This article begins by acknowledging the legacy of both the French and the Russian Revolution in establishing collectivity as the core element of revolutionary process par excellence. Nevertheless and as the paper argues, both “the people” and “the party” as paradigmatic collectivities failed to implement the totality of their goals due to the fact that in the course of the revolutions they instantiated, those collectives were universalized and as such they forfeited their collective, diverse ch…Read more
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19Resisting the Creativity NarrativeSymposium 23 (1): 31-55. 2019.After its proliferation as a primarily psychological term in the literature of the late 1960s, creativity has since advanced to a core notion also for sociology. The first part of the paper tackles “the creativity narrative” according to three paradigmatic readings brought forward by Luc Boltanski and Ève Chiapello, Maurizio Lazzarato, and most recently Andreas Reckwitz. Despite the insightful accounts that those readings provide concerning the entanglement of creativity to capitalist ways of pr…Read more
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5The Russian Revolution as Ideal and Practice: Failures, Legacies, and the Future of Revolution (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2019.This volume aims to commemorate, criticize, scrutinize and assess the undoubted significance of the Russian Revolution both retrospectively and prospectively in three parts. Part I consists of a palimpsest of the different representations that the Russian Revolution underwent through its turbulent history, going back to its actors, agents, theorists and propagandists to consider whether it is at all possible to revisit the Russian Revolution as an event. With this problematic as a backbone, the …Read more
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15Collectivity as Critical Model: Pace Adorno?Zeitschrift Für Kultur- Und Kollektivwissenschaft 4 (1): 209-234. 2018.
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14Satire & Parodie – Konturen der Hegelschen Subjektbildung bei Hans-Georg Gadamer und Judith ButlerHegel-Jahrbuch 2015 (1). 2015.
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