In this presentation, I examine the doubleness of the thing that is usually masked by the appropriative tendencies of life. Once the enigma of thingliness is given its place, the influence of its own non-intentional ...

In this article, I place Orhan Pamuk's novel The Museum of Innocence into dialogue with Sigmund Freud's theory of the fetish. As Gerhard Neumann argues, the fetish provides the basic pattern for the modern subject and its ...

This paper takes as its point of departure Husserl’s claim that the only world we can speak of is the one given in consciousness or that presents itself to intuition. Husserl’s insistence on the world’s status as a phenomenon ...

Opening questions about "things" onto the bureaucratically-maintained, compartmentalized discursive, disciplinary claims of "philosophy," "theory," and "poetry," "Urgent Matter" explores these three terms in relation to ...