Intermedialities

Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, Intermedialities: Philosophy, Arts, Politics is a comprehensive collection devoted to the new field of research called 'intermedialities.' The concept of intermedialities stresses the necessity of situating philosophical and political debates on social relations in the divergent contexts of media theories, avant-garde artistic practices, continental philosophy, feminism, and political theory. The 'intermedial' approach to social relations does not focus on the shared identity but instead on the epistemological, ethical, and political status of inter (being-in-between). At stake here are the political analyses of new modes of being in common that transcend national boundaries, the critique of the new forms of domination that accompany them, and the search for new emancipatory possibilities. Opening a new approach to social relations, intermedialities investigates not only engagements between already constituted positions but even more the interval, antagonism, and differences that form and decenter these positions. Consequently, in opposition to the resurgence of cultural and ethnic particularisms and to the leveling of difference produced by globalization, the political and ethical analysis of the 'in-between' enables a conception of community based on difference, exposure, and interaction with others rather than on an identification with a shared identity. Investigations of 'in-betweenness,' both as medium specific and between heterogeneous 'sites' of inquiry, range here from philosophical conceptuality to artistic practices, from the political circulation of money and power to the operation of new technologies. They inevitably invoke the crucial role of embodiment in creative thought and collective acting. As a mediating instance between the psyche and society, matter and spirit, nature and culture, and biology and technology, the body is another interval forming and informed by socio-linguistic relations. As these complex intersections between media, materiality, art, and the philosophy and politics of the in-between suggest, the project of intermedialities provides new ways of rethinking relations among arts, politics, and science.

Henk Oosterling is associate professor of philosophy and director of the Centre for Philosophy & Arts at Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) at Rotterdam. Ewa Plonowska Ziarek is Julian Park Professor of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Chapter 1 General Introduction Part 2 Part I. Interval, Difference, Ecstasy Chapter 3 Chapter 1. Postmodern Turns-Fin de siècle Intermedialities Chapter 4 Chapter 2. In-between "Spacing" and the "chôra" in Derrida: A Pre-originary Medium? Chapter 5 Chapter 3. "Cum" . . . Revisited: Preliminaries to Thinking the Interval Chapter 6 Chapter 4. The Ecstasy of the Between-us Chapter 7 Chapter 5. Intersubjectivity as Unground: Freedom and Mediation in Irigaray and Schelling Part 8 Part II. Art, Technology, Embodiment Chapter 9 Chapter 6. Intermediality and the Equivalency of Time and Space:Manet's Psycho-Chronotope Chapter 10 Chapter 7. Beneath the Skin of the Book: Thinking with Peter Greenaway Chapter 11 Chapter 8. The Medium is the Body: Computer-animated Architecture and Media Art Chapter 12 Chapter 9. Allegro, ma non troppo: On Feminist Becomings Part 13 Part III. The Politics of Inter-esse Chapter 14 Chapter 10. The Body Intermediating Community Chapter 15 Chapter 11. "Forgive me for forgiving you": Derrida, Levinas, and Polish Aporias of Forgiveness Chapter 16 Chapter 12. Respect for the Other and the Refounding of Society: Practical Aspects of Intercultural Philosophy Chapter 17 Chapter 13. Information Imperialism, or "Sir Rupert in the Sky with Die Minds" Chapter 18 Chapter 14. On Resistance in the Digital Age