Memory Assemblages : Spectral Realism and the Logic of Addition / Hilan Bensusan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bensusan, Hilan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Metaphysics.

Realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024]

Summary:

Hilan Bensusan's 'Assemblages: Spectral Realism and the Logic of Addition' explores the concept of memory and its relationship with the past. The book challenges traditional metaphysical ideas by proposing that memory is inherently flawed yet revealing, as it continuously interacts with external additions. This interaction forms the basis of what Bensusan calls 'spectral realism,' where the past is constantly reshaped by new influences. The work aims to bridge philosophical discussions on memory, realism, and spectrality, making it relevant for scholars in philosophy and related fields. The author emphasizes the importance of understanding memory's role in shaping reality and critiques Western metaphysical assumptions. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

Introduction: The Speculative and the Spectral

Adding Something to the Past

The Spek- root

The Spectral Turn

Toward a Spectral Realism

Haunted Chungara

Spectral Ultrametaphysics and Post-nihilist Marxism: The Book

1 The Principle of Addition

Addition

In the Beginning: A Fable and a Tale

Addition, Origin, Memory

Retention and Retrieval

Inheritance

Memory Assemblages

Duration

Foreshadowing and Forgetting

Exterior and Posterior: The Core Idea of the Book

2 The Diachrony of Addition

Messianicity

Remembering

Deictic Past

The Rain of Swerves

Struction

Diffraction

Recurrence

Challenging Separability, Determinacy, Sequentiality

3 The Hauntology of Addition

The Transcendence of Excess

The Economy of Addends

Addition and Specters

Spectral Realism

Disjunctology

Napënapëri and Xawarari

Specters and Cosmopolitics

The Spectral Ultrametaphysics of Addition

4 The Logic of Addition

Post-Cantorian addends

Paths to Ineffectivity

Addition and Time

A Shifting Block

Addends and Supplements

Minimal Logics

Truth and Retention

Negation as a Ready-Made Operation

n + 1: The Secret Life of Memory

Coda: Toward a Spectral Marxism

The Fortune Told by Marx

Production

Post-Nihilist Marxism

Notes

References

Index.

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ISBN:

9781350460331

1350460338

9781350460317

1350460311

9781350460324

135046032X

OCLC:

1450104885