In Graham Harman's Guerrilla Metaphysics he states that Derrida et al have
become orthodoxy, that real power now lay with the object rather than
language used to describe it. If you concede this, a whole world of
representation magically conceals itself. Whether this is new or not is
another question. To put a film philosophy spin on it, try accounting for
the 'sweded' films in Gondry's Be Kind Rewind and see if you can
successfully 'represent' them. That is, I think the crisis.
rwm
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Thanks, Russell, for this interesting reference. But the question still
remains: what is so new about this crisis?
H
> The speculative realists would have the crisis as corellationism, and see
the answer as an object oriented ontology.
> rwm
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> On 27/11/2011, at 9:20 PM, "Henry M. Taylor" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi all
>>
>> A philosophical query: in postmodern/contemporary cultural theory one
comes across the notion of a 'crisis of representation.' Yet is this a new
phenomenon? Isn't there already a 'crisis of representation' with Plato's
allegory of the cave, and later, with Kant's concept of the noumenon, with
the unrepresentability of the thing itself ('das Ding an sich') ? So in this
respect, what would be new about this crisis today?
>>
>> Thanks for all your thoughts,
>>
>> Henry
>>
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