On the Nature of Marx's Things : Translation as Necrophilology / / Jacques Lezra

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910480700503321
• Autore: Lezra Jacques
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• ISBN: 0-8232-8152-3; 0-8232-7944-8; 0-8232-7945-6
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: Lit Z
• Altri autori (Persone): MorfinoVittorio
• Disciplina: 193
• Soggetti: LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword: Encounter and Translation -- Introduction -- 1. On the Nature of Marx’s Things -- 2. Capital, Catastrophe: Marx’s “Dynamic Objects” -- 3. Necrophilology -- 4. The Primal Scenes of Political Theology -- 5. Adorno and the Humanist Dialectic -- 6. Uncountable Matters -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: On the Nature of Marx’s Things is a major rethinking of the Marxian tradition, one based not on fixed things but on the inextricable interrelation between the material world and our language for it. Lezra traces to Marx’s earliest writings a subterranean, Lucretian practice that he calls necrophilological translation that continues to haunt Marx’s inheritors. This Lucretian strain, requiring that we think materiality in non-self-evident ways, as dynamic, aleatory, and always marked by its relation to language, raises central questions about ontology, political economy, and reading.“Lezra,” writes Vittorio Morfino in his preface, “transfers all of the power of the Althusserian encounter into his conception of translation.” Lezra’s expansive understanding of translation covers practices that put different natural and national languages into relation, often across periods, but also practices or ; mechanisms internal to each language. Obscured by later critical attention to the contradictory lexicons—of fetishism and of chrematistics—that Capital uses to describe how value accrues to commodities, and by the dialectical approach that’s framed Marx’s work since Engels sought to marry it to the natural philosophy of his time, necrophilological translation has a troubling, definitive influence in Marx’s thought and in his wake. It entails a radical revision of what counts as translation, and wholly new ways of imagining what an object is, of what counts as matter, value, sovereignty, mediation, and even number. In On the Nature of Marx’s Things a materialism “of the encounter,” as recent criticism in the vein of the late Althusser calls it, encounters Marxological value-form theory, post-Schmittian divisible sovereignty, object-oriented-ontologies and the critique of correlationism, and philosophies of translation and untranslatability in debt to Quine, Cassin, and Derrida. The inheritors of the problems with which Marx grapples range from Spinoza’s marranismo, through Melville’s Bartleby, through the development of a previously unexplored Freudian political theology shaped by the revolutionary traditions of Schiller and Verdi, through Adorno’s exilic antihumanism against Said’s cosmopolitan humanism, through today’s new materialisms.Ultimately, necrophilology draws the story of capital’s capture of difference away from the story of capital’s production of subjectivity. It affords concepts and procedures for dismantling the system of objects on which neoliberal capitalism stands: concrete, this-wordly things like commodities, but also such “objects” as debt traps, austerity programs, the marketization of risk; ideologies; the pedagogical, professional, legal, even familial institutions that produce and reproduce inequities today.

What are gamma-ray bursts? [[electronic resource] /] / Joshua S. Bloom

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790953103321
• Autore: Bloom Joshua S. <1974->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-4008-3700-6; 9786613001283; 1-283-00128-4
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (271 p.)
• Collana: Princeton frontiers in physics
• Classificazione: US 1670
• Disciplina: 523.01/97222
• Soggetti: Gamma ray bursts; Stars - Formation
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2. Into the Belly of the Beast -- 3. Afterglows -- 4. The Events in Context -- 5. The Progenitors of Gamma-Ray Bursts -- 6. Gamma-Ray Bursts as Probes of the Universe -- NOTES -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Glossary -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Gamma-ray bursts are the brightest--and, until recently, among the least understood--cosmic events in the universe. Discovered by chance during the cold war, these evanescent high-energy explosions confounded astronomers for decades. But a rapid series of startling breakthroughs beginning in 1997 revealed that the majority of gamma-ray bursts are caused by the explosions of young and massive stars in the vast star-forming cauldrons of distant galaxies. New findings also point to very different origins for some events, serving to complicate but enrich our understanding of the exotic and violent universe. What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? is a succinct introduction to this fast-growing subject, written by an astrophysicist who is at the forefront of today's research into these incredible cosmic phenomena. Joshua Bloom gives readers a concise and accessible overview of gamma-ray bursts and the theoretical framework that physicists have developed to make sense of complex observations across the electromagnetic spectrum. He traces the history of remarkable discoveries that led to our current ; understanding of gamma-ray bursts, and reveals the decisive role these phenomena could play in the grand pursuits of twenty-first century astrophysics, from studying gravity waves and unveiling the growth of stars and galaxies after the big bang to surmising the ultimate fate of the universe itself. What Are Gamma-Ray Bursts? is an essential primer to this exciting frontier of scientific inquiry, and a must-read for anyone seeking to keep pace with cutting-edge developments in physics today.