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From Information Theory to French Theory: Jakobson, Lévi-Strauss, and the Cybernetic Apparatus
Geohegan investigates the history of media, technology, global science, and the assembly of what he term the cybernetic apparatus. With the term apparatus he offers two interrelated phenomena in mind. First, from the 1940S through the early 1960s, Claude Levi-Strauss and his collaborator, the Russian linguist Roman Jakobson, hailed the potential of recently developed media instruments and techniques to validate structural research and modernize the human sciences. In this regard, the cybernetic apparatus refers to instruments and techniques--including mathematical procedures, diagrammatic strategies, and technologies--that acted as material aids or guides to research. Second, he refers to how the politics of knowledge enabled these material instruments and techniques to morph into ostensibly immaterial ideals that furnished researchers with procedures for investigations unhindered by historical, political, or disciplinary difference.
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كلود ليفي-شتراوس : البنيوية في مشروعها الأنثروبولوجي
في هذا الكتاب عرض مكثف، وبالغ الغنى في الوقت ذاته، لعمل كلود ليفي- شتراوس في أوجهه المتعددة، يتجلى من خلاله ما قدمته البنيوية ليس على صعيد الأنثربولوجيا وحسب، اختصاص ليفي -شتراوس الدقيق، بل أيضا على صعيد الرؤية الكونية عموما، والعلاقة بين الثقافة والطبيعة، وما يوحد البشرية جمعاء على مستوى بنى الحضارات العميقة. واللافت ان كل ذلك أنما يقدم من وجهة نظر نقدية، وبقلم عالم بارز في الأنثربولوجيا يضاهي ليفي- شتراوس ويخالفه سواء في المنهج، ام في أدوات البحث، أم في الرؤية الفلسفية التي تقف خلف ذلك كله. كتاب من الوزن الثقيل مكتوب ببساطة تجعله متاحا للقارئ العام دون أن تبسيط مخل أو ابتدال.
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The Structural Study Of Myth And Totemism
Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Lévi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field. First published in 1967.
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'Close, very close, a b'gwus howls': the contingency of execution in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach
Appleford examines the contingency of execution in Eden Robinson's Monkey Beach. The most crucial type of contingency with respect to the novel is the contingency of execution for the limitations of the medium or cultural materials, and the resistance they offer to the author fuel the creative tension in the novel and expose the fallacy of the Aboriginal artist as engineer.
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The double twist
The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude Lévi-Strauss' \"Canonical Formula.\" The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless.
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Structuralism
Although structuralism is no longer the fashionable critical mode it was in the 1960s and 1970s, it still underlies most theoretical discourse (everything labelled ‘poststructuralist’, ‘semiotic’ or even ‘deconstructionist’ builds upon structuralist concepts) and is of particular relevance to the study of fantasy. The very origins of the structural analysis of literature are tied to traditional fantastic genres such as fairy tale and myth, and structuralist approaches remain useful as correctives to critical assumptions about the pre-eminence of realism as a literary mode.Most histories of structuralism trace it back to linguistics. Ferdinand de Saussure's lectures on language, assembled by his students as the influential Course in General Linguistics (1916), sorted out syntax, speech sounds and even the generation of meaning into orderly systems of parts and features. Saussure's scientific approach to language was imitated by other disciplines, including anthropology, art history, psychology and literary criticism. In each case, the approach was to break down a cultural product or expression into a set of constituent parts and then examine the way those parts were articulated, like boiling a body down to a set of bones and then assembling the bones into a skeleton. One might as easily describe the structure of a skyscraper or a psyche; a kinship system or a myth. This approach was both liberating and limiting: liberating because it did not assume that the essential structure of a thing was related to its apparent form or to the conscious intentions of its creator, and limiting because it tended to flatten out differences and to mistake the structure for the functioning whole.
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Claude Lévi-Strauss
Lévi-Strauss is one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century yet he is a very private and isolated figure, who has been reticent about himself. This book, first published in 1983,provides a fascinating insight into his character through a careful reading of the more speculative passages of his books and interviews. His personal existential and psychological orientation is explored through a structural analysis of Tristes Tropiques, his most personal book, and his writings on art, nature and civilization and through a consideration of his debt to Rousseau. Dr Pace examines in depth Lévi-Strauss's critique of cultural evolutionism and his attack on the notion of world history. He assesses the political implications of Lévi-Strauss's own interpretation of human progress through an examination of his debates with Sartre and other Marxists in the 1950s and 1960s and his subsequent movement to the right. The author's concern throughout is to place the world-view of this great French anthropologist in the context of twentieth-century intellectuals' struggle to come to grips with cultural relativism and the 'problem' of the primitive.
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