In Defence of 'Noir Theory': Laruelle, Deleuze, and Other Detectives. (May 2020)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- In Defence of 'Noir Theory': Laruelle, Deleuze, and Other Detectives. (May 2020)
- Main Title:
- In Defence of 'Noir Theory': Laruelle, Deleuze, and Other Detectives
- Authors:
- Coley, Rob
- Abstract:
- What happens when theory falters? A concern with the anthropocentric limitations of critical thought dominates contemporary cultural theory. For Joanna Zylinska, however, this concern often reflects a longstanding humanist anxiety, one that is today renewed in the form of 'noir theory', a reactionary scholarship that redeems the universalist human as the subject of reason. There is, though, more than one mode of noir theory, and a certain tendency of 'noir' affords the basis for theorizing another kind of universalism, a non-reactionary account of the real. This article takes seriously the allusion to noir as a particular mode of detection. Its investigation begins with Gilles Deleuze, who commends crime fiction for providing an image of thought that works against humanist orthodoxy. Yet present circumstances demand investigating a blacker kind of noir, one that operates negatively, a noir theory that can be detected in the strange realism of François Laruelle.
- Is Part Of:
- Theory, culture & society. Volume 37:Number 3(2020)
- Journal:
- Theory, culture & society
- Issue:
- Volume 37:Number 3(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 37, Issue 3 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0037-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 123
- Page End:
- 144
- Publication Date:
- 2020-05
- Subjects:
- Gilles Deleuze -- detection -- difference -- François Laruelle -- noir -- posthuman -- realism
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http://www.uk.sagepub.com/home.nav ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1177/0263276419881686 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0263-2764
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