â[A]nother kind of rainâ: Aesthetic Ontology and Contagious Imaginations in Althusserâs Aleatory Materialism
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One of the remarkable features of recent interest in the work of Louis Althusser has been the prominence granted to Althusserâs cultural criticism. However, aside from one notable exception, Althusserâs cultural criticism has not figured prominently in discussions of his late work, and the absence of Althusserâs cultural criticism from those discussions has perhaps unwittingly obscured both the genealogy of Althusserâs late aesthetic ontology and the logic of his last texts, of âThe Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounterâ and related writings on aleatory materialism. By tracing the genealogy of the aleatory impulse in Althusserâs cultural criticism, it is possible to show how that work resonates in Althusserâs late texts including the larger unpublished manuscript from which âThe Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounterâ has been drawn. This reading of the philosophy of the encounter also allows us to understand the importance of Nicolas Malebranche for Althusserâs aleatory materialism.
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â[A]nother kind of rainâ: Aesthetic Ontology and Contagious Imaginations in Althusserâs Aleatory Materialism
In: Historical MaterialismSearch for other papers by Thomas Carmichael in
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Abstract
One of the remarkable features of recent interest in the work of Louis Althusser has been the prominence granted to Althusserâs cultural criticism. However, aside from one notable exception, Althusserâs cultural criticism has not figured prominently in discussions of his late work, and the absence of Althusserâs cultural criticism from those discussions has perhaps unwittingly obscured both the genealogy of Althusserâs late aesthetic ontology and the logic of his last texts, of âThe Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounterâ and related writings on aleatory materialism. By tracing the genealogy of the aleatory impulse in Althusserâs cultural criticism, it is possible to show how that work resonates in Althusserâs late texts including the larger unpublished manuscript from which âThe Underground Current of the Materialism of the Encounterâ has been drawn. This reading of the philosophy of the encounter also allows us to understand the importance of Nicolas Malebranche for Althusserâs aleatory materialism.
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