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Stephenson, J. (2025). Continuous discontinuities: More-than-human temporalities in Jean-Luc Nancy’s Sonic Ontology. KronoScope, 24(2), 240–256. Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (11/3/25, 3:14 AM) Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard (11/16/25, 4:03 AM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1163/15685241-20241563 BibTeX citation key: Stephenson2025 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Ontology, Presence, Time Creators: Stephenson Collection: KronoScope |
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"Theorising time as sequential suggests a correspondingly durational and serial reality. This temporality reiterates Western philosophy’s privileging of the present and is symptomatic of greater issues concerning the reluctance of Anthropocene discourses to think outside of time’s passive “givenness”. Contra normative conceptions of time as fundamentally continuous, French metaphysician Jean-Luc Nancy’s notion of “renvoi [return]” – as an ontological echo, a folding back – disrupts traditional temporal narratives, implying a time that is nonlinear. Consonant with renvoi, Nancy’s related thesis of “le corps sonore [the sonorous body]” rethinks bodies through a similar sonic aesthetics – as a certain tension, or tone – exceeding orthodox articulations of beings as somatic and bounded. Both renvoi and corps sonore provide valuable tools for the critique of anthropocentric philosophies which quantise bodies as closed and finite. Subsequently, this paper employs Nancy’s broadly “sonic” realism to critique human exceptionalism, reorienting temporality toward more-than-human ecological processes, as continuous discontinuities."
Added by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard Last edited by: Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard |