1. The Aleatory Encounter and the Common Name: Reading Negri Reading Althusser.
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Day, Ronald E.
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EPICUREANS (Greek philosophy) , *KAIROS (The Greek word) , *NAMES , *ONTOLOGY , *INFORMATION retrieval , *CROWDSOURCING , *TELEMATICS , *POSTMODERNISM (Philosophy) - Abstract
This article discusses the relation between the concepts of the Epicurean void and the aleatory encounter in Louis Althusser’s late philosophy and the concepts of kairòs and the common name (or common concept; nome comune) in Antonio Negri’s later work. It is important to consider the political efficacy of nome comune in the context of ontological commitments such as the Althusserian void and Negri’s “postmodern” landscape of “total subsumption,” among other reasons because common concepts play important social and political mediating roles in both modern broadcast media and in more recent ranked information retrieval, crowd-sourced information aggregation, and computer mediated communication. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2011
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