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  • Untimely Actualities
    Dubreuil, Laurent

    Diacritics, 10/2016, Volume: 44, Issue: 3
    Journal Article

    Marx had already attempted to transform the world through philosophy, Hegel and Kant were at times commenting on the event of the day, and even Plato was constantly reflecting on the social and political norms of daily life. The novelty was that “theory” would consider the dimensions of psychic agency, the becoming of concepts, the sociohistorical conditions of an epoch, the material and epistemic culture as well as the thought allowed by works of art, altogether and at the same time. ...Kristina Mendicino’s study of newswriting in Heinrich Heine helps us situate the diffracted historicity of our “untimely actualities.”