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https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.26362/20250205

Ontological Inflections in Post-Paranoid Theory: Epistemic Prison and Ontological Alternatives

Tvrtko Vrdoljak ; University of Cambridge
Darko Vinketa orcid.org/0009-0005-2359-5662 ; University of Rijeka

Sažetak

Has critique run out of steam, as Bruno Latour (2004) famously suggested? In this paper we take a closer look at Judith Butler’s concept of ‘performativity’ as an exemplary case of a certain paranoid epistemological stance in contemporary critical theory more broadly. Whereas Butler’s edifice posits an ‘infinitely distant’ nature as a kind of transcendental occasion which enables the productive work of cultural fictions, thereby confining critique to the realm of language, we seek to offer two plausible alternatives to this epistemic prison: the new materialist approach, which offers an affirmative possibility of theorizing nature, and the value-form reading of Marx, which discovers a certain negativity of value at the heart of contemporary social formations.

Ključne riječi

Judith Butler; new materialism; ontological turn; paranoid epistemology; performativity; value-form theory

Hrčak ID:

340101

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https://hrcak.srce.hr/340101

Datum izdavanja:

27.11.2025.

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