Knowledge Commons | Jonathan Basile | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/jonothink/activity/ Activity feed for Jonathan Basile. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:42:26 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d891676893ac36f7e88de19040249921 Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863585/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:57 -0400 This article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]

]]> 0 08ff459a47fb8f74c818afe21a150986 Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863584/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:56 -0400 This article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]

]]> 0 6857ecb6bcc6252d11d236f2a37217f0 Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863583/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:48 -0400 This article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce9e4750914ee9fd6c7a07e43cd7f012 Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863582/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:38 -0400 This article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec8386cd8180dbb61624b17815282e44 Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863581/ Sat, 04 Nov 2023 03:00:36 -0400 This article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]

]]> 0 0fd3f9d0ca5ace019ef654a3e30eccb1 Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1863559/ Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:30:59 -0400 This article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]

]]> 0 02fa693d03d8a9321faa1811acb7e26f Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816651/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:24:39 -0400 Lynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 019f9b875a15d85ea37bce8e8be326c5 Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816650/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:24:36 -0400 Lynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 1810e2c366b6cb54ada7b4866644b48c Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816649/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:24:28 -0400 Lynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 dd68a6581f53a44a1a9c0df59c6245e3 Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816648/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:24:18 -0400 Lynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee86927a8046bc07986cecc5fd8d39c1 Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816647/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 02:24:16 -0400 Lynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 6eb7c985bba4e5f06ebaee8e05403c23 Jonathan Basile deposited Symbioautothanatosis: Science as Symbiont in the Work of Lynn Margulis https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1816493/ Wed, 05 Oct 2022 05:49:47 -0400 Lynn Margulis’s writing about symbiosis has profoundly influenced contemporary evolutionary theory, as well as continental and analytic philosophy of science, the materialist turn, and new materialism. Nonetheless, her work, and all symbiosis or evolution, is founded on a paradox: symbiosis fictionalizes customary accounts of the origin and e…[Read more]

]]> 0 060790432e8c133de31c2db671e397ef Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad's Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1708308/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:48:58 -0400 Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e2fd8c34222522aa46d7115afd281ea Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad's Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708307/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:48:53 -0400 Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]

]]> 0 290b5aa24dd87e9604f671a2039e8cbe Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad's Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708306/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:48:51 -0400 Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]

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]]> 0 eb1b48ee801fea6cb2ddcea3bc4bb44b Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad's Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1708304/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 03:48:43 -0400 Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]

]]> 0 38d08723de692432606658effc261c06 Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad's Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1708295/ Sun, 13 Sep 2020 19:35:41 -0400 Karen Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]

]]> 0 0523e9122c4d4d0e1e343d7661dc2ee9 Jonathan Basile's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1684135/ Wed, 15 Apr 2020 19:26:45 -0400 0 68b6d1096317d58bfcf77e8cc6997811 Jonathan Basile deposited Kant's Parasite: Sublime Biodeconstruction in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1679166/ Sun, 23 Feb 2020 16:25:35 -0500 In Kant's Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]

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]]> 0 a7605292fbfe48cf2147424d326d92be Jonathan Basile deposited Kant's Parasite: Sublime Biodeconstruction https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1679133/ Sun, 23 Feb 2020 02:48:42 -0500 In Kant's Critique of Judgment, his exploration of how something like life (organized matter) can appear to the faculties of a finite consciousness makes life as possible as it is impossible. A passing reference Kant makes to the idea that every organ of an organism can be seen as a parasite is taken as a lever to deconstruct his notion of…[Read more]

]]> 0 0b0f97f09b99e7065b9e6fa049cf1a0c Jonathan Basile deposited Massa por Argamassa: A Biblioteca de Babel e o Sonho da Totalidade in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670100/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:26:38 -0500 Massa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto “A Biblioteca de Babel” é um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele é imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contém todas as combinações possíveis de…[Read more]

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]]> 0 cb3dec4f9276bd10bbbcbbdefa0fa934 Jonathan Basile deposited Massa por Argamassa: A Biblioteca de Babel e o Sonho da Totalidade in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670098/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:26:30 -0500 Massa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto “A Biblioteca de Babel” é um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele é imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contém todas as combinações possíveis de…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb3dec4f9276bd10bbbcbbdefa0fa934 Jonathan Basile deposited Massa por Argamassa: A Biblioteca de Babel e o Sonho da Totalidade in the group Latin American Literature https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670097/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:26:30 -0500 Massa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto “A Biblioteca de Babel” é um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele é imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contém todas as combinações possíveis de…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf9bed979dbc2473096e9533b8aca194 Jonathan Basile deposited Massa por Argamassa: A Biblioteca de Babel e o Sonho da Totalidade in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670096/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:26:12 -0500 Massa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto “A Biblioteca de Babel” é um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele é imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contém todas as combinações possíveis de…[Read more]

]]> 0 eb7d9e1628e8b86c57d8bf98898927c7 Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670095/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:26:07 -0500 A review of a series of interviews with prominent political theorists (Wendy Brown, Braidotti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Negri, Vogl, Esposito, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Angela McRobbie). All of them reflect on contemporary political crises and the concept of crisis itself. This review considers their political positions as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 bbafda954c9b8f4e4012f2847ec35f8f Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis in the group LGBTQ Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670094/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:26:05 -0500 A review of a series of interviews with prominent political theorists (Wendy Brown, Braidotti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Negri, Vogl, Esposito, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Angela McRobbie). All of them reflect on contemporary political crises and the concept of crisis itself. This review considers their political positions as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 d9d0db157fe38b8491d589f9549576ed Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis in the group Gender Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670093/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:26:00 -0500 A review of a series of interviews with prominent political theorists (Wendy Brown, Braidotti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Negri, Vogl, Esposito, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Angela McRobbie). All of them reflect on contemporary political crises and the concept of crisis itself. This review considers their political positions as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 f82b24c2e8b0a59b7d085c4e82ad4f7e Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis in the group Environmental Humanities https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670092/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 16:25:56 -0500 A review of a series of interviews with prominent political theorists (Wendy Brown, Braidotti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Negri, Vogl, Esposito, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Angela McRobbie). All of them reflect on contemporary political crises and the concept of crisis itself. This review considers their political positions as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 c7239f16366eca4b064a2564baa94e86 Jonathan Basile deposited Massa por Argamassa: A Biblioteca de Babel e o Sonho da Totalidade https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670054/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 03:57:36 -0500 Massa por Argamassa apresenta uma exploração profunda de um dos maiores ilusionistas da literatura, Jorge Luis Borges. Seu conto “A Biblioteca de Babel” é um exemplar ilustre de sua capacidade lúdica, embora não somente devido ao mundo invertido que nele é imaginado, no qual uma biblioteca, que supostamente contém todas as combinações possíveis de…[Read more]

]]> 0 1cd0ce6283be2c7335089ce4dfba1780 Jonathan Basile deposited Stijn De Cauwer, ed. Critical Theory at a Crossroads: Conversations on Resistance in Times of Crisis https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1670049/ Thu, 14 Nov 2019 03:06:07 -0500 A review of a series of interviews with prominent political theorists (Wendy Brown, Braidotti, Jean-Luc Nancy, Negri, Vogl, Esposito, Tariq Ali, Saskia Sassen, Maurizio Lazzarato, and Angela McRobbie). All of them reflect on contemporary political crises and the concept of crisis itself. This review considers their political positions as well as…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec6387652d5670524dee33cd278782a8 Jonathan Basile deposited Who's Afraid of AAARG? The Crisis of Academic Publishing and the Uncertain Future of the Humanities in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1667156/ Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:26:35 -0400 This essay situates the file-sharing website AAARG (primarily used to share academic texts in the humanities) in the context of the economics of the contemporary academy. Contingent employment prevents access to research libraries, while reduced library budgets and the exploitative practices of publishing conglomerates such as Elsevier limit…[Read more]

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]]> 0 e30d20e9d0f7492570d30feab5c5479b Jonathan Basile deposited On Exactitude in Maps in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1667044/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:26:02 -0400 Published 5/4/2016: A deconstruction of distant reading and a close reading of Jorge Luis Borges' "On Rigor in Science." The undecidability of the political and conceptual borders of the story challenges the possibility of any absolutist and orientalist cartographic project (such as Moretti's literary mapmaking). Implications for the digital…[Read more]

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]]> 0 68c15b724bbc90e794ea5a6937bb9ecb Jonathan Basile deposited On Exactitude in Maps in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1667040/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:25:35 -0400 Published 5/4/2016: A deconstruction of distant reading and a close reading of Jorge Luis Borges' "On Rigor in Science." The undecidability of the political and conceptual borders of the story challenges the possibility of any absolutist and orientalist cartographic project (such as Moretti's literary mapmaking). Implications for the digital…[Read more]

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]]> 0 0bcd8e5d853e41fb161c6e0af37810e8 Jonathan Basile deposited How the Other Half-Lives: Life as Identity and Difference in Bennett and Schrödinger in the group Science Studies and the History of Science https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666833/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:26:52 -0400 This essay deconstructs Jane Bennett’s and Erwin Schrödinger’s theories of life to demonstrate the untenability of defining life on the basis of either identity (relation to self) or difference (relation to other). Because the living thing is undecidably self and other, its traditional bond to the self-relation of teleology is untenable. Yet reli…[Read more]

]]> 0 548c72a8063d6d5b2c584253c90215a2 Jonathan Basile deposited How the Other Half-Lives: Life as Identity and Difference in Bennett and Schrödinger in the group Science and Technology Studies (STS) https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666832/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:26:51 -0400 This essay deconstructs Jane Bennett’s and Erwin Schrödinger’s theories of life to demonstrate the untenability of defining life on the basis of either identity (relation to self) or difference (relation to other). Because the living thing is undecidably self and other, its traditional bond to the self-relation of teleology is untenable. Yet reli…[Read more]

]]> 0 fa8283b2b201d56e9498e1a8f52e1b25 Jonathan Basile deposited How the Other Half-Lives: Life as Identity and Difference in Bennett and Schrödinger in the group Philosophy https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666831/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:26:48 -0400 This essay deconstructs Jane Bennett’s and Erwin Schrödinger’s theories of life to demonstrate the untenability of defining life on the basis of either identity (relation to self) or difference (relation to other). Because the living thing is undecidably self and other, its traditional bond to the self-relation of teleology is untenable. Yet reli…[Read more]

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]]> 0 55580f0f6091784c4e98b2178e1f8277 Jonathan Basile deposited How the Other Half-Lives: Life as Identity and Difference in Bennett and Schrödinger in the group Animal Studies https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1666829/ Fri, 18 Oct 2019 16:26:42 -0400 This essay deconstructs Jane Bennett’s and Erwin Schrödinger’s theories of life to demonstrate the untenability of defining life on the basis of either identity (relation to self) or difference (relation to other). Because the living thing is undecidably self and other, its traditional bond to the self-relation of teleology is untenable. Yet reli…[Read more]

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