The Arachnean and Other Texts
Will be published approx. on 13. October 2026
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Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-1-5179-2289-4 (ISBN)
Description
The network as a mode of being
In 1968, Fernand Deligny established a "network" for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of living; it was a milieu created out of a reflection on the mode of being autistic. What is a space perceived outside of language? What is the form of a movement without perspective or goal? How do we engage with a world that is not our own, a world turned upside down yet truly common, where acting cohabitates with our actions and the unknown with our forms of knowledge? Such is the mythical web of the "Arachnean," made of lines, holes, traces, enigmas, and questions without answers that demand to see that which cannot be seen. The Arachnean and Other Texts is a collection of Deligny's writings from the second half of the 1970s. Long before the digital age of social networks, meshworks, and digital webs, Deligny speaks to us in his own autobiographical and aphoristic manner. For him, life was always experienced in the form of "the network as a mode of being."g."
In 1968, Fernand Deligny established a "network" for informally taking care of children with autism that was more than a mere site of living; it was a milieu created out of a reflection on the mode of being autistic. What is a space perceived outside of language? What is the form of a movement without perspective or goal? How do we engage with a world that is not our own, a world turned upside down yet truly common, where acting cohabitates with our actions and the unknown with our forms of knowledge? Such is the mythical web of the "Arachnean," made of lines, holes, traces, enigmas, and questions without answers that demand to see that which cannot be seen. The Arachnean and Other Texts is a collection of Deligny's writings from the second half of the 1970s. Long before the digital age of social networks, meshworks, and digital webs, Deligny speaks to us in his own autobiographical and aphoristic manner. For him, life was always experienced in the form of "the network as a mode of being."g."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
34
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 171 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5179-2289-4 (9781517922894)
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Fernand Deligny
The Arachnean and Other Texts
Book
02/2015
Univocal Publishing LLC
€54.71
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Persons
Fernand Deligny (1913-1996) was a filmmaker, writer, activist, and educator whose work drew interest from prominent thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Michel de Certeau.
Drew S. Burk is a cultural theorist, editor, and translator of contemporary French philosophy.
Catherine Porter is professor emerita of French at State University of New York, Cortland. She has translated dozens of books, including Philippe Descola's Forms of the Visible: An Anthropology of Figuration.
Drew S. Burk is a cultural theorist, editor, and translator of contemporary French philosophy.
Catherine Porter is professor emerita of French at State University of New York, Cortland. She has translated dozens of books, including Philippe Descola's Forms of the Visible: An Anthropology of Figuration.