Quantum Anthropologies - 9780822350552

Quantum AnthropologiesLife at Large\nAuthor(s): Vicki Kirby\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822350552, 978-0822350552\nSynopsis\nIn Quantum Anthropologies, the renowned feminist theorist Vicki Kirby contends that some of the most provocative aspects of deconstruction have yet to be explored. Deconstructions implications have been curtailed by the assumption that issues of textuality and representation are specific to the domain of culture. Revisiting Derridas claim that there is no outside of text, Kirby argues that theories of cultural construction developed since the linguistic turn have inadvertently reproduced the very binaries they intended to question, such as those between nature and culture, matter and ideation, and fact and value. Through new readings of Derrida, Husserl, Saussure, Butler, Irigaray, and Merleau-Ponty, Kirby exposes the limitations of theories that regard culture as a second-orde.