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Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Weathering Ambivalences
Between Language and Physics
The chapter engages the nature–culture divide with the generative ambivalences of weathering in both language and physics. Taking the different uses of the enantiosemic and ambitransitive verb as indicative of the human’s fraught relationship with its environment and itself, it analyses multiple ways in which ‘weathering’ can involve subject–object relations, objectless subject–predicate relations, or even subjectless processes, and proposes to think them with mechanics, thermodynamics, and chaos theory.
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Weathering Ambivalences
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| Subtitle |
Between Language and Physics
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| Author(s) |
Christoph F. E. Holzhey
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| Description |
The chapter engages the nature–culture divide with the generative ambivalences of weathering in both language and physics. Taking the different uses of the enantiosemic and ambitransitive verb as indicative of the human’s fraught relationship with its environment and itself, it analyses multiple ways in which ‘weathering’ can involve subject–object relations, objectless subject–predicate relations, or even subjectless processes, and proposes to think them with mechanics, thermodynamics, and chaos theory.
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Berlin
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| Publisher |
ICI Berlin Press
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| Date |
2020
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| Subject |
nature–culture
enantiosemy
ambitransitive verbs
entropy
chaos theory
phase transitions
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| Rights |
© by the author
Except for images or otherwise noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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yes
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| Language |
en-GB
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| short title |
Weathering Ambivalences
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| page start |
3
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| page end |
40
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| Source |
Weathering: Ecologies of Exposure, ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Arnd Wedemeyer, Cultural Inquiry, 17 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2020), pp. 3–40
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