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Maurice Blanchot’s troubling geography: Neutralizing key spatial and temporal concepts in the wake of deconstruction

Richard Carter-White Orcid Logo, Marcus Doel Orcid Logo, Sergei Shubin Orcid Logo

Progress in Human Geography

Swansea University Authors: Marcus Doel Orcid Logo, Sergei Shubin Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1177/03091325241257536

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In dialogue with recent literatures that have sought to foreground the negative and the abyssal in human geography and that have struggled in vain to prevent their foreclosure, we introduce the work of the French theorist Maurice Blanchot, whose challenging and thought- provoking writings remain lar...

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Published in: Progress in Human Geography
ISSN: 0309-1325 1477-0288
Published: SAGE Publications 2024
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa66404
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Abstract: In dialogue with recent literatures that have sought to foreground the negative and the abyssal in human geography and that have struggled in vain to prevent their foreclosure, we introduce the work of the French theorist Maurice Blanchot, whose challenging and thought- provoking writings remain largely unknown within our discipline despite their significance for deconstructing geography’s conceptual architecture. After explicating Blanchot’s neutralization of the problem of negativity and positivity, the paper brings Blanchot’s neutral writings to bear on three areas of contemporary geographical concern: the trouble with subjectivity and identity; the unhinging of space and time; and the disaster of writing.
Keywords: Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, Deconstruction, Poststructuralism, Negative Geographies, Abyssal Geographies, Neutral Writing
College: Faculty of Science and Engineering
Funders: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: Association of Commonwealth Universities (13685004).

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