A Certain Gesture: Evnine's Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga!

by Simon J Evnine

Overview

A Certain Gesture: Evnine's Batman Meme Project and Its Parerga! is an entirely original kind of work. It takes the form of commentaries on memes made with the image of Batman slapping Robin. The commentaries are written as if they were not authored by the same person who made the memes, allowing the author to consider himself and his work from the outside. The book defies genre by mixing discussions of philosophy, psychoanalysis, Judaism, language, and representation with self-writing and autotheory. These are juxtaposed like the items in a cabinet of curiosities or topics in an analytic patient's free association. Both pre-modern and post-modern in its inspiration, it is cerebral, playful, social, and intensely personal. It contains philosophy, including original philosophical research, but also explores new ways of doing and thinking about philosophy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798987415726
Publisher:	Tell It Slant Press
Publication date:	12/28/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	306
File size:	21 MB
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About the Author

Simon Evnine is a professor of philosophy at the University of Miami, in Florida, USA. Besides working on Batman memes, he is interested in social ontology and the philosophy of language. You can visit his website, simonevnine.com, to find information on his previous books and papers, among other things.

Table of Contents

EPERGA TO THE PARERGA ............................................................................................................... V

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR A CERTAIN GESTURE ........................................................................ VIII

LIST OF FIGURES ............................................................................................................................... XV

PREFACE ............................................................................................................................................ XIX

INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................................. XXI

EVNINE'S BATMAN MEME PROJECT .............................................................................................. 1

AND ITS PARERGA! ........................................................................................................................ 135

APPENDIX: MEMES OMITTED FROM VOLUME I ................................................................... 253

BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................................................................................... 260

INDEX OF MEMES ............................................................................................................................ 272

INDEX OF NAMES ............................................................................................................................ 274

INDEX OF SUBJECTS ....................................................................................................................... 278