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Editorial introduction

Editorial introduction ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 9 number 2 august 2004 n intellectual and political concern ac- Aquires actuality in the continuity of its being addressed. What is addressed is repeated, recapitulated and reframed within that conti- nuity. If there is a way of understanding an approach that is truly interdisciplinary, then it is not found in the positing of an intersection of differing discursive practices occurring within any one written text. Such a procedure undoes EDITORIAL specificity and therefore precludes the possibility of a critical intervention by blurring, if not INTRODUCTION removing, the site of intervention itself. Interdis- ciplinarity emerges when different practices op- erating together – in the guise of different texts andrew benjamin – address the “same” topic. The topic – now a topos – becomes the site of a complex layering dimitris vardoulakis and weaving of concerns. No longer is such a place to be conceptualized in terms of the same- ness of identity. The “same” henceforth takes on THE POLITICS OF the quality of a locus of divergent practices that, given a certain configuration, opens up possibili- PLACE ties by allowing for productive affinities. Rather than having a simple existence, any such topic http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 9 number 2 august 2004 n intellectual and political concern ac- Aquires actuality in the continuity of its being addressed. What is addressed is repeated, recapitulated and reframed within that conti- nuity. If there is a way of understanding an approach that is truly interdisciplinary, then it is not found in the positing of an intersection of differing discursive practices occurring within any one written text. Such a procedure undoes...
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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 9 number 2 august 2004 n intellectual and political concern ac- Aquires actuality in the continuity of its being addressed. What is addressed is repeated, recapitulated and reframed within that conti- nuity. If there is a way of understanding an approach that is truly interdisciplinary, then it is not found in the positing of an intersection of differing discursive practices occurring within any one written text. Such a procedure undoes EDITORIAL specificity and therefore precludes the possibility of a critical intervention by blurring, if not INTRODUCTION removing, the site of intervention itself. Interdis- ciplinarity emerges when different practices op- erating together – in the guise of different texts andrew benjamin – address the “same” topic. The topic – now a topos – becomes the site of a complex layering dimitris vardoulakis and weaving of concerns. No longer is such a place to be conceptualized in terms of the same- ness of identity. The “same” henceforth takes on THE POLITICS OF the quality of a locus of divergent practices that, given a certain configuration, opens up possibili- PLACE ties by allowing for productive affinities. Rather than having a simple existence, any such topic

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