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E-book Remain
What remains in the wake of centuries of technological and scientific developments and in the wake of histories of modern progress—which is also to say histories of dispossession, displace-ment, and exploitation? How are remains and remainders, and the process of remaining, to be understood, engaged, and entered into a relationship with? What is the place of remain(s) in a global capitalist, consumerist culture that is constantly rushing after the next “new” thing on the market? What and where are the leftovers of this culture, and how do “we” (consumers of the new) live with what we leave behind? How is the past that is not past, subject as it has been to denials and erasures, to be engaged and lived with—and through? What is the matter and temporality of remains? Andwhy and how does what remains matter?Through their complex relations to times and spaces that are plural and nonhomogeneous, “remain(s)” accumulate a multiplicity of meanings and open a multiplicity of possibilities of thought and (re)encounter. The two essays in this book, by Rebecca Schneider and Jussi Parikka, gesture toward some of these meanings and enact some of these possibilities. This introduction aims to point to an open interval of conversation and exchange between them. Taking my cue from Schneider’s and Parikka’s essays, I begin with a diagram that seeks to stage some of the possibilities of thought gathered around the concept of remain used as a verb, noun, call (hail, imperative), state, or process of becoming.
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