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the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion

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In a traditional teleological novel, the ending will either decide or fulfill that arc.

—p.54 PART 1: FICTION IN THE REAL WORLD (1) by Matthew Salesses
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11 months ago


between two linguistic and narrative teleological poles

—p.xi Preface: David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing" (vi) by Marshall Boswell
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7 years ago


if the phenomenology and the teleology of suicidality are the same as that of addiction, it seems fair to say that David died of boredom

—p.45 Farther Away (15) by Jonathan Franzen
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6 years, 9 months ago


The vanguard-function differs from the teleological understanding of the vanguard whose sway over the Marxist tradition helped engender vanguardism

quoting Rodrigo Nunes

—p.195 Afterword: Reinventing the Future (185) missing author
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6 years, 7 months ago


in the Nineties rave culture [...] there was a sensation of teleology, a palpable feeling that something was unfolding through the music

—p.370 You Remind Me of Gold: Dialogue with Mark Fisher and Simon Reynolds (365) by Simon Reynolds
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5 years, 3 months ago


From a more general point of view, the New Left condemns the reigning fetishism of growth and the teleology of ‘modernization’ in China and their disastrous social and ecological effects

—p.130 The Nation-State: Persistence or Transcendence? (108) by Gregory Elliott, Razmig Keucheyan
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6 years, 6 months ago


'Teleology', thinking of life, language and history in terms of its orientation to a telos or end, is a way of ordering and ranking meanings in a hierarchy of significance, creating a pecking order among them in the light of an ultimate purpose.

—p.131 Post-Structuralism (127) by Terry Eagleton
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6 years, 6 months ago


In this modelling we have a teleology--the linear passing through different modes of production in which communism solves the riddle of history

—p.8 by Benjamin Noys
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6 years, 3 months ago


Marx hoped, of course, for some kind of socialist or communist revolution (and at various points took a somewhat teleological view of the inevitable progression towards communism)

—p.114 The Question of Technology (107) by David Harvey
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6 years, 6 months ago


The world financial market is mirrored in the world art market, thrown open by the end of modernism and its Eurocentric canon of masterworks, along with the implicit or explicit teleology that informed it.

—p.122 Aesthetics of Singularity (101) by Fredric Jameson
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6 years, 7 months ago


role in the immanent teleology of world history

—p.134 The Pragmatist's Progress: Umberto Eco on Interpretation (131) by Richard M. Rorty
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6 years, 6 months ago

The controversy between those who see both our species and our society as a lucky accident, and those who find an immanent teleology in both, is too radical to permit of being judged from some neutral standpoint.

—p.xxxii Introduction (xvi) by Richard M. Rorty
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6 years, 7 months ago


A nerve-rich sense organ right between the sharpest, hardest bones powered by the strongest muscles: There was antiteleological argument.

(the tongue)

—p.13 by Tony Tulathimutte
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6 years, 7 months ago


recognition theory--insofar as it is now understood as a teleological conception of social justice

—p.180 Redistribution as Recognition: A Response to Nancy Fraser (110) by Axel Honneth
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6 years, 4 months ago


Ghost In The Shell reminds us that there is no technological teleology escape hatch out of gendered oppression

pretty

—p.62 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author
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5 years, 3 months ago


It seems to inject a teleological aspect that is not present in the older formulation

on the "action principle" evolution of Newton's laws

—p.53 Metaphysics in the Royal Society 1715-2010 (38) by Neal Stephenson
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6 years, 10 months ago


in the gathering dusk the place acted upon my young senses in a curiously teleological way, as if this accumulation of familiar things in the dark were doing its utmost to form the definite and permanent image that repeated exposure did finally leave in my mind

—p.89 by Vladimir Nabokov
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4 years, 6 months ago


Obama’s speeches spelled out a world in shining absolutes; that was his teleological endpoint

—p.93 Bridges to Nowhere (84) missing author
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4 years, 3 months ago


Above all, however, these various ways of representing history as a teleology presuppose the combination of two theses which are independent of one another

—p.89 Time and Progress: Another Philosophy of History? (80) by Étienne Balibar
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6 years, 6 months ago

the family complex constituted by the teleologies of historical progress in the bourgeois era

—p.xiii Introduction to the New Edition: From Althusserian Marxism to the Philosophies of Marx? Twenty Years After (xi) by Étienne Balibar
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6 years, 6 months ago


for whom that anti-teleology is integrally related to his broader project for literature

on DFW as someone who resists ending

—p.22 "I'm a Man of My--" Wallace and the Incomplete (21) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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6 years, 9 months ago

The teleological imperative of postmodernism is to will its own decline, to question itself into silence, which is Wallace's central problem with it.

—p.6 Introduction (1) by Clare Hayes-Brady
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6 years, 9 months ago


The gesture of the savage who pauses for an instant to reflect whether or not he wishes to eat his prisoner contains teleologically the end of violence

—p.7 The Role of Theory (1) by Theodor W. Adorno
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6 years, 3 months ago


No wonder that genuine revolutionary moments are so rare: no teleology guarantees them; they hinge on whether there is a political agent able to seize a (contingent, unpredictable) opening.

—p.105 Prognosis (90) by Slavoj Žižek
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6 years, 7 months ago


Is there a whole which can teleologically justify and thus redeem or sublate an event such as the Holocaust?

—p.153 Allegro: (151) by Slavoj Žižek
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6 years, 8 months ago

The use of the expression usually reserved for homosexuals (masturbation ‘brings selflove out of the closet’) hints at a kind of implicit teleology of the gradual exclusion of all otherness: first, in homosexuality, the other sex is excluded (one does it with another person of the same sex).

thank you Slavoj Zizek for explaining what homosexuality is

—p.28 Adagio ma non troppo e molto espressivo: (8) by Slavoj Žižek
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6 years, 8 months ago


Marx's theory of history is not a "teleological" one. A teleological theory holds that each phase of history arises inexorably from what went before.

—p.59 Chapter Three (30) by Terry Eagleton
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6 years, 6 months ago


a possible history of transcending capitalism – but an open-ended history, not yet written and without any teleological guarantees

—p.149 Domination, Liberation (105) by Frédéric Lordon
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6 years, 8 months ago


Here, history functions as a teleological process that determines the final nature of its characters and the course of events

—p.70 Wong’s Biographical Histories of Knights Errant: Ashes of Time (65) by Stephen Teo
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3 months ago