Ontology Of Presence Research Articles

»Nærvær« in absentia

Focusing specifically on body art, art historian Amelia Jones questions the »ontology of presence« which informs much performance art and theory. Jones claims that a differentiated reception must involve the immediate performance experience as well as different forms of documentation and historical contextualisation.

Shouting absences: Disentangling the ghosts of Ukraine in occupied Crimea

AbstractThis article aims to illuminate absences in the semiotic landscape of Crimea, resulting from the erasure of Ukraine after Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014. By foregrounding what is not there, the study expands semiotic landscapes studies and critical sociolinguistic research more generally by interrogating absence and its haunting effects. More than 3,500 photographs of semiotic landscapes collected over two months of fieldwork between 2017 and 2019 together with fieldnotes serve as ethnographic data. The production of absence is interrogated through an analysis of its material effects, that is, voids, holes, and blank walls. It concludes that erasure does not simply negate Ukraine. Instead, pasts remain present, visible, and audible in semiotic landscapes. Absences, as part of a relational ontology of materiality, discourse, and affect, shout about complex invisibilized histories of violence. In this way, they suggest the need to probe traditional approaches in semiotic landscape research that rely on an ontology of presence. (Absence, trace, materiality, ghost, spectre, haunting, Crimea, Ukraine, semiotic landscape, linguistic landscape, interdiscursivity)*

Ontologies of Presence

The notion of order, in the matricial sense of the term, is worked upon from a systemic ontological approach focused on abstract entities, therefore, identities, gifted of a nature that is proper to them and that distinguishes them from the concrete entities. Taking, as an exemplary case, the mathematical notion of an n-dimensional Euclidean space, we address the ontology of Euclidean spaces, including the definition of these spaces and a notion of Euclidean topological computation which allows us to address the computational systemic dynamics and hypertextual structure of these spaces. The work concludes with a final reflection on the Euclidean spaces, on ontology of presence and order.

Thinking from the ‘Desamparo’ in Los Incompletos by Sergio Chejfec

This essay explores the ontological dislocation of the nation and the world after the fall of the communist promise and the rise of the neoliberal market through a reading of Los incompletos (2004) by Sergio Chejfec. This novel denarrativizes the neoliberal fantasy of a free community of ‘global citizens’ beyond the nation-state's power. The promise of communism provided a beyond; it marked the ultimate limit of capitalism and, therefore, its telos towards a human world-community beyond nationalisms and capitalism. Mourning the loss of this promise, the novel questions the unbounded eternal present of neoliberal capitalism. In doing so, Los incompletos imagines a new history and a new spectral geography not grounded on an ontology of presence. In reflecting critically upon the utopia of globalization, this text does not retreat to the space of the nation. The spectral space of Moscow confronts the neoliberal fantasy of global citizenship and the end of the utopia of communism. The world imagined by the narrator has lost the ontological promise of its own presence. Against the ideal of a global community with a smooth surface, where people (and capital flows) travel free from the power of the nation-state, Chejfec composes a dislocated topography, where characters are suspended in time and space, and the world's presence loses the fantasy of its ground.

Deconstruction andDifférance: Onto-Return and Emergence in A Daoist Interpretation of Derrida

In inquiring into the nature of deconstruction in Derrida we see that it hides an opposite aspect of onto-generative emergence as stated in the wording of the Yijing. What is hidden is the movement of difference-making and generalizing repetition by way of certain presupposed reality. In examining Derrida's notion “différance” (difference), his contrast between an ontology of presence and a philosophy of absence, in explaining the origin of meaning à la de Saussure, has transformed into the polaristic structure of all differences, whether it be in language or in things. The Saussurian distinction between the signifier and the signified no doubt reflects this polarity but not reveals an underlying transcendent-immanent principle called “différance,” or, the dao 道 in Chinese philosophy. This “difference” in language leads to ramification of meanings which could be self-deconstructive such as the extended use of the word “spirit” demonstrates.

O páthos da distância e da diferença

This paper analyzes and seeks to understand Walter Benjamin’s interpretation of Platonic eros. Several problems of philosophical interest seem to arise from it in the contemporary scenario, among which the focus on difference and on critical confrontation of the ontology of presence as the source of reification, which represents the way we relate to the world. This philosophical project aims to reach its goals through the theory of linguistic nomination, by claiming the existence of the paradoxical image of union in the link between the act of naming and Platonic eros. Such paradox is only effective if it deals with distance and difference.

In Answer to a Quasi-Ontological Argument: On Sheridan's “Toward an Eclectic Ontology of Presence” and Mantovani and Riva's “Building a Bridge between Different Scientific Communities”

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