The Language of Touch

Mirt Komel is Assistant Professor, Researcher and Chair of the Department of Cultural Studies at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Introduction, Mirt Komel (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

1. The Wave of the Sign: Pyramidal Sign, Haptic Hieroglyphs, and the Touch of Language, Mirt Komel (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2. The Structure of the Phonetical Touch: Unsettling the Mastery of Phonology Over Phonetics, Tomi Bartole (University of St. Andrews, UK)
3. Surplus of Touch: From the Forest of Symbols to the Jungle of Touch, Karmen Šterk (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
4. Ontology of Touch: From Aristotle to Brentano, Gregor Moder (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
5. Anatomical Aporia: Speculative Unity of Touch and Language, Goran Vraneševic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
6. The Category of the (Un)Touchable in Haptic Materialism: Touch, Repetition, and Language, Bara Kolenc (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
7. The Lick of the Mother Tongue: Derrida’s Fantasies of ‘the Touch of Language’ with Augustine and Marx, Rachel Aumiller (University of Hamburg, Germany)
8. On the Touch of Swear Words: Swearing and the Lacanian Real, Peter Klepec
9. Proper Names: Being in Touch with the Real, Jela Krecic-Žižek (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
10. Ethics of Touch: Doctor Who’s Untouchable Touch, Eva Vrtacic (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
11. Screaming Contagions: The Scream as Haptic Contagion, Zack Sievers

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