Abstract
In dialogue with recent studies that have sought to foreground the negative and the abyssal in human geography and that have struggled in vain to prevent their foreclosure, we introduce the work of the French theorist Maurice Blanchot, whose challenging and thought-provoking writings remain largely unknown within our discipline despite their significance for deconstructing geography’s conceptual architecture. After explicating Blanchot’s neutralization of the problem of negativity and positivity, the paper brings Blanchot’s neutral writings to bear on three areas of contemporary geographical concern: the trouble with subjectivity and identity; the unhinging of space and time; and the disaster of writing.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 475-494 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Progress in Human Geography |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 11 Jun 2024 |
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| Publication status | Published - Aug 2024 |
Bibliographical note
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- Jacques Derrida
- Maurice Blanchot
- abyssal geographies
- deconstruction
- negative geographies
- neutral writing
- poststructuralism