With and Against the Powers of Contingency: an Introduction

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Published: Oct 18, 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.20890
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contingency introduction Quentin Meillassoux speculative turn
Stamatina Dimakopoulou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Stamatina Dimakopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Stamatina Dimakopoulou is Assistant Professor in American literature and culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has been Fulbright Visiting Scholar at New York University in 2016. Publications include articles on Surrealism, modernist magazines, U.S. poetry and art. She is a founding member and co-editor of Synthesis. She is co-editor of The Letter of the Law: Literature, Justice and the Other (2013) and of Ruins in the Anglo-American Literary and Cultural Imagination (Palgrave, forthcoming).

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