Survival of the Human in the Flux of Language

(Transcript of a lecture given as part of the School of Materialist Research - Intensive Study Program)

Authors

  • Miglena Nikolchina Department for Theory and History of Literature, Sofia University

Keywords:

Julia Kristeva, psychic revolution of matter, Flux of Language

Abstract

The lecture examines aspects of the political, intellectual, and artistic contexts which triggered Julia Kristeva’s lifelong theoretical exploration of the “psychic revolution of matter” and which led to the formation of some of Kristeva’s major concepts.

Author(s): Miglena Nikolchina

Title (English): Survival of the Human in the Flux of Language (Transcript of a lecture given as part of the School of Materialist Research - Intensive Study Program)

Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023).

Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje

Page Range: 116-127

Page Count: 12

Citation (English): Miglena Nikolchina, "Survival of the Human in the Flux of Language (Transcript of a lecture given as part of the School of Materialist Research - Intensive Study Program),” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 20, No. 1-2 (2023): 116-127.

Author Biography

Miglena Nikolchina, Department for Theory and History of Literature, Sofia University

Miglena Nikolchina is a Bulgarian poet, writer, and theoretician whose research interests involve the interactions of literature and philosophy. In English, her publications include numerous articles as well as the books Matricide in Language: Writing Theory in Kristeva and Woolf (2004) and Lost Unicorns of the Velvet Revolutions: Heterotopias of the Seminar (2013). She guest-edited a special issue of differences (2021, 32.1) on “The Undead of Literary Theory.” Her most recent books (in Bulgarian) are God with Machine: Subtracting the Human (2022) and the collective volume Video Games: the Dangeorus Muse (2023).

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Published

2023-12-12

How to Cite

Nikolchina, M. . (2023). Survival of the Human in the Flux of Language: (Transcript of a lecture given as part of the School of Materialist Research - Intensive Study Program). Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 20(1-2), 116-127. Retrieved from https://identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/533