Jeffrey Jerome Cohen's scientific contributions

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... The worm takes the partial, fragmented, conception of the anonymous, extemporaneous, mindless, instinctive "parasubject" (see Spivak, 1988: 271-274) and demonstrates its expository power. Where the Kraken illuminates the Western imaginaries of monsterhood, Otherness, and disorder, the worm tunnels through Occidental substrates to reveal the ordered economies of its desires (see Cohen, 1996;Deleuze and Guattari, 2009). The tentacular provides important perspectives of the margins, the monsters that inhabit it, and the abject power of their heavy, fleshy "thinginess" (see Bennett, 2004: 349). ...