Location
University of Windsor
Document Type
Paper
Keywords
argumentation, deconstruction, Derrida, invention, khôra, loci, Plato, postmodernism, rhetoric, surprise, topoi.
Start Date
22-5-2013 9:00 AM
End Date
25-5-2013 5:00 PM
Abstract
Borrowing from Plato, argumentation tends to imagine that invention is at home in the khôra—the space of the ideas—because it is the space for discovering and sorting argument options. In contrast, this paper suggests we re-conceive the idea of inventio as emerging possibility. Inventio is not only the process of sorting the set of possible arguments but is the possibility of the new idea itself; the idiomatic, the absolute surprise.
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Satoru Aonuma, Commentary on: Michael C. Souders' "Khôra, invention, deconstruction and the space of complete surprise"
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Borrowing from Plato, argumentation tends to imagine that invention is at home in the khôra—the space of the ideas—because it is the space for discovering and sorting argument options. In contrast, this paper suggests we re-conceive the idea of inventio as emerging possibility. Inventio is not only the process of sorting the set of possible arguments but is the possibility of the new idea itself; the idiomatic, the absolute surprise.
