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thereness

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Noun1.thereness - real existence; "things are really there...capture the thereness of them"--Charles Hopkinson
presence - the state of being present; current existence; "he tested for the presence of radon"
2.thereness - the state of being there--not here--in position
presence - the state of being present; current existence; "he tested for the presence of radon"
hereness - the state of being here in this place


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In the work of Robbe-Grillet, according to Hollier, the methodology suggests a "recoding of things in their neutral and nonlinguistic quiddity, in their naked thereness.
The reward for the vigilant subversion of a conceptual world is access to presence, to the unmediated thereness and unity of all things.
Butler 2001: 257) Instead of conceptualising the beyond of discourse as pure exteriority, that is to say as "an absolute 'outside,' an ontological thereness that exceeds or counters the boundaries of discourse" (1993: 8), Butler would have us cast the problem in far more relational terms.
 
 
 
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