discursus

(dɪsˈkɜːsʌs)

a discursive reasoning

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So, please hold your breath for this discursus, which I blame on Arthur Koestler's (1966) PAO.

A Ludic Appreciation of Mechner's Aesthetics

"hacer coincidir lo visto y lo que no pudo ser visto, aquello que se recuerda y lo que, desde luego, es imposible recordar y hay que inventar, recrear, para otorgarle verosimilitud al discursus" (Virilio, 1998:8).

Fragmentation as interference in Salome Nascimento's artwork/Fragmentacion como interferencia en la obra de Salome Nascimento

When considering Machiavelli's Republican convictions, Jurdjevic moves away from the Roman model and considers, instead, Florentine republicanism in Machiavelli's republican treatise, the Discursus florentinarum rerum post mortem iunioris Laurentii Medices (Discourse on Florentine Affairs After the Death of Lorenzo de' Medici) from 1520.

Mark Jurdjevic, A Great and Wretched City: Promise and Failure in Machiavelli's Florentine Political Thought

In truth the book is less about interpreting Kelman's fiction and politics than enfolding both into a highly-wrought discursus on late capitalism and the politics of class.