Notes for a Daemonic Naturalism

Bryant, L. (2016). "Knots: Notes for a Daemonic Naturalism." symplokē, Vol. 24, No. 1-2, Materialisms, pp. 27-45. University of Nebraska Press.

 

"A chiasmatic ontology, which is another name for naturalism,thus calls for an agile or daemonic form of theory that is able to shift between different paradigms of theory ranging from material analysis to hermeneutic and semiotic investigation to phenomenology and deconstruction. The daimons were intermediaries between the earth and heavens. If agile theory is daemonic in its agility, then this is because it shuttles between the three domains, halting in no one region, and perpetually thinks their knotting in the formations of being-nature within which all beings dwell without anything out-of-field" (44).