Abstract:

The turn of material culture, which is active in the frontier of international scholarship, contains an important and yet unattended approach of event. On the phenomenological level, Jean-Luc Marion proves that the event is the giver of the phenomenon itself, laid event as the foundation for materiality, and objectively led to two representative schemes of retaining materiality as event, which together attempt to sublate materialism. Deleuze introduces pure event with the virtual. In Badiou, although event is endowed with the absolute transcendence, it still tends to inevitability in the inner contradiction with the axiomatic premise. Both are sublated by Slavoj ?i?ek in the sense that he affirms special potentiality to develop the immaterial elements in the materialist connotation on the one hand, and adheres to the materialist principle to avoid idealizing it on the other. Michael Marder further advocates post-deconstructive realism and deepens the issue of grasping things from the perspective of event in a more recent context. This approach of event gives a kind of deep description of materialism, thus vigorously promoting the contemporary process of the turn of material culture.

Key words: turn of material culture, event, phenomenon, immaterial, post-deconstructive materialism