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Monthly Archives: July 2008
If All Else Fails
In his recent book, Violence, Slavoj Zizek aims to distinguish between ‘subjective’ violence – violence as we ordinarily experience it, as a disturbing intrusion into the normal run of things, which only appears against a background of non-violent normality – … Continue reading
Posted in historical materialism, political theology, politics, psychoanalysis
Tagged ancestrality, Benjamin, capitalism, catastrophe, cleavage, event, example, exception, misuse, operational time, politics, proletariat, redemption, violence, Zizek
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Making History
What is historicity? We can see it when there happens to be, there emerges or occurs an event that breaks with the chronological chain of presents, distinguishing itself from that which does not distinguish itself from it (Deleuze). In its … Continue reading
For Example
Para-ontology. This is the methodological/epistemological basis of Giorgio Agamben’s research, which weaves through fields as diverse as juridical theory, poetics, philosophy, and theology. More than that, it is the orientation of thought regarding itself, the thought of thought or the … Continue reading
Diminishing Returns
Reduction is a familiar problem in contemporary analytic philosophy, which often concerns itself with the reducibility or irreducibility of mind, thought, consciousness, among other things, to matter, and specifically the material processes of the brain. The philosophical heritage of the … Continue reading
Posted in para-ontology, planomenology
Tagged Agamben, Aristotle, example, immanence, in-and-not-itself, ipseity, leading, ontology, reduction
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Like Father Like Son
Some notes following Giorgio Agamben’s lecture, “The Power and the Glory”. Economy properly becomes a concern when the activity or actuality of a praxis, which is to say, an effectivity or efficacy, cannot be reconciled with the being to which … Continue reading
Posted in historical materialism, para-ontology, political theology, politics, psychoanalysis
Tagged Agamben, Deleuze, economy, ex-appropriation, forefather, Guattari, historicity, immanence, in-and-not-itself, inheritance, leading, manifest futurity, offspring, ontology, politics, threshold, xenoeconomics
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Economy: Inside-Out
Some notes on a paradox, a paradox central to both the modern economic/administrative paradigm we know as bio-politics, and to its relation with the juridical paradigm of sovereignty. First of all, we find power originally abiding in a nexus between … Continue reading
Posted in para-ontology, political theology, politics
Tagged Agamben, cleavage, economy, ex-appropriation, example, exception, immanence, leading, planomenon, politics, threshold, to-be, xenoeconomics
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The Heir To Be(ing)
Inheriting — being. The inheriting being, the heir whom receives or responds to the call of a gift, also is the inheritor of this being: the inheritance is being. To give – a giving that sends forth and relinquishes, cedes … Continue reading
Posted in hauntology, historical materialism, non-phi, para-ontology, planomenology, political theology
Tagged abandon, ancestrality, anontology, cleavage, ex-appropriation, exception, forefather, in-and-not-itself, inheritance, manifest futurity, offspring, planomenon, proletariat, redemption, reduction, retrograde temporality, specter, to-be
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