Through a sustained engagement with the work of Giorgio Agamben and Catherine Malabou, and against the background of contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold.
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• Dedication-- Acknowledgements-- List of Illustrations-- Introduction: Decision Time-- A. September 11 and the Aesthetic Decision-- B. The Chapters-- C. Schmitt, Hobbes, Benjamin, Burnham-- Chapter One: States of Exception in Yann Martel's Life of Pi-- A. Introduction-- B. Political State of Exception-- C. Psychic State of Exception-- D. Theological State of Exception-- E. The Politics of Allegory-- Chapter Two: Autobiography and Human Rights in Jeffrey-- Eugenides' Middlesex-- A. A Failure of Reading-- B. Reading Human Rights-- C. The Political Life of Sex-- D. Sex in Theory-- E/ Autobiography and Messianism-- Chapter Three: Literary Economies in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace-- A. Disgrace, Once More-- B. The Circular Economy of Violence-- C. Reading Incest-- D. Lucy's Count-- E. Lucy as "the part of those who have no part"-- F. From Animals to Aesthetic Economy-- Chapter Four: Architectures of Exception in W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz-- A. Architecture, Trauma, and the Camps-- B. Reading Fortifications-- C. The Cabinet of Wonder-- D. Architectures of the Uncanny-- E. Moving Testimony-- F. The Novel in Motion-- or: The Politics of Austerlitz's Aesthetic-- Conclusion: From Exception to Care-- A. Crisis and Play-- B. Biopolitics, the Novel, and Care-- Bibliographic References-- Index.
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In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political situation in both the United States and abroad has often been described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's Austerlitz. De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what he calls the aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage in today's planetary state of exception.
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• Abbreviations-- Introduction: Simondon, Finally, Arne de Boever, Alex Murray, Jon Roffe and Ashley Woodward-- 1.Technical Mentality, Gilbert Simondon, translated by Arne De Boever-- Explications--
• 2. 'Technical Mentality' Revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon, With Arne De Boever, Alex Murray and Jon Roffe--
• 3. Identity and Individuation: Some Feminist Reflections, Elizabeth Grosz--
• 4. Crystals and Membranes: Individuation and Temporality, Anne Sauvagnargues, translated by Jon Roffe-- Implications--
• 5. The Question of Anxiety in Gilbert Simondon, Igor Krtolica, translated by Jon Roffe--
• 6. Infra-Psychic Individuation: Transductive Connections and the Genesis of Living Techniques, Marie-Pier Boucher--
• 7. 'Du mort qui saisit le vif': Simondonian Ontology Today, Jean-Hugues Barthelemy, translated by Justin Clemens--
• 8. The Aesthetics of Gilbert Simondon: Anticipation of the Contemporary Aesthetic Experience, Yves Michaud, translated by Justin Clemens-- Resonances--
• 9. Gilles Deleuze, a Reader of Gilbert Simondon, Sean Bowden--
• 10. Science and Ontology: From Merleau-Ponty's 'Reduction' to Simondon's 'Transduction', Miguel de Beistegui--
• 11. The Question of the Individual in Georges Canguilhem and Gilbert Simondon, Dominique Lecourt, translated by Arne De Boever--
• 12. The Theatre of Individuation: Phase-shift and Resolution in Simondon and Heidegger, Bernard Stiegler, translated by Kristina Lebedeva-- Glossary: Fifty Key Terms in the Works of Gilbert Simondon, Jean-Hugues Barthelemy-- Index.
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The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work in English Gilbert Simondon's work has recently come to prominence in America and around the Anglophone work, having been of great importance in France for many years. This first collection of essays, by renowned critics and philosophers, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the implication of his thought in numerous disciplines and his relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and Canguilhem. This book offers an entry point to this influential thinker and will appeal to people working in philosophy, philosophy of science, media studies, social theory and political philosophy. Includes * a contextualising introduction * an important essay by Simondon himself * a glossary of 50 key terms in Simondon's work Keywords Gilbert Simondon; Technology; Individuation; Ontogenesis; Technicity.
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