Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-10428025
Ruth Averbach
In the winter of 2020 the transgender science-fiction author Isabella Fall published a story that reimagined a pervasive transphobic internet quip—that one’s gender identity may be an attack helicopter—into an engrossing tale of a woman physically and mentally transformed into a multimillion-dollar piece of military hardware capable of providing close air support to ground troops and delivering antitank and antiair missiles. Fall’s story demonstrates how the most intimate aspects of ourselves—our gender, our sexuality, and our desires—are not necessarily liberatory but indeed malleable according to the dominant forces in our societies: economic systems and the states that govern us.Two recent academic studies by Keti Chukhrov and Bogdan Popa pose a similar question, examining the role of Cold War ideology in shaping Western critical theory’s perspectives on the “libidinal economy,” desire, gender, and sexuality. Both authors seek to critically reexamine the dismissive attitude of leading Western social and critical theorists toward Soviet and Eastern European Marxist epistemologies in constructing their own anticapitalist thought, with special attention paid to the relationship between gender, sexuality, and systems of private property. Chukhrov and Popa, in their own distinct idioms, demonstrate how a wide range of leading thinkers—Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Judith Butler, and others—have rooted their anticapitalist critiques not in the context of concrete experiences of building socialist society, as in Eastern Europe, but in a latent desire for capitalist alienation itself as a disruptive and therefore positive force. Thus, they argue, Western anticapitalist critiques themselves need and desire that which they ostensibly repudiate, all the while projecting and affirming Cold War dichotomies. This second point of critique has clear antecedents in the writings of Mark Fisher, Boris Groys,1 Fredric Jameson, and Slavoj Žižek, to name just a few, but Chukhrov and Popa’s books offer a truly impressive breadth of cross-cultural readings between Western theory and Eastern European Marxism, cinema, object design, psychology, and aesthetic theory. Despite sharing similar critical foundations, however, Chukhrov and Popa take different approaches. Practicing the Good casts a wider net, analyzing political economy, sexuality, aesthetics, and the “ontics” (PG, 9) of communism, whereas Popa trains his focus through the topic of sexuality and interrogates the origins and political assumptions of gender and queer studies in the West, a phenomenon he terms “Cold War gender.”Keti Chukhrov is a poet, philosopher, and theorist of art at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow. Her work covers literary analysis, poetry, contemporary art, Soviet philosophy, and Soviet and post-Soviet gender and sexuality. She has been called “one of the most important theoretical voices to emerge from post-Soviet Russia” and was previously shortlisted for t
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-10428014
Christopher Geary
In the early 1840s a group of peasants warily gathers wood in a forest in western Germany. Hushed and hurried, they take care not to cut any living growth, only collecting the fallen twigs and branches from the forest floor. But soon above their rustling comes the beating sound of hooves—distant, approaching, suddenly thundering—and the peasants scream and flee as they are clubbed, hacked, and trampled by a mounted gang of forest wardens. Throughout this scene— the opening of Raoul Peck’s 2017 film The Young Karl Marx—the eponymous protagonist reads in voice-over from some of his earliest published writings criticizing new laws that criminalized such customary practices of wood gathering, while in the next scene the
19世纪40年代初，一群农民在德国西部的森林里小心翼翼地拾柴。他们安静而匆忙，小心翼翼地不砍伐任何有生命的植物，只收集森林地面上掉落的小枝和树枝。但很快，在他们的沙沙声中传来了马蹄声——遥远的，接近的，突然雷鸣般的——农民们尖叫着逃跑，因为他们被一群骑马的森林管理员用棍棒殴打，砍杀和践踏。在拉乌尔·派克(Raoul Peck) 2017年的电影《年轻的卡尔·马克思》(the Young Karl marx)的开场，同名主人公通过画外音朗读了他最早发表的一些作品，批评将这种采伐木材的习俗定为犯罪的新法律
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-10052309
David A. Ponton
Abstract:Scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds have been critical of history's vision of itself as grounded in empiricism, its function as a secularist theodicy, and its commitment to humanism. Meanwhile, Black studies has exposed the Human as a sociopolitical construction masquerading as mere ontological fact. Yet historians remain committed to the fiction as if it were fact, occluding the ways that narrating the Human requires evading full recognition of the ubiquity and permanence of anti-Blackness in the modern world. Indeed, this article argues, this is the unstated function of history, conceived here as a discipline, or constraint, on what it is possible for historians to think and register as significant as they bring order to chaos in the form of narrative. Against empiricism and the humanist compulsion to explain suffering rather than abide in its meaninglessness, this article suggests an embrace of antidisciplinarity. By shifting perspective through Afropessimism, embracing methods such as critical fabulation, and inventing the past through cross-disciplinary borrowing, autobiography, and explicit empathy, the article demonstrates the implications of an antidisciplinary approach to historical inquiry. It engages the historiography and archives related to the Houston Police Department's attack on Texas Southern University students in 1967 and in doing so exposes the incoherence of historiography that speaks of peace in an anti-Black world and that relies on an ontological certainty of the Human as a simple fact of existence, alongside its attendant codes, specifically those of linear time, gender subjectivity, and agency.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-10059435
Phillip Warnell, Jean-Luc Nancy
Abstract:This is a creative dialogue between artist-filmmaker Phillip Warnell and author-philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. It explores, among other things, their film, text, and research collaborations spanning more than a decade.
文摘:这是一个创造性的对话artist-filmmaker菲利普Warnell和author-philosopher jean - luc南希。它探索了他们十多年来的电影、文本和研究合作。
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-10052375
Shaj Mohan
Abstract:Deconstruction was the beginning of a disassembly of metaphysics that now proceeds toward anastasis through the openings created by Jean-Luc Nancy. Deconstruction remained classical in the sense of its reliance on classical laws of thought, of which it remained the selfcritique. With Nancy, however, the rejection of the classical laws of thought emerged. Anastasis is the other beginning that opens philosophy to the experiences covered over by the classical laws.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-10052342
D. Dwivedi
Abstract:Jean-Luc Nancy was concerned with commencement at several levels, of several kinds, in several senses, because he could speak of commencement with affirmation, which means with audacity. From the hospital in July 2021 he completed his last essay, which was intended to commence the project of "the other beginning of philosophy" envisaged by him, Shaj Mohan, and Divya Dwivedi, and he titled it "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking." In and through it are gathered all of Nancy's critical reflections on destiny, on the antisemitic components of the Heideggerian history of being, on the ends of philosophy that we must reckon with, on origins and archaeophilia, on the an-archique essence of philosophy and democracy—and this means for us, on another sense of commencement than arche, which could allow us to prepare another beginning of philosophy than the Heideggerian one, and to respond to Nancy's wager "Pourquoi pas en finir?" Nancy has not left us; rather, we are only now commencing with Nancy.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-10052397
Joseph Albernaz
Abstract:This text on Jean-Luc Nancy engages his interest in the motif of departure to reexamine and register the importance of some of his central contributions. Along with returning to Nancy's singular rendering of key concepts like finitude, sharing, communism, and resurrection, the essay stages a passing encounter between Nancy's thought of parting and the poetry of Walt Whitman.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-10052353
I. James
Abstract:This article gives a personal recollection of discussions with Jean-Luc Nancy and offers a reflection on these together with a philosophical analysis of texts written by him that were published in 2020 in the volume La peau fragile du monde (The Fragile Skin of the World). It engages with Nancy's novel understanding of prophecy to understand his own writing as a form of "prophetic voice" receptive to the emergence of the present and its opening onto the future. A meditation on time, the loss of history, and on the need to be receptive to what comes to us as the real and from the real, the article outlines Nancy's singular, generous, and open praxis and ethos of thought.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-9669470
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1215/10418385-9669459
Jack W. Chen
Abstract:This essay takes the example of a poem composed by a ghost in the Tang dynasty—one of many preserved in literary anthologies and treated as actually having been authored by the dead—as an entry point to ask broader questions of ghostly haunting and poetic presence. What the essay demonstrates is how both the ghost and the poem are informed by logics of analog mediation (rather than representation): how the ghost finds purchase in the world only through bodily possession, spatial haunting, material displacement, and psychic transference and how the poem effects the transmission of mind through the channels of linguistic form, meter, and rhyme. Neither the ghost nor the poem exists except in or as its mediations, yet through these mediations, both the ghost and the poem become present and are communicated into the world. While contemporary media theory has identified the intertwined discourses of technology and spiritualism, the focus has almost solely been on the nineteenth century and later, on the age of electric and electronic telecommunications. The medieval ghost poem, as an exemplary case, complicates this account, showing how poetry has long served as a necrotechnology that mediates the dead and returns ghosts to presence.
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