... In chapter 1, I look at Louis Althusser’s theory of interpellation, focusing on the ways that he allows for its failure. For example, he says “nine times out of ten” that interpellation targets the person it was “really” meant for. My question here is what about the one in ten cases when...

... In this chapter I look at Bess McNeill, the central character in Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves , arguing that she demonstrates a way to resist interpellation. Because Bess speaks not just as herself but as God, she reveals a way to take advantage of the multiplicity and anarchism...

... anarchism calling interpellation forms of address ...

... Frantz Fanon identity race postcolonialism interpellation ...

... Slavoj Žižek New Historicism historicity universality interpellation ...

... Louis Althusser interpellation Lauren Berlant Judith Butler ...

... process without a subject Ideological State Apparatus interpellation supremacy of the signifier Real-Imaginary-Symbolic ...

... In the conclusion, I consider the various calls that I have collected in previous chapters, ranging from interpellating calls like Althusser’s “hey, you there!” to other addresses such as Lauren Berlant’s “wait up!,” Woolf’s “come, come!” (from Orlando ), Édouard Glissant’s “consent...

... This chapter looks at the life and work of Frantz Fanon as the misinterpellated subject par excellence. I argue that in terms of his own life experience, Fanon’s famous scene where he was interpellated by a young white boy in the streets of Lyon with a call of “tiens, un Nègre!” (look, a Negro...

... In this chapter, I look at three narratives involving individuals and their encounters with the police in the United States. Each case is meant to revisit Louis Althusser’s classic depiction of interpellation wherein a police officer, seeing a pedestrian walking by yells out “hey, you...

... to be) are not a unitary cohesive agent, like the false subject that interpellation calls for. Instead we are multiple and anarchic subjects, with many overlapping and exogenous sources. In this way, I argue that Nietzsche offers anarchism a way to anarchize the individual down to the level of her psyche. Friedrich...

.... process without a subject Ideological State Apparatus interpellation supremacy of the signifier Real-Imaginary-Symbolic ...

...Subjects of the Call In chapter 1, I look at Louis Althusser’s theory of interpellation, focusing on the ways that he allows for its failure. For example, he says “nine times out of ten” that interpellation targets the person it was “really” meant for. My question here is what about the one...

.... Nationalism in fact privileges the few at the expense of the many, and the nation-state installs and interpellates hierarchies of race, gender, sexuality, class, and citizenship. nationalism nation-state sovereignty multilateralism ...

... a script, doing what they are told (or interpellated) to do. Bartleby’s famous line “I would prefer not to” is not a form of giving up on life but rather an expression of amor fati , an indication that he follows only his own preferences rather than the projections that normally dictate our lives...