... theorists such as Slavoj Žižek and Robert Pfaller term the interpassive subject. As we have seen in Mann’s career and our epoch, the creative images of voice, the critical terms of self-narration, mark the phases of this movement from literature as traditionally understood to the apocalyptic expenditure...

... are grounded in the preference of particular subjects for delegating their enjoyment rather than having it themselves” (1). The notion of delegation is thus at the heart of interpassivity. For some people—Pfaller's “particular subjects”—it appears somehow preferable not only that others do things for them...