... of philologia , this other philology plays the trickster in humanistic disciplines. Its task today is twofold: to unmask the industrial manufacture of language, complicit as it is with hostility to the word; and, as remedy for reification, to reawaken the philia in philology by cultivating—with historically...

..., this libidinal energy is pharmacological insofar as it always runs the risk of being harnessed, standardized, and exploited by culture industries, and yet it can also construct a libidinal economy that promotes the social as philia (contribution, care, love). Libidinal energy as philia is bound up...

... in the philosophy of philology I m speaking of the late Werner Hamacher has laid emphasis, in discussing the long histori- cal trajectory of philology, on the forgetting of the affective moment of love or inclination, the philia that, with earlier thinkers such as Plato and Philo, was ostensibly at one...

... of aesthetics that politics must be understood as addressing the question of the relation to the other via some kind of collective feeling (à la Aris- totle’s philia), a being-­together and living-­together of singularities that goes beyond their conflicts of interest. Politics, he says, is the “art...

... that, with capitalism having put desire at the center of its energy, this economy has led to the ruin of desire, to the unchaining of its drives, and to the liquidation of philia and more generally of this love that the noetic souls have for each other and for the objects of their world. When they are religious...

... 2017 philistine psychopower sociopower philia pharmacology References Arendt Hannah . 1993 . “The Crisis in Culture: Its Social and Its Political Significance.” In Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought , 197 – 226 . New York : Viking . Barthes...

... of the conceptualization of philia as it is elaborated in Aristotole, The Nicomachean Ethics, ed. Lesley Brown, trans. David Ross (New York: Future(s) of Criticism—I / Basu / A Matter of Light and Shade 223 last meeting, Daisy holds Raman’s palm in hers, sometimes squeezing his wrist, sometimes just...

.... It is out of this possibility that the amateur is able to exchange with others—precisely with those with whom he shares a being-together­ con- structed by philia, which at the same time opens a public space and time that are the exact opposite of an audience: this is a critical space and a critical...

... that the state’s immigration practices are anchored in the discourse of Immigrant America, and upon his related belief that this discourse included both xeno- philia and xenophobia as subsets of the nation’s structure of ambivalence toward immigrants. In his earlier discussion of Nativism, Behdad alleges...

... the twentieth century by the compressive power of the culture industries and marketing techniques. A return to a mode of life more attentive to philia would require a cultivation of the “noetic organs.” “Most of the time we are only potentially noetic, and actually sensitive,” Stiegler observes...

... of an epoch of a “liquidated philia,” of désamour, “lovelessness” (Stiegler, “Proletarianization,” 12). During this period (for which Duchamp is significantly responsible, but within which he is no more than a manifestation), Duchamp’s “work” ceases being work at all; the artist as previously...

... forms of fidelity, or of pathos producer of philia, or of trust, and it is the result of a much larger process tarianize it all, and taking up Marx’s nuanced consideration of proletarianization in a wider sense, suggesting that what is called incivility and delinquency are indeed...

... with Robert Antelme, and his testimony in The Human Species led to an intense engagement with the revelations about the concentration camps, leading to the imperative: “Know what has happened, do not forget, and at the same time never will you know.” Such friendship was not a Platonic philia leading...