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...Catherine Malabou Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 How Is Subjectivity Undergoing Deconstruction Today? Philosophy, Auto-Hetero-Affection, and Neurobiological Emotion Catherine Malabou Contemporary neurobiological research is engaged in a deep re- definition...

... with a thing, a threaded spool. Picking up on Freud’s comment that the game is selbstgeschaffen, self-invented, Derrida says that Freud is describing the “self-engendering of the repetition of itself,” which gives time.5 He later calls this self-engendering of repetition “the auto...

... stranger—that is a strange stranger. The object-oriented sublime transports the strange stranger into the reader’s midst. Harman’s prose seems less happy with what ap- pears to be the contrary motion, the inwardness of auto-affection (“this ceaseless argument Or is it? Is auto-affection confi ned...

... fragments dedicated to the automobile's birth (Ch. 1), the assembly line (Ch. 2), the making of tires (Ch. 3), labor conflicts within the auto industry (Ch. 4), gaso- 148 JEFFREY T. SCHNAPP line production (Ch. 5), speculation on stock exchanges (Ch. 6) and roadways (Ch. 7...

... with “a mightly struggle” (forti con- tritione, an expression that evokes the idea of consuming auto- frictional pain, a grinding and rubbing of the self against itself in a struggle toward what is beyond it.4 In the more explicitly affective Dionysian tradition, such striving is understood more...

... birthed the father: the daughter, from her divine nature; the mother, from her human nature” (“SMP,” 213–14). Lévi-Strauss highlights the phrase’s general signifi cation as an eternal auto-generation, evok- ing the case of the phoenix or certain Eastern gods. The autumn crocus would resemble...

... of philosophy as metaphysics of presence, and this very reason persists necessarily as auto-deconstructed. Philosophie—“Pourquoi pas en finir?” : he made this demand, and thus he bequeathed to us a commencement, as a cry, a testament, a plea, and of course a task—but this means commencement as something...

... and in totality that is posited, becomes principle or auto- position, the absolute that subordinates its two components. Hence the tragic or destinal essence, at once of the individual and of ethics, which are engaged in a reciprocal and ill-fated strug- gle for domination...

... and institutions surrounding them. For them, the nothing of the entity translated into a practice of auto-expulsion and humiliation, a kind of masochistic submission to sadistically inclined institutions, which in turn saw them with suspicion and attempted to isolate...

...- nomenality” which, in turn, gives way onto its essence as primor- dial auto-affectivity.13 For Henry, nothing happens via the wax ex- periment, because, as we know, “this ‘knowledge of the body’ . . . originally and untiringly refers back to ‘knowledge of the soul,’ whose more original...

... on the to the funeral pile of the deceased — in a word, to do anything we wish. Hence the Crusades, the excesses of fanatical sects; hence Chiliasts and Flagellants, persecu- tions of heretics, autos da fe, and whatever else is offered by the long register of human...

...- Marder: Ode to Amekhania 155 animation, self-acting, or self-thinking (autós & matos),7 eerily rem- iniscent of the Aristotelian unmoved mover. Economic automatism is not entirely diff erent from ecological autopoiesis. The I may not of amekhania may announce sheer paralysis or another energy...

... in this direction: the Grand Theft Auto games evolved from taking place in “Anywhere, USA” to site-specifi c installments like GTA: San Andreas, which un- folds in fi ctional cities modeled closely on San Francisco, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles. The company also released the “open...

... of perceptual liberation (F, 82). Whatever the merits of such a claim, the group's penchant for continuously recording itself would instead seem to mark it as a precursor of the contemporary prac- tice of compulsive auto-surveillance, even as it exposed new regions...

... renders as “Departure is what occurs” ( “Addressing Departure,” 311 ). 26. Nancy, Sense of the World , 77 . 27. The matrix of departing and/as arriving traverses both death and sex. In “Song of Myself” this intuition has an explicit (auto)erotic component, as Whitman describes a scene...

...—for if it is true that the principal energy of capital is now libido, its tendency 108 qui parle fall/winter 2009 vol.18, no.1 to destroy and then replace the latter with a drive-based apparatus is both its limit and in a certain respect its auto-immune destiny, to borrow one...

... of this essence, the fi nished works are no longer but a regional material. We thus have to assume an absolutely universal concept of resistance, of form-resistance itself. This can only be the exact “antithesis” of affect (of) itself and of its non-positional (of) itself nature: auto-position...

... and poetry to their retrospectively "auto- telic" formal essences but for severing the myriad historical and aesthetic contexts that are congealed in new meaning from the work itself. Greenberg's criticism had as its goal not only the proper bound- aries of the work...

... colonialisme, de l'esclavage et de l'immigration postcoloniale (lesbians begotten of/ out of colonialism, slavery, and postcolonial immigration). All these auto-designations avoid attaching color directly onto the body. They avoid reiterating the criteria of biochromatic ra- cialization even...

... Spanish scapular-like cloaks, sambenitos , which bore a bright yellow cross as a sign of heresy. This example shows the visual adaption and similar executions of Spanish autos-da-fé in Italy. 64 All in all, Jews and heretics were both visually labeled as ostracized people. Their convergence...