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Violence and Mechanism: Georges Canguilhem's Overturning of the Cartesian Legacy
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 June 2015
...,” Americanization, and atomic destruction, Canguilhem
refuses Descartes’s postulate that science is a pure, systematized, ab-
stract knowledge that is only subsequently applied technically. Argu-
ing that the Cartesian cogito leads to the technological domination of
nature and other men, Canguilhem counters...
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Absent Blue Wax (Rationalist Empiricism)
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 89–106.
Published: 01 June 2010
... in the depths
of a chasm opened up in the subject” that Deleuze locates in Kant’s
Analytic of the Sublime.10 Already we have the “Cogito for a dis-
solved self” for which Deleuze calls in Difference and Repetition:
an “I” fractured by the form of time as the imagination, spurred by
the sensible...
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Descartes and the Post-Traumatic Subject: On Catherine Malabou's Les Nouveaux Blessés and Other Autistic Monsters
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Slavoj Žižek Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 Descartes and the Post-Traumatic Subject
On Catherine Malabou’s Les nouveaux blessés
and Other Autistic Monsters
Slavoj žižek
If the radical moment of the inauguration of modern philosophy
is the rise of the Cartesian cogito, where...
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“ . . . Wrestling with (my God!) My God”: Modernism, Nihilism, and Belief
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Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 1–25.
Published: 01 December 2013
...,” that is, the impersonal, universalizing “I” of the cogito ergo
sum. Heidegger then turns, again without affi xing causality, from
the cogito’s Christian antecedent to its corollary and future in the
modern techno-scientifi c project in which what counts as reality is
whatever comes within the ken...
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The Sorrow of Being
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Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 June 2010
... of any object outside of himself, he would necessar-
ily himself be this negativity.
In the comparable context of Descartes’ cogito ergo sum, the re-
ality of such sorrow would require a fundamental counter-support
or fl ying buttress for this philosophical phrase, a kind of gothic
supplement...
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Play's the Thing: Jugs Are Us
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 149–169.
Published: 01 December 2009
... timelessness of the unconscious the way
Heidegger read Kant on the timelessness of the cogito.7 In fact,
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the result of Heidegger’s reading of Kant on the timelessness of
the cogito is the auto-affective structure...
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Reincarnating the Knowing Subject: Scientific Rationality and the Situated Body
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 53–73.
Published: 01 June 2009
..., respectively, in the cogito and in tran-
scendental categories, or that Popper grounded in method, are
henceforth rooted in multiple collective and situated practices.
Mialet: Reincarnating the Knowing Subject 57
Thus, as science is repopulated, the subject is emptied...
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On the Japanese Translation of The Legend of Freud : A Dialogue with Samuel Weber
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Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 171–196.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., the latter being the determination of identity as liter-
ally in-divisible and durable. But the roots of this go back to
the period of the Reformation and its immediate aftermath.
Descartes, for instance, determines his cogito—and here I
finally come to your question—not as cogito simply...
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Proust’s Natural History Museum
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 103–135.
Published: 01 June 2019
... and approximate the whole each tries but fails to express. ☾ ☾ ☾ Cogito ergo sum , “I think, therefore I am; I think, therefore I am,” repeats every last worded thing of the last centuries—as though one might thereby convince oneself that it is thought that secures existence. The last page of René...
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Is There a Deleuzian Aesthetics?
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 1–14.
Published: 01 December 2004
..., when it transforms its position of image among images into
cogito, into the center from which it delimits images of the world.
The "figurative givens" are also the delimitation of the visible, of
the meaningful, of the credible, such as empires organize them,
empires...
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Splinters of Being: Fernando Pessoa as Multiple Singularity
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Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 175–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
... feelings”: “O que em mim sente ‘stá pensando” (what
feels in me is thinking) provides a neat mock-Cartesian formula,
the human heart as res cogitans, for what Lacan will see as the
divided subject of the unconscious. But the Pessoan cogito is, pre-
cisely, conscious. It feels its...
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The Catastrophe: Black Feminist Poethics, (Anti)form, and Mathematical Nihilism
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Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 353–372.
Published: 01 December 2019
... qualities, the Cogito, etc.) depends on mathematical form—logic, calculation, proofs, and so on—to reproduce antiblack violence. She begins with the “Equation of value,” a form that posits life (1) as ultimate value and negative life (−1). Within an antiblack world, “blackness occupies the place of negative...
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From Doubt to Dogma: Ontology and Santayana's Skeptical Analysis of Knowledge
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Qui Parle (2004) 15 (1): 147–168.
Published: 01 June 2004
... accidental limits to his scepticism," and that "the persuasion in
saying 'I am' I have reached an indubitable fact, can only excite a
smile in the genuine sceptic" (SAF, 290). His reasons for rejecting
Descartes' cogito parallel his reasons for rejecting the belief...
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Cartographies of Style: Asignifying, Intensive, Impersonal
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 213–238.
Published: 01 June 2014
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fective power, and by the contagious virulence of its capacity to
depict the way it is affected by social physics of time.
The analysis of style thus offers a decisive confi rmation of the
critique of personal individuations. No primordial I, no substantial
cogito possessing the power to initiate...
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After Potemkin Politics: On Tom Cohen's Ideology and Inscription
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Qui Parle (2000) 12 (1): 177–201.
Published: 01 June 2000
..." the symbolic was already a re-
sponse to the real. The effect is to eviscerate the relationship of the
two until they become Janus-faced alter-egos of one another, the
vampire all along the real Enlightenment subject, the monster all
along the Cartesian cogito.15...
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Paradisical Pessimism: On the Crucifixion Darkness and the Cosmic Materiality of Sorrow
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 183–212.
Published: 01 June 2014
... passion-
ate voice of the cosmic pessimist gives objective and generalized
expression to the affective un- ground of modern philosophy. This
is a voice that inversely expands the virtual, skeptical blackening
of knowledge wherein Descartes’s cogito is discovered into the very
blackness...
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“A Voice without a Mouth”: Inner Speech
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Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 57–104.
Published: 01 December 2004
... touchstone of my very existence.
Here Descartes' cogito could be rendered instead as "I am aware
of my inner voice, therefore I am." Together with its strong sensa-
tion of self-immediacy comes the impression, at least, of truth
telling. Socrates emphasised the greater veracity...
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Who Speaks? Thirtieth Anniversary Dossier: Interventions
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Qui Parle (2017) 26 (2): 295–382.
Published: 01 December 2017
... to observe that (lacking any empirical evidence of the inner lives of others) we extend that same credit to every person we meet, everyday? After all, Descartes, starting with the cogito , could prove that the others around him were not mindless automata only by first demonstrating the existence...
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