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...Jason de Stefano Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 From Objectivity to the Scientifi c Self A Conversation with Peter Galison jason de stefano Peter Galison is the Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments...

... with the post-Kantian project of “critique.” Drawing on both G. W. F. Hegel and Marx, the essay shows that species-being is connected with self-consciousness of the form of living activity and its natural limits, enabling and constraining certain theoretical and practical powers. The second section develops...

... supplements existing immune theory with their own emergent and embodied theory, they develop an autoimmune methodology based on their experience of living with an autoimmune disease. Part personal narrative, part speculative autoimmune theory, the article ultimately calls for a practice of self-care aimed...

... mysticism, anthropological critiques of the secular, work in Black studies, critiques of the subject, and François Laruelle’s non-philosophical thought. The result links immanence more intimately with dispossession than with the subject’s self-possession—and entwines it with the undercommons, as the atopic...

... and Jacob Appelbaum’s Autonomy Cube (2014)—an installation that initiates a public Wi-Fi hotspot using the open-source anonymizing Tor network. Allowing connected viewers to retain their independence from internet surveillance, this work is often discussed as offering a model of resistance in terms of self...

... and recount their life narrative. The first of these novels—Charles Gildon’s Golden Spy (1702)—gives voice to a bunch of coins. And the genre becomes self-reflexive when money starts to “coin words,” like the autobiographical protagonist of The Adventures of a Bank-Note (1770). Drawing on ancient sources...

... of the Belarusian past and its postcolonial present, which took place in the 1990s. Framed in negative terms and expressed through gestures of rejection, the Rebirth emerged as a form of apophatic nationalism that envisioned nationhood through an extensive cartography of nonbelonging and self-erasure. Following...

...Shaj Mohan Abstract Deconstruction was the beginning of a disassembly of metaphysics that now proceeds toward anastasis through the openings created by Jean-Luc Nancy. Deconstruction remained classical in the sense of its reliance on classical laws of thought, of which it remained the self-critique...

.... While such symptomatic thinking might seem to fulfill a psychologically inoculative function against impending catastrophe, the essay contends that it ultimately becomes a kind of autoimmune disorder: a prophetically self-fulfilling panic that makes it increasingly difficult to fathom, let alone to take...

... from their metaphysical to their everyday use.” The everyday use to which Wittgenstein constantly refers is far from self-evident: it is just as elusive and indeterminate as our forms of life. The project of Philosophical Investigations is not to replace disqualified logic with the study of use...

...Kathleen Powers Abstract The prion is a self-replicating protein that infects the central nervous system. This essay applies Georges Canguilhem’s criterion for life, biological normativity, to the prion for the purpose of arguing that the existence of the prion within living systems requires...

... signs to separate the self from the world. Ultimately, their aesthetic experiments and theoretical interventions revealed that formlessness is a limit concept—impossible to trace, grasp, perhaps even define. Yet the elusiveness of formlessness only makes it more alluring, so much so that we still feel...

.... Utilizing the exhibition as a point of contact between Bataillean base materialism and Asian Americanist subjectless discourse, the essay argues that Ouyang’s sculptures invoke violent self-deformation to perform an escape from the human body and a refusal of racial abstraction. In so doing, it expands...

...Gabriela Basterra Copyright © 2009 Qui Parle 2009 Does Creativity Deny Itself? Gabriela Basterra Since the onset of modernity, as part of the Enlightenment’s self- representation of Western culture, artistic creation and the human imagination have been linked to positive...

... as- sumptions about emotions. One of the central aims of the book is to bring to light how the Phenomenology displays and performs the limitations, self- contradictions, and failures of the Enlighten- ment paradigm of understanding emotions in contrast to reason. In the fi rst half...

... by deconstruction itself? Does this ap- proach help us to think of affects outside the classical conception of auto-affection, of affects that would not proceed from a prima- ry auto-affection of the subject? Does the study of the emotional brain challenge the vision of a self-affecting subjectivity in favor...

... competition, solipsism, self- aggrandizement—so inte- gral to and rewarded in the marketplace.1 Indeed, it is diffi cult to argue that social media at large do little else but construct and fortify what Michel Foucault designates homo economicus: that calculating spawn of neoliberalism who perceives...

... to hold, immaculate, monolithic, consistent wholes,” wrote Virginia Woolf in her diary.1 We should pause over the two terms neatly joined by Woolf’s am- persand, for they suggest different, perhaps antithetical, ways of thinking about the self. A mosaic, after all, is precisely an arrange- ment...

... not of self-knowledge but of social critique. Affect theory can be a sociology of accidental en- counters. It can be a psychoanalysis without end, both in leaving no stone unturned and in not caring to achieve a stable outcome. Affect theory can also refuse psychoanalysis and try to make feel- ings...

.... This focus on this almost immanentist irruption removes the divine from its isolated metaphysical transcendence and opens the subject to an experience of alterity that is both frightening (insofar as it reveals the world as an uncanny place) and redemptive (the self encounters...