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...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...

... of the black eunuch slave in medieval Persian history. The difficulty of the historicity of race produces and involves crises of origins that manifest in traumatic encounters with trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean slavery that explode the scalar coherence made possible by established narratives of racial...

... in contemporary Caribbean poetics, politics, and matters of New World identity. How is it that an identity can be—or even could have been—formed out of such a painful, traumatic past? What does the cultural work of the intellectual, rooted in the geog- raphy of thinking (for Glissant...

... response. However, instead of directing his antagonistic feelings toward enslavement, he turns them in on the self before misdirecting them at Mister based on a rivalry engendered by white patriarchal slavery. That slavery could in- spire such debilitating envy and traumatic...

..., or at least the place where the other as pro- jected text—and a projection only to the extent that our fear of traumatized loss (of being exposed to the stereotypical other) re- quires fetishism to be representable at all—meets the singular vio- lence of repudiation. And so...

... memory politics founded on hierarchical comparison and structured by the assumption that there are measurable (even if traumatically immeasurable) contents to memories, and therefore correct, sufficient, and equivalent modes for memorialization. Such an assumption gives rise to proprietary rubrics...

... and Pandolfo: Testimony in Counterpoint 65 the economy of the institutional encounter, where illness and pain can only be authenticated as standardized and atomized suffering. At a time when the narrative and cinematic representation of traumatic events and what has been called the “biographical arti...

... notice; it is that this failure seems somehow more terrible than any terrorist act might ever prove. Both the blackout and the time bomb become signs of a ruined revolutionary act, analogous to the deforming after-images that congeal around all traumatic intrusions. Just as de Man insists...

... to Baldwin. In the second half I depart from this thesis to offer a more capacious account of black horror spectatorship that need not maintain a traumatized fixation on a more horrifying real. Although I understand the political importance that such trauma-based claims have, the way that they naturalize...

... in their life prospects vis-à-vis people of color and upper-class whites. While Gest’s book may be lumped together with Cramer’s as a study of the white working class, Gest’s population is very different. Focusing on white working-class populations in what he calls the “post-traumatic cities” of Youngstown...

... friend Gifford Maxim, whose decision to leave the Communist Party precipitates the novel’s central crisis. Laskell is traumatized by Maxim’s dramatic break, which he sees as a “morally repugnant act of betrayal” ( bl , 108). What is it about the liberal theoretical disposition (or liberal...

... be appropriately adapted. As Lem suggests with Solaris , the condition of semiperipherality is defined by epistemological violence imposed on it by the center, that is not by definition attached to material exploitation and is traumatic in and of itself in the ways in which it affects subject building...

... a chain of associations with traumatic history, they also invoke the future. 51 The philosophical orientation of “inverted intentionality” throws into relief the fact that in Bark the viewers insert themselves and their own time into the disjointed temporal matrix of genocidal history, thereby...

... the extinction of meaning that clears the way for the intelligibility of extinction. Senselessness and purposive- ness are not merely privative; they represent a gain in intelligi- bility. . . . [T]he will to know is driven by the traumatic reality of extinction, and strives...

... returning, as if on automatic replay, citing the traumatism of a historical repetition compulsion. As distant as the imaginary field of reception must seem at times, its tireless reach is awesome, spills into the way we move or stagger through darkened fields of political comprehension. . . . Ach! I...

... our own personal desires with any hope of controlling the narrative. This focus on the question of sanity signifies another form of intra-action, or deep entanglement, when it comes to diasporic Blackness. As in all traumatic histories, the question of sanity and knowing is deeply problematic...

..., an encounter, a violent shock. Thought does not begin from itself but is the traumatized response to an event. For Deleuze, “truth depends on an encounter with something that forces to think and to seek the truth. . . . It is the accident of the encounter that guarantees the necessity of what is thought.” 7...

... witnessing the effects of the Holocaust and the large photograph of the tented dead, that his behavior, his strangeness on this earth, was somehow connected to his witnessing. Le Strange’s traumatized behavior, we are led to infer, is not a private pathology but a symptom of history...

... the most recent performance of Aida in the history of the world. As the overture began its very familiar strains, I said to myself, This is the most recent Aida of all time, and its recentness is a shock, a traumatic collision—but also a vastly exciting one—between Ai- da’s atemporality...

... as a representation of the unspeakable/the traumatic; blank space as a representation of (lost) space; blank space as a representation of the space of memory and remembrance; and blank space as a representation of the narrative space and the space of reflection.” 11 Rothstein’s analysis allows us to read Sharpe’s...