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Deleuze, a philosophy of the event : together with The vocabulary of Deleuze
\"This edition makes a new translation of two of Zourabichvili's most important writings on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze available in a single volume. Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event (1994) is an exposition of Deleuze's philosophy as a whole, while the complementary Deleuze's Vocabulary (2003) approaches Deleuze's work through an analysis of key concepts in a dictionary form. From the publication of Deleuze: A Philosophy of the Event to his untimely death in 2006, Franًcois Zourabichvili was regarded as one of the most important new voices of contemporary philosophy in France. His work continues to make an essential contribution to Deleuze scholarship today, and this new translation is set to become an event within Deleuze Studies for many years to come.\" -- Publisher's website.
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Cruel Festivals: Furio Jesi and the Critique of Political Autonomy
This article evaluates Furio Jesi's conception of mythic violence, focusing in particular on his theory of revolt as a mode of collective experience qualitatively distinct from that of revolution. Jesi offers both a descriptive phenomenology of how uprisings alter the human experience of time and action, as well as a critique of the \"autonomy\" these moments afford their participants. In spite of their immense transformative power to interrupt historical time and generate alternate forms of collective subjectivation, the event-like structure of revolt also harbors within it a unique set of dangers. Such creative mutations risk trapping political actors within a relational logic of the exception, a \"ban\" structure that, although distinct from the atomization that governs normal time, ultimately works to reinforce it in the long run. The article concludes by suggesting that Jesi's late concept of the \"cruel festival\" offers a troubling premonition of our current era, in which revolts proliferate in the absence of any ideological horizon of revolution.
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Symposium Introduction: Myth and Politics in Furio Jesi
This symposium gathers original translations, commentaries, and unpublished documents related to the rich and multidisciplinary oeuvre of Italian mythologist and critical theorist Furio Jesi (1941–1980). Although relatively unknown in Anglophone circles, Jesi casts a long shadow in the world of Italian letters. In spite of his tragic death at the young age of 39, the autodidact from Turin left behind him an immense body of work, including some 20 monographs, as well as novels, articles, translations, poetry, and journalism. While it was his many books on German literature and poetry that would eventually land him a position at the University of Palermo in 1976 (in spite of his never completing any formal education), Jesi was also well-known in his day as an archaeologist, a philologist, a prolific translator and editor, as well as an active participant in the avant-gard theater milieu and the left-wing of the communist movement.
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François Zourabichvili’s “Deleuze and the Possible: on Involuntarism in Politics”
According to this view, a revolution already has the character of a subjective mutation, and would itself render void the very projects that inaugurated it, since they would still belong to the previous field of possibility. [...]the 'axes' invoked by Deleuze to define the new field of the possible opened up by May 68: pacifism along the West-East axis, a new form of internationalism along the North-South axis.21 Vectorial, directional, problematic, the field of the possible has the consistency of movement, political organization as movement. [...]it consists in challenging every form of voluntarism. [...]every revolution is stillborn, but not in the way this is normally understood: the precarious continuance of the vanishing depends on its incessant reprisal, so that revolutions die from the inability to repeat, or the suffocation of repetition (under the forces of subservience that denounce it as 'treason').
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Cartographies of Capture
This article provides a thematic overview of the work of contemporary French philosopher Grégoire Chamayou. It suggests that the notion of violent capture serves as a guiding theme linking Chamayou's work, linking it to his early study of experimental medicine, his genealogy of manhunting and predatory power, as well as his recent study of contemporary predatory or \"cynegetic\" warfare use of drones.
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The Political Logic of Destituent Power: Time, Subjectivity, and Revolutionary Violence
This dissertation is a study of the relation between time, subjectivity, and violence in revolutionary social transformation. It argues that Giorgio Agamben's theory of 'destituent power' offers a compelling reconception of the meaning and function of revolutionary violence, whose originality is bound up in the theory of time from which it cannot be dissociated. The thesis demonstrates that the development of this theory required that Agamben revise his earlier conception of political violence and revolutionary time. While the definition of revolutionary violence remains constant throughout his work (as 'the restoration of participation in the creation of the world'), the nature and the means of this creation shift. Specifically, two developments are emphasized here: first, a shift from a negative, Marxist logic of self-abolition to one of deactivation or destitution; second, a change in the temporal logic of revolutionary transformation, which is no longer associated with the suspension of historical time, but with a logic of ‘operative’ time. The thesis also explores the important influence that Furio Jesi's theory of insurrectional temporarily exerted on Agamben's theory of destitution.
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Fichte's Passport - A Philosophy of the Police
[...]we can immediately grasp the novelty of Fichte's proposal: to generalize the system of passports across the entire population, making it a universal, obligatory and permanent system.4 If the police could be reduced to a single principle or formula, it would end with a question mark. [...]after an interval of dozens of pages, we find in Fichte's text a revealing hiatus regarding the differential status of the face in matters of morality as well as those of the police. [...]movements can be strictly controlled, as we can continually track each and every one of them.8 Thus equipped, the police know where everyone has been, where they are, and where they are headed. [...]defined, Fichte's passport functions as an apparatus for the traceability of people, today understood in the broad sense of the term as the \"ability to find the history, the use or the location of an entity by means of registered identifications. [...]the term bill of exchange: they can be exchanged in fine for money, converted into money.
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