Epidemic Subjects - Radical Ontology

ISBN-13: 9783037345962 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str.

Elisabeth Von Samsonow

Opis

Modern philosophy continues to grapple with the idea of subjectivity--and, as the concept of subjectivity has consequently been repeatedly refined and redefined, the struggle has spread to the ways we conceive of sovereignty, collectivity, nationality, and identity as a result. Yet, in the absence of an authoritative account of these central philosophical concepts, exciting new ways of thinking have emerged which continue to develop and evolve.

Epidemic Subjects--Radical Ontology brings together a renowned team of contributors, including Levi Bryant, Angela Melitopoulos, and Susan Stryker, who together forge a radically inclusive definition of subjectivity. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concept of the "girl" as a heuristic device for examining modern society and its foundations, they tie together recent trends in philosophy and offer a concrete way forward from the conception of the "thing" or "object" privileged by new materialism, speculative realism, and other theories of subjectivity.

Spis treści

7 - 12 Epidemic Subjects (Elisabeth von Samsonow)13 - 27 Becoming-Girl: Compossibility, Intersectionality, and Agency (Suzana Milevska)29 - 49 Two Ontologies: Posthumanism and Lacan's Graph of Sexuation (Levi R. Bryant)51 - 65 Girl: A Paradigmatic Example of Evolutionary Disobedience (Arantzazu Saratxaga Arregi)67 - 79 Pandora's Toy, or zoon technicon and the Technical Ghosts of the Future (Boyan Manchev)81 - 88 Theory of Evolution (Peter Sloterdijk)89 - 97 Weird Wired Viral: A Graphic Novel (Karin Ferrari)99 - 117 Tearing the Neoliberal Subject (Francesca Coin)119 - 133 The American Girl and the Horror of (In)Justice (Johanna Braun)135 - 147 Autism and Networks (Angela Melitopoulos)149 - 164 Latency: Biography of an Omniscient Spy (Elisabeth von Samsonow)165 - 167 Contributors

O autorze

Elisabeth von Samsonow ist Bildhauerin und Ordentliche Universitätsprofessorin für Philosophische und historische Anthropologie der Kunst an der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Sie lebt und arbeitet in Wien und Hadres (Weinviertel, Niederösterreich). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Philosophie und Religionsgeschichte, Theorie des kollektiven Bewusstseins, Geschichte und Gegenwart der Beziehung zwischen Kunst und Religion, Theorie und Geschichte der Wahrnehmung der Frau sowie weibliche Identität und die Aufhebung des Ichs in der Moderne.