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Shame as a geophilosophical force

In this article, I argue that Deleuze and Guattari’s famous trope about “an earth and a people that are lacking” in the Geophilosophy chapter of What Is Philosophy? must be examined through a ... , resistance to stupidity, and the invention of a future form of philosophy, opened to the excluded of Modern reason, could be reactivated in a new geophilosophical way. Stengers’ political fight against

Geophilosophies: towards another sense of the earth

The relationship between ‘philosophy’ and the ‘geo’ has received renewed attention with the rise of the terrestrial and the planetary as leitmotifs for thinking about the collective subjectivation of ... kinds of territorial abstraction. Three decades since Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari published What is Philosophy?, book that has a lasting legacy in developing geophilosophy as a particular mode of

Affective archives as political impasse

Philosophy, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. She is the author of Violence and Political Fantasy (Wiesbaden, 2009), and Radical Sociality: Studies on Disobedience, Violence and Belonging (2013 ... , University of London , London , UK 2 Duquesne University , Pittsburgh, PA , USA 3 Institute of Philosophy, Universidad Diego Portales , Santiago , Chile This special issue presents work of the

Žižek, political philosophy and subjectivity

1-6 www.palgrave-journals.com/sub/ Zˇ izˇek, political philosophy and subjectivity 0 Calum Neill School of Health and Social Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University , Edinburgh , UK 1 Derek Hook ... is one of the few voices within contemporary philosophy to have advanced a radical and substantive political alternative to such conceptualizations. His philosophical writings have brought a

From ‘world’ to ‘earth’: non-phenomenological subjectivity in Deleuze and Guattari

With the invention of the concept of ‘geophilosophy’, Deleuze and Guattari did not intend to invoke a new subfield of philosophy; for them, all philosophy is geophilosophy by virtue of its ... ; Deleuze; Geophilosophy; Earth; Subjectivity; Tournier - Introduction “Philosophy”, Deleuze and Guattari (1994, p. 95) argue, “is a geophilosophy”. This simple yet extraordinary claim represents a radical

Intuition as a “trained thing”: sensing, thinking, and speculating in computational cultures

how we might encounter pre-emergent social, cultural, political, and economic forces and relations (Williams 1977; Berlant 2011) —conversations which continue to evolve amid advancements in artificial ... extend ontopolitical modes of control as corporations and governing institutions seek to translate all human affect and action into data points for the generation of profit or political gain. Reflecting

As we may think now

/article/10.1057/s41286-023-00170-x) , Carolyn Pedwell traces the place of intuition in reasoning, drawing on a wide range of disciplines from psychology and decision theory to the philosophy of mathematics ... Brouwer on intuition and logic . NAW , 191 - 195 . Day , S. , C. Lury , and H. Ward . 2023 . Personalization: A New Political Arithmetic? Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory . https://doi.org/10.1080

Yannis Stavrakakis (ed) Routledge handbook of psychoanalytic political theory

critical deployment of psychoanalytic theories and methods in order to interrogate politics and political questions could not be more urgent. Increasing political polarisation is visible across the world ... psychoanalysis offer to the study of politics and fields beyond the clinic such as political studies? If anything, politics are rarely truly rational. The recently published Routledge Handbook of Psychoanalytic

‘Is it okay to have a child?’: figuring subjectivities and reproductive decisions in response to climate change

, desire figures as a political and psychological force in the texts that we read, helping to disrupt the rationalisation of climate responses across deeply unjust categories of race, class and gender. And ... , Lertzman learns that a melancholic response to ecological losses can also produce political apathy. Melancholia stuns the subject into statis, whereby they cannot relationally process and mourn their loss

Self-optimization and self-help: mediating subject formations in twentieth-century mass cultures

(empirical and theoretical) research in the social and political sciences, these papers focus on textual strategies as they emerge in close readings of the texts at hand. The ultimate objective in looking ... appetites, and were promised at the same time new spaces of authority. Instructing female readers in self-discipline and self-surveillance, diet discourses initially promised women political and economic

Does the COVID-19 pandemic lead to an infra-state of exception: Turkey’s responses and dismantling its medico-scientific policies

-neoliberal authorities for pandemic containment competed, the governments of countries like Turkey resorted to introverted national measures. Such neoliberal trends entailed the invention of new political and ... medical pathways that consequently gave rise to new power structures and subjectivities by both local and global actors. In connection with juridico-political studies and healthcare practices, Michel

Caveman, genius, artist, entrepreneur: success and self-realization from literary naturalism to advice literature

expressive and economic goals, and which anticipates contemporary constructions of work as a pursuit of creative self-expression and self-actualization. In 1914, the Progressive writer and political ... political economists from Adam Smith to Marx,9 around the turn of the twentieth century work began to be considered a natural mode of human expression and therefore a source of personal satisfaction. Daniel T

Being human as praxis: for people with learning disabilities

scholarly, artistic and activist community that understands disability as a complex mix of biological, psychological, relational, social, historical, cultural, political, institutional, systemic, material ... -labelled are routinely sidelined in the scholarship of transformative arenas such as critical pedagogy, critical and community psychology, feminist philosophy and social inclusion (Rapley 2004; Erevelles

Subjectivity and algorithmic imaginaries: the algorithmic other

Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan , Milan , Italy 1 University of Turin , Turin , Italy 2 University of Birmingham , Birmingham , UK The notion of algorithmic imaginaries has been ... have designed it [the algorithm]… To me, what’s relevant is who stays behind the algorithms, whether it is an association, political party or a company. […] so the ethics of who has designed it and the

Polic(sh)ing up the Leipzig Main Station: an ethnographic reflection on abjection, space and resistance

political spaces. Threshold experiences, Lexington Books, Lanham, 2014) help me to outline ‘abject space’ as a space of negotiation and contradiction. ... undocumented migrants from North Africa. This phenomenon becomes the initial point for a small-scale resistance movement initiated by a theatre performer and political activist with a Tunisian background

In defense of vulnerability

philosophy of vulnerability for tools to rethink the political possibilities of what ‘being vulnerable’ can articulate. By thinking about this work in relation to a group of children and young people whose ... Services 2010) as ‘biological organisms out of kilter’ when in fact, in her view, they should be constructed as ‘structurally positioned sites of complex social, economic, political, transnational and

“Where there’s a will, there’s a way:” contingency, mobility, and subjectification at the Stratemeyer Syndicate

socio-political factors). Andrew Carnegie celebrated this mindset when, in his philanthropic program, he declared that “feelings of ‘usefulness,’ and habits of self-reliance” would plant “’the germ of ... Revolution . Political Geography 49 : 51 - 63 . Nash , I. 2006 . American Sweethearts. Teenage Girls in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture . Bloomington: Indiana UP. Ohmann , R. 1996 . Selling Culture

The affective-discursive ‘pruning’ of neoliberal selves: introducing the notion of self-othering

problems into personal (psychological) deficits as a result of which political and structural critiques become silenced—or rather unspeakable. Because the narrative of the autonomous, freely choosing ... can ask about the ethical and political implications of othering certain feelings, wishes and sensations by discursively framing them as invalid or undesirable. As many critics of the positivity and

Affectivity, subjectivity, and vulnerability: on the new forces of mass hysteria

larger framework of social and political control. To argue this point is also to adumbrate how mass hysteria is manufactured under authoritarian conditions in which bizarre, outlandish collective behavior ... also a need for looking at how these forces can be steered under certain conditions to shape subjectivity for the accomplishment of social and political goals. From this angle, mass hysteria is ripe for

Editor’s introduction

mark the passing of Bruno Latour, we publish this appreciation of his life and work: The People of Ideas - What Latour Does to Philosophy, by Didier Debaise. It was originally published in French and