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We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change
to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces
to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo
vulnerabilis is once again coming to terms with the fact that it
can be wounded, or even killed. Against such finitude, sovereignty
is now reasserting itself as a political power that might save us
from our ontological state. The irony is, of course, that such
sovereignty – for example through camps, walls, police violence,
or drones – is also the underlying, historical cause of many of
our most intense contemporary experiences of vulnerabilization.
Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both
the cause of our vulnerabilization and the phantasmatic tool of its
prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how
today’s experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a
collective human power that dismantles the form of sovereignty that
is producing this state of affairs. Focused on theories, paradigms,
and alternative formations of sovereignty, Being Vulnerable
reconsiders the tradition of thinking through a political concept
in order to approach it anew.
Finance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a
world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between
psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance
novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to
be things at all, but highly abstracted speculations, how do we
come to see the real? What sorts of narrative can accurately
approach the actual workings of a neoliberal economy marked by
accelerating cycles of market crashes, economic and political
crisis, and austerity? Revisiting such twentieth-century classics
of the genre as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton
Ellis's American Psycho, De Boever argues that the twenty-first
century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of realistic novel
that can make sense of complex financial instruments like
collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, and digital
algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or
computers can record. If in 1989 Wolfe could still urge novelists
to work harder to "tame the billion-footed beast of reality,"
today's economic reality confronts us with a difference that is
qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology
requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the
philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close reading
of finance novels by Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Ben Lerner
and less well-known works of conceptual writing such as Mathew
Timmons' Credit, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a
speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary
economy-an "if" whose implications turn out to be deeply political.
Part literary study and part philosophical inquiry, Finance
Fictions seeks to contribute to a new mindset for creative and
critical work on finance in the twenty-first century.
Finance Fictions takes the measure of what it means to live in a
world ruled by high finance by examining the tension between
psychosis and realism that plays out in the contemporary finance
novel. When the things traded at the center of the economy cease to
be things at all, but highly abstracted speculations, how do we
come to see the real? What sorts of narrative can accurately
approach the actual workings of a neoliberal economy marked by
accelerating cycles of market crashes, economic and political
crisis, and austerity? Revisiting such twentieth-century classics
of the genre as Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities and Bret Easton
Ellis's American Psycho, De Boever argues that the twenty-first
century is witnessing the birth of a new kind of realistic novel
that can make sense of complex financial instruments like
collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps, and digital
algorithms operating at speeds faster than what human beings or
computers can record. If in 1989 Wolfe could still urge novelists
to work harder to "tame the billion-footed beast of reality,"
today's economic reality confronts us with a difference that is
qualitative rather than quantitative: a new financial ontology
requiring new modes of thinking and writing. Mobilizing the
philosophical thought of Quentin Meillassoux in the close reading
of finance novels by Robert Harris, Michel Houellebecq, Ben Lerner
and less well-known works of conceptual writing such as Mathew
Timmons' Credit, Finance Fictions argues that realism is in for a
speculative update if it wants to take on the contemporary
economy-an "if" whose implications turn out to be deeply political.
Part literary study and part philosophical inquiry, Finance
Fictions seeks to contribute to a new mindset for creative and
critical work on finance in the twenty-first century.
Reconsiders exceptionalism between aesthetics and politics Here,
Arne De Boever proposes the notion of aesthetic exceptionalism to
describe the widespread belief that art and artists are
exceptional. Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism challenges that
belief by focusing on the sovereign artist as genius, as well as
the original artwork as the foundation of the art market. Engaging
with sculpture, conceptual artwork, and painting by emerging and
established artists, De Boever proposes a worldly, democratic
notion of unexceptional art as an antidote to the problems of
aesthetic exceptionalism. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of
thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis,
questioning, and speculation take the lead
Although the French philosopher, Hellenist and sinologist Francois
Jullien has published more than thirty books, half of which have
been translated into English, he remains much less known in the
English-language universe than many of his fellow "French
philosophers", which may be due to his work being perceived as
within the limits of sinology. This book attempts to rectify this,
highlighting Jullien's work at the intersection of Chinese and
Western thought and drawing out the "unthought-of" in both
traditions of thinking. This 'unthought-of' can be seen as the
culture that conditions our thought, lessening our capacity for new
ways of thinking and understanding. This notion of 'unthought-of'
is at the core of Jullien's methodology, operating in what he calls
the 'divergence of the in-between'. Written in an engaging style,
Arne de Boever offers an accessible introduction to Francois
Jullien's work, in the process emphatically challenging some of the
core assumptions of Western reasoning.
If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and
exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not
surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century
as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary
narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of
theoretical writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of J.M.
Coetzee's "Slow Man," Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go," Paul
Auster's "The Book of Illusions," and Tom McCarthy's "Remainder,"
it seeks to reframe debates about realism in the novel ranging from
Ian Watt to Zadie Smith as engagements with the novel's
biopolitical origins: its relation to pastoral care, the camps, and
the welfare state. Within such an understanding of the novel, what
possibilities for a critical aesthetics of existence does the
contemporary novel include?
In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political
situation in both the United States and abroad has often been
described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in
which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the
need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book
investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various
decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's
Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's
Austerlitz. De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what
he calls the 'aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the
characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of
crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and
political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal
about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers
the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage
in today's planetary state of exception.
If the September 11 terror attacks opened up an era of crises and
exceptions of which we are yet to see the end, it is perhaps not
surprising that care has emerged in the early twenty-first century
as a key political issue. This book approaches contemporary
narratives of care through the lens of a growing body of
theoretical writings on biopolitics. Through close-readings of J.M.
Coetzee's "Slow Man," Kazuo Ishiguro's "Never Let Me Go," Paul
Auster's "The Book of Illusions," and Tom McCarthy's "Remainder,"
it seeks to reframe debates about realism in the novel ranging from
Ian Watt to Zadie Smith as engagements with the novel's
biopolitical origins: its relation to pastoral care, the camps, and
the welfare state. Within such an understanding of the novel, what
possibilities for a critical aesthetics of existence does the
contemporary novel include?
Although the French philosopher, Hellenist and sinologist Francois
Jullien has published more than thirty books, half of which have
been translated into English, he remains much less known in the
English-language universe than many of his fellow "French
philosophers", which may be due to his work being perceived as
within the limits of sinology. This book attempts to rectify this,
highlighting Jullien's work at the intersection of Chinese and
Western thought and drawing out the "unthought-of" in both
traditions of thinking. This 'unthought-of' can be seen as the
culture that conditions our thought, lessening our capacity for new
ways of thinking and understanding. This notion of 'unthought-of'
is at the core of Jullien's methodology, operating in what he calls
the 'divergence of the in-between'. Written in an engaging style,
Arne de Boever offers an accessible introduction to Francois
Jullien's work, in the process emphatically challenging some of the
core assumptions of Western reasoning.
The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work to be published
in English. This collection of essays, including one by Simondon
himself, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the
implication of his thought for numerous disciplines and his
relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and
Canguilhem.Complete with a contextualising introduction and a
glossary of technical terms, it offers an entry point to this
important thinker and will appeal to people working in philosophy,
philosophy of science, media studies, social theory and political
philosophy.Gilbert Simondon's work has recently come to prominence
in America and around the Anglophone world, having been of great
importance in France for many years.
We are living in a time of acute vulnerability. From climate change
to drone warfare, terrorist attacks to mass shootings, safe spaces
to trigger warnings, not to mention the COVID-19 pandemic, homo
vulnerabilis is once again coming to terms with the fact that it
can be wounded, or even killed. Against such finitude, sovereignty
is now reasserting itself as a political power that might save us
from our ontological state. The irony is, of course, that such
sovereignty – for example through camps, walls, police violence,
or drones – is also the underlying, historical cause of many of
our most intense contemporary experiences of vulnerabilization.
Interrupting the dialectic by which sovereignty manages to be both
the cause of our vulnerabilization and the phantasmatic tool of its
prevention, in Being Vulnerable Arne De Boever explores how
today’s experiences of vulnerabilization can be translated into a
collective human power that dismantles the form of sovereignty that
is producing this state of affairs. Focused on theories, paradigms,
and alternative formations of sovereignty, Being Vulnerable
reconsiders the tradition of thinking through a political concept
in order to approach it anew.
In the aftermath of the September 11 terror attacks, the political
situation in both the United States and abroad has often been
described as a "state of exception": an emergency situation in
which the normal rule of law is suspended. In such a situation, the
need for good decisions is felt ever more strongly. This book
investigates the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of various
decisions represented in novels published around 9/11: Martel's
Life of Pi, Eugenides' Middlesex, Coetzee's Disgrace, and Sebald's
Austerlitz. De Boever's readings of the novels revolve around what
he calls the aesthetic decision.' Which aesthetics do the
characters and narrators in the novels adopt in a situation of
crisis? How do these aesthetic decisions relate to the ethical and
political decisions represented in the novels? What can they reveal
about real-life ethical and political decisions? This book uncovers
the politics of allegory, autobiography, focalization, and montage
in today's planetary state of exception.
Does sovereignty have a future in the 21st century? Through a
sustained engagement with the work of the Italian philosopher
Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of contemporary
political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what positive
political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might still hold.
Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues that these
possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation of
sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and
explode the forms of our political future.
Through a sustained engagement with the work of the Italian
philosopher Giorgio Agamben, and against the background of
contemporary political phenomena, Arne De Boever explores what
positive political possibilities the notion of sovereignty might
still hold. Using the philosophy of Catherine Malabou, he argues
that these possibilities reside in an aesthetic reconceptualisation
of sovereignty as a plastic power that is able to give, receive and
explode the forms of our political future.
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