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There’s no shame in a continental philosopher saying they are a
Marxist, but it’s almost impossible to admit to being an
anarchist. Silently, perhaps even unknowingly, philosophical
anarchism “borrows” its definition from political anarchism,
but the two remain strangers to each other. What do Reiner
Schürmann, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault,
Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière have in common? Each of them
ascribed a determining ontological, ethical, or political value to
anarchy – yet not a single one ever called themselves an
“anarchist.” It is as if anarchism were unmentionable and had
to be concealed, even though its critique of domination and of
government is poached by the philosophers. In a semantic
revolution, anarchists redefined anarchy not as disorder but as
organization free of the “governmental prejudice.” Without this
definition – taken directly from political anarchist Joseph
Proudhon – none of the philosophical concepts of anarchy would
have been possible. Stop Thief! Anarchism and
Philosophy calls out the plundering of anarchism by
philosophy. It’s a call that is all the more resonant today as
the planetary demand for an alternative political realm raises a
deafening cry. It also alerts us to a new philosophical awakening.
Catherine Malabou proposes to answer the cry by re-elaborating a
concept of anarchy articulated around a notion of the
“non-governable” far beyond an inciting of disobedience or
common critiques of capitalism. Anarchism is the only way out, the
only pathway that allows us to question the legitimacy of political
domination and to unsettle our confidence that we need to be led if
we are to survive.
There’s no shame in a continental philosopher saying they are a
Marxist, but it’s almost impossible to admit to being an
anarchist. Silently, perhaps even unknowingly, philosophical
anarchism “borrows” its definition from political anarchism,
but the two remain strangers to each other. What do Reiner
Schürmann, Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault,
Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière have in common? Each of them
ascribed a determining ontological, ethical, or political value to
anarchy – yet not a single one ever called themselves an
“anarchist.” It is as if anarchism were unmentionable and had
to be concealed, even though its critique of domination and of
government is poached by the philosophers. In a semantic
revolution, anarchists redefined anarchy not as disorder but as
organization free of the “governmental prejudice.” Without this
definition – taken directly from political anarchist Joseph
Proudhon – none of the philosophical concepts of anarchy would
have been possible. Stop Thief! Anarchism and
Philosophy calls out the plundering of anarchism by
philosophy. It’s a call that is all the more resonant today as
the planetary demand for an alternative political realm raises a
deafening cry. It also alerts us to a new philosophical awakening.
Catherine Malabou proposes to answer the cry by re-elaborating a
concept of anarchy articulated around a notion of the
“non-governable” far beyond an inciting of disobedience or
common critiques of capitalism. Anarchism is the only way out, the
only pathway that allows us to question the legitimacy of political
domination and to unsettle our confidence that we need to be led if
we are to survive.
What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries
between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the
cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher
Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the
intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the
technological, and the symbolic. Malabou traces the modern
metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how
neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed
our view. She considers three crucial developments: the notion of
intelligence as an empirical, genetically based quality measurable
by standardized tests; the shift to the epigenetic paradigm, with
its emphasis on neural plasticity; and the dawn of artificial
intelligence, with its potential to simulate, replicate, and
ultimately surpass the workings of the brain. Malabou concludes
that a dialogue between human and cybernetic intelligence offers
the best if not the only means to build a democratic future. A
strikingly original exploration of our changing notions of
intelligence and the human and their far-reaching philosophical and
political implications, Morphing Intelligence is an essential
analysis of the porous border between symbolic and biological life
at a time when once-clear distinctions between mind and machine
have become uncertain.
A former student and collaborator of Jacques Derrida, Catherine
Malabou has generated worldwide acclaim for her progressive
rethinking of postmodern, Derridean critique. Building on her
notion of plasticity, a term she originally borrowed from Hegel's
"Phenomenology of Spirit" and adapted to a reading of Hegel's own
work, Malabou transforms our understanding of the political and the
religious, revealing the malleable nature of these concepts and
their openness to positive reinvention.
In French to describe something as plastic is to recognize both
its flexibility and its explosiveness-its capacity not only to
receive and give form but to annihilate it as well. After defining
plasticity in terms of its active embodiments, Malabou applies the
notion to the work of Hegel, Heidegger, Levinas, Levi-Strauss,
Freud, and Derrida, recasting their writing as a process of change
(rather than mediation) between dialectic and deconstruction.
Malabou contrasts plasticity against the graphic element of
Derrida's work and the notion of trace in Derrida and Levinas,
arguing that plasticity refers to sculptural forms that accommodate
or express a trace. She then expands this analysis to the realms of
politics and religion, claiming, against Derrida, that "the event"
of justice and democracy is not fixed but susceptible to human
action.
What is intelligence? The concept crosses and blurs the boundaries
between natural and artificial, bridging the human brain and the
cybernetic world of AI. In this book, the acclaimed philosopher
Catherine Malabou ventures a new approach that emphasizes the
intertwined, networked relationships among the biological, the
technological, and the symbolic. Malabou traces the modern
metamorphoses of intelligence, seeking to understand how
neurobiological and neurotechnological advances have transformed
our view. She considers three crucial developments: the notion of
intelligence as an empirical, genetically based quality measurable
by standardized tests; the shift to the epigenetic paradigm, with
its emphasis on neural plasticity; and the dawn of artificial
intelligence, with its potential to simulate, replicate, and
ultimately surpass the workings of the brain. Malabou concludes
that a dialogue between human and cybernetic intelligence offers
the best if not the only means to build a democratic future. A
strikingly original exploration of our changing notions of
intelligence and the human and their far-reaching philosophical and
political implications, Morphing Intelligence is an essential
analysis of the porous border between symbolic and biological life
at a time when once-clear distinctions between mind and machine
have become uncertain.
L'intention de ce numero est de donner la parole aux femmes et de
voir la dictature sous un autre angle: la dictature vue et vecue
par celles-ci. Non seulement par les femmes-ecrivains (Marie
Vieux-Chauvet, Nadine Magloire, Janine Tavernier, Jacqueline
Beauge...) mais aussi par des personnages feminins dans les romans
ecrits par des femmes (Rose dans Colere de Marie Vieux-Chauvet,
Annie dans Autopsie In Vivo de Nadine Magloire, Odile dans La
memoire aux abois d'Evelyne Trouillot, Nirvah dans Saisons Sauvages
de Kettly Mars...). Il faut egalement tenir compte de la dictature
du genre, de la domination masculine. Le temps est venu de donner
aux femmes le droit de parler de leur vie, de leurs experiences en
tant que femme, de construire leur propre personnage.
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