scholarly journals Mourning and Grievability: Several Remarks on Judith Butler’s Politics of Living Together

2021 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 97-121
Author(s):  
Aleksander Kopka
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Bond ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Living Together ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One

In this article, I focus on the function of the notions of precariousness, vulnerability, and grievability of life in Judith Butler’s writings, and reflect upon their place in a broader context of the thought of what I call, following Jacques Derrida, “originary mourning.” On the one hand, therefore, I want to reconstruct Butler’s task of rethinking the possibi-lity of creating a community based on the equal allocation of precariousness and grievability. Such a reflection allows Butler to treat grievability as an insightful and unique passageway to the problematics of safeguarding of life and equality between living beings. On the other hand, by referring to the writings of Jacques Derrida, I want to inscribe Butler’s notions of precariousness and grievability in a broader framework of mourning, to show how every constitution of a social bond based on the principle of shared precariousness and vulnerability inevitably has to come up against the paradox of its genesis.

Filosofia, politica e società ai tempi della pandemia. Agamben e la «paranoia della ragione»

2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 617-642
Author(s):  
Antonio Di Chiro
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Intimate Relations ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One

In this essay we will try to analyze the thought of the philosopher Giorgio Agamben on the pandemic. The aim of the work is twofold. On the one hand, we will try to demonstrate that Agamben’s positions on the pandemic are not to be understood as mere extemporaneous statements, but as integral parts of his philosophy. On the other hand, we will try to show how these positions are based on a deeply paranoid and anti-scientific vision, since Agamben believes that the effects of the epidemic have been exaggerated by the centers of power in order to create a “state of exception” that allows to crumble social life and to use the fear of poverty as a tool to dominate society. We will try to demonstrate that it is precisely starting from the critique of Agamben’s positions that it is possible to rethink a philosophy and a politic to come and a new reorganization of social and intimate relations between human beings.

The Politics of Robot Autonomy

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 341-360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Burri
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ongoing Process ◽  
Autonomous Weapons ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
Philosophical Understanding

The autonomy robots enjoy is understood in different ways. On the one hand, a technical understanding of autonomy is firmly anchored in the present and concerned with what can be achieved now by means of code and programming; on the other hand, a philosophical understanding of robot autonomy looks into the future and tries to anticipate how robots will evolve in the years to come. The two understandings are at odds at times, occasionally they even clash. However, not one of them is necessarily truer than the other. Each is driven by certain real-life factors; each rests on its own justification. This article discusses these two “views of robot autonomy” in depth and witnesses them at work at two of the most relevant events of robotics in recent times, namely the Darpa Robotics Challenge, which took place in California in June 2015, and the ongoing process to address lethal autonomous weapons in humanitarian Geneva, which is spurred on by a “Campaign to Stop Killer Robots”.

scholarly journals From Displacements of Form to Auratic Trace: Notes on Didi-Huberman’s Thinking on Images

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (26) ◽  
pp. 248-272
Author(s):  
Alice Mara Serra
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dialectical Image ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Nous Voyons ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

This text underlines the way in which, for Georges Didi-Huberman, topics including matter, symptom and memory become primordial to the thinking of images. But as Didi-Huberman proceeds, the course that leads him to highlight such topics first addresses other topics that, inphilosophy and iconography, sought to deny such readings, namely: image as form and its correlative meanings, that is, image as symbol and image as visibility. Didi-Huberman, however, argues that the notion of form may no longer be merely opposed to that of matter, nor be considered as solely idealistic. If, on the one hand, Didi-Huberman presents the insufficiency of the deconstruction of the notion of form presented by Jacques Derrida, on the other hand, the displacements of the notion of form proposed specially in Ce que nous voyons ce qui nous regardepoint to an approximation to deconstruction, mostly to the themes of trace, index and “the belows” (les dessous) of images. In addition, passages of this and other works of Didi-Huberman may insinuate a connection between the notions of trace and aura, which refer to convergences concerning the deconstruction of the visible and the dialectical image. This text seeks to reconstruct such directions from writings of Didi-Huberman and, in this way, restores other writings that border on them: specially from Jacques Derrida and Walter Benjamin.

Insistering Derrida: Cixous, Deconstruction, and the Work of Archive

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Verne Harris
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Other ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
National Library ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One

Geneses, Genealogies, Genres, and Genius: The Secrets of the Archive is the lecture Jacques Derrida gave in 2003 at an event to honor Hélène Cixous and mark the donation of her archive to the National Library of France. The lecture was a moving tribute to Cixous (her corpus, her genius, her archive), but it was also Derrida's reading of Cixous' "secrets of the archive". This essay explores "the secrets" - those of Cixous, those of Derrida - along two primary lines of enquiry. On the one hand, the question of archival stakes - what stakes are at play in archive? On the other, the question of the work of archive. For both Cixous and Derrida the work of archive is an endless opening to what is being "othered" and a tireless importuning of a justice-to-come. The work of archive is justice. But what does that work look like? Is there a deconstructive praxis in archive shaped by the call to, and of, justice? What stranger emerges from an insistering of the familiar Derridean formulations?

The Changing Relationship between Local Society and the Central Political Power in Former Han: 206 B.C.–8 A.D.

1965 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 358-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cho-Yun Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Political Power ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Local Society ◽  
Elite Group ◽  
Local Elite ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

The consolidation of China did not come immediately with China's unification. It was not fully accomplished until the middle of the Former (Western) Han. The monolithic2 nature of the political powers and a group of local elite3 were then forming. And the bureaucracy, becoming much elaborated during this era, served to link the two. The elite group functioned, on the one hand as the reservoir of candidates to officialdom, and on the other hand, as the leading element with education, prestige, and often wealth, in the community. Based on these concepts, this paper ventures to present the formation of the local elite group through the changing social base of political power during Western Han.

scholarly journals Art=life? Deleuze, badiou and ontology of the human

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 392-413
Author(s):  
Andrija Filipovic ◽  
Bojana Matejic
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Global Society ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Current State ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
To Come ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The One ◽  
Society Of Control

The idea of the relation between art and life as becoming-life of art is a consequence of specific modern developments ranging from the Enlightenment to capitalism. This assemblage of thought and practice is present in one of the most dominant art forms today, and the task of this paper is to reassess the current state of affairs in art considering that the current state of affairs in art is a symptom of the global society of control. In order to be emancipatory art, on the one hand, Art presupposes de-substantialization and deessentialization of the biopolitically formed life and the category of Man, while on the other hand it also presupposes a new ?generic in-humanum? (in Badiou), that is, a people to come (in Deleuze) as the basis of politicity. Hence, emancipatory art needs to break away with the human in order to reach that which is beyond the current democratic materialism.

scholarly journals (Re)conceptualizing Difference in the Context of the Acting Subject’s Identity

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-108
Author(s):  
Anna Walczak
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

What is the source and the effect of the acting subject’s identity? This question refers to difference, but not in its usual conceptualization, synonymous with a border and the need to maintain or transcend it. By reconceptualizing difference, which I see as “re-creating” the meaning and linking it with “added” meanings, this article restores its original load (importance) in being an acting subject, mediated in otherness. For this purpose, the différance of Jacques Derrida is invoked and his statements about it combined with those of other philosophers, in whom I found what is related and/or complementary and extends not only Derrida's thought, but that which constitutes the main theme of this article. On the one hand, otherness is an impulse to the “work” of the difference, and on the other hand, it is its effect. What is the role of the “work” of the difference in creating the identity of the acting subject? In connection with the “shift” of the effect of its work – otherness, into the area of the identity of the acting subject, can this subject say about itself: this is still me? In this context, what is responsive ethics, which, I believe, should be included in the contemporary humanistic and social discourse about the subject?

scholarly journals Neurocracia: la Democracia del Tercer Milenio

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (68) ◽  
pp. 896-913
Author(s):  
Juan Guillermo Estay Sepúlveda ◽  
Mario Lagomarsino Montoya ◽  
Juan Mansilla Sepúlveda ◽  
Rosalba Mancina-Chávez ◽  
Alex Véliz Burgos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Social Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Living Together ◽  
The World ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The One

Democracy is a chimera for many who feel that she will never knock on her doors. But that democracy is already part of a past when it comes to seeing science move forward and the world begins a gap between those who have and those who do not have in every sense of thinking and acting of the human. In these new times of social media-fed cyber millennialism on the one hand and laboratories on the other hand, the new war for those who master thought will be fought at the bit level and Artificial Intelligence. This is where neurocracy begins its journey as -perhaps- the new way of living and living together. The objective of this essay is to make known how this new way of thinking, feeling, and acting of human coexistence is entering into our daily work. The results obtained when thinking about the work, is of having shown that the middle maas and AI have arrived to stay in an increasingly dystopian planetary scenario.

scholarly journals The case of erythrophobia

2020 ◽  
Vol V (4) ◽  
pp. 153-160
Author(s):  
N. M. Popov
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Picture ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Prominent Symptom ◽  
The Face ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One

In the specialized literature for the last time, a description of a rather peculiar nervous suffering began to come across, which Pitres and Rgis called erythrophobia and the most prominent symptom of which is the periodically arising fear of reddening, on the one hand, a fearful reddening of the face, on the other hand. Apparently, the first indication of such a combination of clinical phenomena we find in Casper back in 1846. But the observation of this author, known to me only from the work of Westphalya (Ueber Zwangsvorstellungen. 1877. Berl. Klin. Woch. 1877), is too cited last day in general terms, so that one can speak about him with the desired certainty. After Casper, not one of the clinicians focused their attention on such cases, and only in 1896 appeared almost simultaneously several works devoted to the suffering of interest to us. Dugas (Revue philosophique, dec. 1896), Campbell (Brif. Med. Journal, 25 sept. 1896); Breton (Gazette des hpit. 20 oct. 1896), Pitres et Rgis (Archives de Neurologie 1896 No. 9. p. 253), Bekhterev (Review of Psychiatry 1896, No. 12; 1897 No. 1 and 8), Chigaev (Doctor 1897 30), Manheimer (La mdecine modern 1897 No. 8) published a whole series of observations in which the clinical picture of suffering is described in great detail and where its main features are already quite definite.

scholarly journals FRACKING: AN ENERGY DREAM COME TRUE OR AN ENVIRONMENTAL NIGHTMARE?

Obiter ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Lerm
Keyword(s):  
Hydraulic Fracturing ◽  
Social Development ◽  
The Other ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
To Come ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right

This article investigates the judicial approach the courts are likely to take when they are asked to decide whether hydraulic fracturing, otherwise known as “fracking”, is an acceptable technique or not. The main focus of this article is to investigate whether the legislation put in place is consistent with the constitutional provisions aimed at protecting, on the one hand, the right to a healthy environment, health and life, and on the other hand, the right to promoting justifiable economic and social development. What will be considered is where these rights are likely to come into conflict with each other and how the courts are likely to deal with the issue. Prefacing this discussion is a brief investigation into the nature of fracking; the legislation that will govern the process and the constitutional rights likely to be effected by the technique.

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