Monday, September 16, 2013
Saturday, September 7, 2013
The Invention of the Self
'For Foucault there is then a modern "asceticism of the dandy" who remains unsatisfied with his subjectivity-as-is (we might say with his life on the torus ("in the flux of passing moments")), and who thus "makes of his body, his behaviours, his feelings and passions, his very existence, a work of art.'
Michel Foucault's Ethics : Subjectivity and Truth
Simon O'Sullivan's On the Production of Subjectivity
'This self-invention arises from a decision made by the subject and a concomitant practice of living differently, against the norms of the world that such a subject is born in to (insofar as these norms tend to instigated by a transcendent enunciator, which again, in our own time, is Capital).'
Simon O'Sullivan's On the Production of Subjectivity
These quotations remind me of Kafka's short story "A Hunger Artist".
About Subjectivity
'Either an "I" that no longer has a world or a world that no longer has an "I"...'
Paulo Virno's A Grammar of the Multitude
"...Leaves us either too open to the world (schizophrenia), or, in reaction, too closed (neurosis/depression)." "...the twin extremes of neurosis -- being too closed to the world -- and psychosis -- being too open to it..."
Simon O'Sullivan's On the Production of Subjectivity
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