{"id":11919,"date":"2013-09-16T12:17:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=11919"},"modified":"2013-09-16T13:48:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T18:48:26","slug":"keeping-it-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/09\/16\/keeping-it-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"keeping it simple"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. read the essay<\/li>\n
  2. edit it to something that can be read in 20 min<\/li>\n
  3. highlight issues of death drive<\/li>\n
  4. conclude<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Reminder to myself, I can kill 2 birds 1 stone. Edit this piece, afterall it can also be submitted to AG, whom I believe is not stringing me along, but this book is going to come out and I think he believes that my piece can make the final cut.\u00a0 But a lot of this is still way up in the air.<\/p>\n

    Ok. So the essay. I like the beginning, I’m willing now to equate ‘subjective destitution’ to the ‘death drive.’\u00a0Will it work?\u00a0 Why not?\u00a0 Yes the death drive is about the ‘unraveling of the subject’ the scrambling of subjective coordinates. It is, when all is said and done, becoming monstrous.<\/p>\n

    But of course the central point is: subjective destitution is not easy.\u00a0 There isn’t any manual.\u00a0 Z may give the impression it is about traversing the fantasy and engaging in a political Act, but of course, easier said than done.<\/p>\n

    And Butler speaks of ‘losing intelligibility’ of distressing any comfortable identity place setting.\u00a0 I seek to understand not only how one goes about disrupting these identity markers, but in sustaining an existence as monstrous as an ethical determination.<\/p>\n

    Undoneness is one adjective Butler uses to describe this state of being, “If I possess myself too firmly I cannot be in an ethical relation.” Holding on too firmly to the ego.<\/p>\n

    But nevertheless \u017d thinks Butler is too caught up in symbolic reconfigurations. And here is where I lay down the \u017d quote that takes Butler to task for simply defining the subject as limited, finite, incomplete etc “is the status of the subject always limited, dispossessed, exposed, or is the subject itself a name for\/of this dispossession?”<\/em><\/p>\n

    And then, it is here, from \u017di\u017eek that I will take the theme of the paper\/talk: the subject before subjectivization is the death drive. This subject that precedes interpellation\/subjectivization, is a positive force in itself, it is the infinite force of self-relating negativity, of loss and desire etc.<\/p>\n

    Now should I mention Bartleby as subject of death drive? The ethical subject prompts hysterical outbursts from others.\u00a0 I argue that Bartleby is an ethical subject of the death drive.<\/p>\n

    “Will I act in conformity to that which disjointed the coordinates of my very being?”<\/p>\n

    I still am liking this paper.\u00a0I want to include the \u017d story of the plane crash but that might be tasteless, hmm, and then there is my take on the algorithm in Groundhog Day<\/em>. Bill Murray hopes to seduce (that forgettable actress I forget her name), but fails because, as I argue, he doesn’t include but tries to circumvent the death drive.<\/p>\n

    The death drive is the failed interpellation, the subject is this failure of interpellation. This out of jointness of the subject with itself, the self-relating negativity is the death drive, and this death drive is constitutive of subjectivity.<\/p>\n

    I’m on page 20 of my paper. I just finished the introduction to objet a<\/em>. Now McGowan simply calls this the ‘lost object’ or ‘object of loss’. I kinda think in his last book that he could have theoretically laid out in a more rigorous fashion the correlation between the object of loss and objet a<\/em>. Anyway, I like this section. I’m going to have trouble in my talk squeezing what I want to say into 20 mins, plus making sound like a coherent whole, or that I have an underlying thesis. I have to look into this further. <\/p>\n

    There’s a good Daly quote near the end that reenforces my argument that the death drive is the way in which the subject refuses all claims of identity, refuses and thus re-writes his own coordinates in the symbolic. This is a personal event yes, but it can precipitate something bigger.
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    read the essay edit it to something that can be read in 20 min highlight issues of death drive conclude Reminder to myself, I can kill 2 birds 1 stone. Edit this piece, afterall it can also be submitted to AG, whom I believe is not stringing me along, but this book is going to … Continue reading “keeping it simple”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11937,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions\/11937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}