{"id":14478,"date":"2020-12-02T07:11:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-02T12:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=14478"},"modified":"2021-02-14T19:09:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T00:09:25","slug":"thinking-sex-with-alenka-zupancic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2020\/12\/02\/thinking-sex-with-alenka-zupancic\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Sex with Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/ctt.canterbury.ac.nz\/issues\/vol-2-issue-2-june-2018-thinking-sex-with-alenka-zupancic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continental Thought and Theory. Vol 2, Issue 2, August 2018<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Object-Disoriented Ontology; or, the Subject of <em>What Is Sex<\/em>?<br>Russell Sbriglia<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Can there be a serious materialism without the subject \u2014 that is, without a strong concept of the subject?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The subject names an object that is precisely <strong><em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-red-color\">not<\/span><\/em><\/strong> just an object among others\u201d is \u201cthe whole point.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subject \u201cis not simply an object among many objects, it is also the form of existence of the contradiction, antagonism, at work in the very existence of objects as objects \u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The subject exists among objects, yet it exists there as <strong>the point that gives access to a possible objectivation of their inner antagonism<\/strong>, its inscription into their reality.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And here we arrive at why the subject is both inextricable from and indispensable to Lacanian materialism: <strong><span class=\"has-inline-color has-bright-red-color\">the subject is \u201cnot simply the one who thinks,\u201d but who, above all, \u201cmakes certain contradictions accessible to thought,\u201d<\/span><\/strong> the one through which \u201cthese contradictions [in being] appear as a \u2018matter of thought.\u2019\u201d <strong>Subtract the \u201c\u2018matter of thought\u2019\u201d that is the subject, and \u201cit is difficult to speak of <em>materialism<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In short, <strong>the subject stands for the radical negativity<\/strong>, the radical out-of-jointness, of reality (in) itself, the hole in reality that renders being unwhole, disoriented \u2014 or, even better, like the topological figures Lacan was so fond of invoking (the torus, M\u00f6bius strip, cross-cap, Klein bottle, etc.), non-orientable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continental Thought and Theory. Vol 2, Issue 2, August 2018 Object-Disoriented Ontology; or, the Subject of What Is Sex?Russell Sbriglia Can there be a serious materialism without the subject \u2014 that is, without a strong concept of the subject? The subject names an object that is precisely not just an object among others\u201d is \u201cthe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2020\/12\/02\/thinking-sex-with-alenka-zupancic\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thinking Sex with Alenka Zupan\u010di\u010d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zizek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478","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=14478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14639,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14478\/revisions\/14639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}