acephalous: without a head, lacking a governing head or chief<\/p>\n
\u017di\u017eek proposes as the properly political subject an “acephalous subject”<\/span> who assumes the position of the object”\u00a0\u00a0 [Organs Bodies 176 cited in Rothenberg 175]<\/p>\n In this move from desire<\/span> to drive<\/span>, he fundamentally alters the picture of a political subject as one who calculates an intervention to bring about the future it desires.\u00a0 175<\/p>\n The “acephalous subject”<\/span> does not function in this intentionalized mode of traditional political discourse: “the subject who acts is no longer a person but, precisely, an object.”<\/span> That is, in his view, we must give up, once and for all, our sense of the political \u2014 the political act, the political domain, and the political collectivity \u2014 as based on promise or calculation. 175<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" acephalous: without a head, lacking a governing head or chief \u017di\u017eek proposes as the properly political subject an “acephalous subject” who assumes the position of the object”\u00a0\u00a0 [Organs Bodies 176 cited in Rothenberg 175] In this move from desire to drive, he fundamentally alters the picture of a political subject as one who calculates an … Continue reading “rothenberg acephalous subject”<\/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":[83,111,125,24,15,20],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-8472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agency","category-desire","category-drive","category-lacan","category-subjectivity","category-zizek","tag-excessive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472","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=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8480,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions\/8480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}